
Strategies for Differentiating Instruction
Best Practices for the Classroom
- 284 pages
- English
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Strategies for Differentiating Instruction
Best Practices for the Classroom
About this book
This updated edition of Strategies for Differentiating Instruction offers practical approaches that allow all students to make continuous progress and be appropriately challenged by focusing on their various levels of knowledge and readiness to learn.
Written in an accessible, teacher-friendly style, chapters explore methods to tier learning experiences so that all students' unique learning needs are met. The new edition updates the strategies complete with student examples and provides Developing and Assessing Products (DAP) tools for a variety of products as reproducible appendices. Full of research-supported examples and designed specifically for teachers who are new to differentiated instruction, this book offers vetted, practical advice for preassessing students, implementing differentiation strategies, and managing and assessing student learning.
This new edition is a must read for teachers seeking to master the essentials on how to differentiate instruction and address all students' needs, interests, and abilities.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsement
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 One-Size-Fits-All? You’ve Got to Be Kidding!
- Chapter 2 Multiple Ways to Define Academic Success: What Resonates With You?
- Chapter 3 Climate: Creating a Comfort Zone
- Chapter 4 Content: Complex, Engaging, and Relevant
- Chapter 5 Preassessment: An Absolute Necessity
- Chapter 6 Tiering to Facilitate Continuous Progress
- Chapter 7 Tiering Learning Experiences With Bloom’s Taxonomy
- Chapter 8 Tiering With Venn Diagrams
- Chapter 9 Think-Tac-Toe: An Effective Tool for Tiering
- Chapter 10 Managing the Differentiated Classroom
- Chapter 11 Taming the Assessment Beast
- Chapter 12 Reflection: An Essential Practice for Lifelong Learning
- Chapter 13 A Differentiation Fable: Fable Contributed by Mandy Simpson
- References
- Appendix A: What a Child Doesn’t Learn …: By Tracy Inman
- Appendix B: Directions for Activity: How Do You Learn It?
- Appendix C: My Way … An Expression Style Inventory
- Appendix D: Interest Inventory
- Appendix E: Bloom Chart Template
- Appendix F: Venn Diagrams
- Appendix G: Letters and Boxes
- Appendix H: Think-Tac-Toe Template
- Appendix I: Developing and Assessing Products (DAP) Tools
- Appendix J: Building Support for Differentiation: Hard But Not Impossible to Do Alone
- About the Authors