Thursday, September 30, 2010

Differentiated Instruction

Differentiated Instruction or Personalized Education Plans

Every child gets instruction based on individual interest, learning preference, learning style, readiness level, ability, and preferred mode of learning, wow that's just to start. Wow is right, this may work for homeschoolers but may quickly diminish its effectiveness in a class of 34! One teacher with 34 students and they want quality differentiated instruction, classroom management, plus amazing test results! Is this goal impossible? Differentiated Instruction sounds like a wonderful theory or an Orwellian promise designed to keep teachers bouncing around like pinballs doing senseless retort with all students suffering mediocrity. I have a very simple educational philosophy "Teach to the TOP" and bring everyone along for the adventure, no matter the learning differences or learning style, all students benefit from a rich demanding curriculum. Individual interest, learning preference, learning style, readiness level, ability, a preferred mode of learning, is useless if you can't or won't participate in the learning! Sean Taylor M.Ed 

MY GOLDEN RULEs:
  1. Teach to the top
  2. Differentiated formative assessments
  3. Kagan cooperative learning 
  4. Micro-lectures, Brain Rules, and Whole Brain Teaching
  5. Keep the learning silly, novel, and absurd
RESOURCES FOR A Differentiated CLASSROOM Instruction and UDL.

Differentiated instruction and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) are two approaches that share some key similarities in how they aim to meet diverse learner needs, but they have some distinct differences as well.

Similarities:

- Flexible methods - Both differentiate instruction and UDL incorporate flexible means of teaching and assessing based on individual students' strengths, needs, and interests.

- Proactive design - Lessons and learning environments are intentionally planned to reduce barriers and optimize access to learning. 

- Student-centered - The learner is at the forefront, and their unique differences drive the design.

- Varied modalities -Presenting information and content through different mediums (visual, auditory, kinesthetic etc.) 

Differences:

- Origin - Differentiated instruction emerged from responding to individual differences in a classroom. UDL arose more from universal design and special education frameworks.

- Scope - Differentiation tends to focus changes at the classroom or lesson level. UDL looks at total curriculum design.

- Flexibility - In differentiated classrooms students may choose options, but the overall plan is still teacher-directed. UDL promotes more student self-directed flexibility.

- Materials - Differentiation uses varied materials suited to levels. UDL emphasizes multiple means of representation, action, and engagement for all.

- Assessment - Differentiation may use tailored assessments. UDLvalues multiple means of assessing that validate different ways to show knowledge.

While differentiated instruction makes adaptations for groups/individuals, UDL builds in options for all learners from the outset through completely flexible design.

West Virginia Department of Education
https://wvde.state.wv.us › osp › 7. UDL Guideli...

UDL Guidelines Checklist. Principle I. Provide Multiple Means of Representation. Guideline 1: Provide options for perception. Checkpoint 1.1 – Offer ways of ...8 pages


Montgomery County Public Schools
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org › udl

UDL Quick Guide – Lessons/Resources. 3/12 www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/hiat. UDL Checklist for Lessons and Resources. Mode. UDL Strategy. 2 pages

https://www.northampton.edu › documents › ece

Checklist for Early Childhood Environments ... Following is a UDL Checklist developed to guide early childhood ... For additional UDL related resources.6 pages


[PDF]Culturally Responsive Differentiated Instructional ... - NYU Steinhardt
The theory behind differentiated instruction is that teachers should vary and adapt their approaches to fit the vast diversity of students in the classroom. ... teachers, programs and resources. ..... Instruction/downloads/DI/7BuildingBlocksOfDI.pdf.

[PDF]The Nuts and Bolts of Differentiation - WKU
If we have a differentiated classroom, can it be fair? (What will. “fair” mean in ... ▫How do I organize materials and resources? ▫What are ... ey%29.pdf. ▫ Survival ...

[PDF]25 Quick Formative Assessments - Great Schools Partnership
Differentiating Instruction in Response to Formative Assessments . . . . . . . . 7. Formative .... more important than in a differentiated classroom, where students of all levels of readiness sit .... classroomresources to complete the task. □ Provide a ...

