Getting Started with Differentiating Instruction

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Getting Started with Differentiating Instruction

• Presented by
• Julee Dredske

Updated 4-09
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The Undifferentiated Animal School WE ALL MUST
DO THE SAME THING!
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People Bingo

• Pre-assessment combined with a bit of fun!

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The Roads Pre assessment

• Dirt Pathred
• Unpaved Country Roadorange
• Paved Highwayyellow
• Superhighwaygreen
• Jet Planeblue

• What is the purpose of the roads activity?
• How can I use it to drive my instruction?
• Could this be used with students?

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Jelly Bean or Beach Ball Activity

• REDShare methods you may use to pre-assess what
  your students know on a given topic.
• PURPLE or BLUEShare one way you make
  accommodations to students who are struggling or
  gifted learners.
• GREENDescribe formative and summative
  assessment? (If you dont know, fake it.)
• ORANGEShare something you might do in your class
  to serve a gifted and talented student?
• YELLOWRecall as many levels as you can of
  Blooms Taxonomy.
• PINK or WHITEDescribe at least five product
  choices for a unit on Civil War

Would this work?
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Other ways you Pre-Assess for Readiness

• Pre-Tests
• Yes/No Cards
• Thumb It
• Fist to Five
• Observation
• K-W-L charts

Take one minute and talk with an elbow partner on
other methods you have used to pre assess your
students. Share new ideas!
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What da ya know?

• With someone near you
• Share your answers to questions on pre
  assessment.
• How did you do?

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Define Differentiation

• Find your 300 partner
• Review the five definitions that are provided on
  page 3. What common words or phrases are in the
  definitions.

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What is Differentiation?

• The process of teaching and learning that begins
  with the premise that not all students are alike.
  Based on the readiness, learning preferences and
  interests of the student, it requires you to vary
  your approach and make adjustments to give
  students access to multiple paths to the same
  goals or outcomes. Differentiation meets each
  students where he/she is and maximizes the
  opportunity for success.

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Differentiation Serves all Students
Maximize Opportunity to Learn
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If a child cant learn the way we teach, maybe we
should teach the way the child learns. --Ignacio
Estrada
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• At this moment in history, it would seem more
  essential . . . To make a clear statement of will
  and policy to ensure that we raise the ceiling of
  performance as fervently as we raise the floors.
• --Carol Ann Tomlinson 2002

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When we dont differentiate . . .

• My biggest challenge is not to let my grades
  slip, which is tempting to do, because the work
  involves things I already know.
• --Gifted and Talented Student

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It is Responsive Teaching vs.
One Size Fits All
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Good bye cookie cutter . . .
Hello, Shaking it Up!
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• Test results are more important than excitement
  about learning.
• --Alfie Kohn

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The desired outcome
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The Big Picture

• Concept Map for Differentiated Instruction
• Key Terms

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DI Underlying Assumptions

• With your group, complete the underlying
  assumptions activity.

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Differentiated Instruction is a journey, not a
destination.