Advanced Differentiated Instruction

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Advanced Differentiated Instruction

• Session 2 Some Useful Tools for Differentiated
  Instruction

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The TOOLS

• Blooms Taxonomy
• Gardners MI
• Tomlinsons Equalizer
• Concept-based teaching

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Can you come up with concepts that relate to
these topics?

• Topic Concept
• American Revolution ?
• Dinosaurs ?
• Parts of speech ?
• Plants ?
• Charlottes Web ?
• Money ?

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Connecting concepts to add complexity

• What is the relationship between patterns and
  growth?
• Is there a connection between survival and
  change? What is it?
• How about between interdependence and progress?

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Which tools are at work here?

• Studying deserts
• Group 1 Write about the way animals and plants
  survive in the desert.
• Group 2 Draw pictures showing how people survive
  in the desert.

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• Some probability
• Task 1 How many different outfits can you make
  with the following red shirt, blue shirt, white
  shirt, blue jeans, and khaki pants?
• Task 2 How many types of cupcakes can you make
  with the following chocolate and yellow batter
  strawberry, white, and caramel icing and green
  and blue sprinkles?
• Task 3 How many schedules are possible with the
  following options? 1st period art, chorus or
  band 2nd period technology or creative writing
  3rd period German, Spanish, French or Latin.

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• An example from Technology class
• Assignment 1 Create a 3-page informational site
  using color, style, headers, GIF files, and HTML
  files. You must use pull down menus, tables, and
  links.
• Assignment 2 Create a commercial site for a real
  company or for a hypothetical one. You must
  include appropriate links and must demonstrate
  the use of HTML and java script. Follow the
  guidelines for successful e-commerce.

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How might we use the tools to modify the
following tasks?

• Using information provided in your textbook, draw
  a map that shows the climate regions of the US.
• Create a picture dictionary of compound words.
• Write a set of directions that shows how to find
  the equation of a line when given a graph.

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Topics addressed during this course

• Some useful tools for differentiating
  instruction
• Curriculum Compacting
• Independent study
• Think-Tac-Toes