[PDF]Differentiating Instruction with Technology in K–5 Classrooms - ISTE
This excerpt provides an overview of differentiated instruction, and discusses the basic principles ... Our classrooms today are more diverse than ever, with a wide range of ..... masters, student activities, clip art, quizzes, and teacher resources. Conclusions .... http://newsroom.cdwg.com/features/2005NatlTeacherSurvey.pdf.

[PDF]Differentiating Instruction: Making It Happen in Classrooms
Those resources are important supports for teachers and admin- istrators who desire to understand the concept of differentiating instruction, and to identify.

[PDF]How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed-Ability Classrooms
 The Learning Environment in a Differentiated Classroom .

[PDF]Teaching Every Student: Five Key Elements - UC Davis Health
Special educators are the experts in differentiating instruction and creating ...


[DOC]Differentiated Instruction and Implications for UDL ... - CAST.org
The report concludes with a listing of Web resources for further information ... The variation seen in adifferentiated classroom is most frequently in the manner in ...

[PDF]Key Principles of a Differentiated Classroom - Orting School District
Differentiation is a teaching concept in which the classroom teacher plans for the ... and resourcesmore advanced than those commonly found at grade level, ...

[PDF]Differentiated Instruction - EduGAINS
It is just one of several resources in a multi-faceted professional learning strategy. ... A defining characteristic of a differentiated classroom is flexibility. Students ...

[PDF]Differentiation in action! - PDST
The resource aims to contextualise differentiation and to suggest a number of strategies to supportdifferentiated teaching and learning in the classroom.

[PDF]Reaching the Needs of All Learners - North Carolina Public School
Any given classroom will contain a heterogeneous mix of students with ... of differentiating the curriculum to meet the needs of all students, ... Resources. 4.

[PDF]The Differentiated Classroom - McCracken County Schools
The differentiated classroom : responding to the needs of all learners / Carol Ann .... resources, and myself so that I am an effective catalyst for maximizing talent ...

[PDF]Tiered Assignments In a differentiated classroom, a teacher uses ...
In a differentiated classroom, a teacher uses varied levels of tasks to ensure that ... Tiering can be based on challenge level, complexity, resources, outcome ...

[PDF]assessments - Somerset Academy
 more important than in a differentiated classroom, where students of all levels of readiness sit side .... classroom resources to complete the task.

[PDF]Responding to the Needs of All Learners - ASCD
Education Leaders as Catalysts for Differentiated Classrooms . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 .... ago: “How do I divide time, resources, and myself so that I am an effective.

[PDF]Websites and Apps That Support Differentiated Instruction - Heartland ..
Websites and Apps That Support Differentiated Instruction. Name ..... contains a mixture of classroom teaching resources and others .... color-illustrated PDF

2 comments:

  1. Differentiated instruction sounds amazing for students on paper but how do you make lesson plans that will actually meet the needs of all the students modalities, interest, abilities, learning styles, and readiness? It looks like you need five teachers for every child or a 50 hour school day to meet Differentiated Instruction philosophy.

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  2. 门门懂,样样瘟 ("All trades known, all trades dull")
    三脚猫 ("A cat with only 3 legs")
    万宝全书缺只角 ("樣樣通,樣樣鬆 ("All trades known, all trades dull")An encyclopedia with one corner missing")周身刀,無張利 ("Surrounded by knives, none are sharp")El que mucho abarca poco aprieta ("Who embraces too much, has a weak grasp").Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada ("Apprentice of everything, master of nothing").
    Un océano de conocimiento de una pulgada de profundidad ("An ocean of knowledge of an inch deep"). A todo le tiras, y a nada le pegas ("You shoot for everything, but you hit nothing"). همه‌کاره و هیچ‌کاره ("One tries to do everything, but is capable of doing nothing").Πολυτεχνίτης και ερημοσπίτης ("He who knows a lot of crafts lives in an empty house").

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