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Differentiated Instruction 101
  • Clare Kilbane, Ph. D.
  • ckilbane_at_otterbein.edu
  • http//www.otterbein.edu/home/fac/ckilbane/stateco
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Goals for this presentation
  • To ensure that all participants members have
    exposure to a common core of knowledge,
    vocabulary, and strategies.
  • Participants will
  • Understand what differentiated instruction is and
    why it is important,
  • Learn how technology can support the goals of
    differentiated instruction, and
  • Expand the tools they have available to make
    instruction more efficient, effective, and
    engaging for all learners.

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Todays classrooms are typified by academic
diversity (Darling-Hammond, Wise, Klein, 1999,
Meier, 1995).
  • Seated side-by-side in classrooms are
  • highly advanced learners,
  • English language learners,
  • students who are chronically underachievers,
  • students with learning disabilities and reading
    difficulties,
  • students of both genders,
  • students from broadly diverse cultures,
  • students from highly diverse SES, and
  • students displaying varying levels of motivation,
    interests, skills, etc.

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Thinking about English Language Learners
  • More immigrants arrived in the late 1990s than in
    any other decade on record
  • Today, students in our schools speak more than
    450 languages
  • More than 12 of all pre-k-12 students are
    considered to be ESL learners
  • By the year 2015 more than 50 of all students in
    K-12 public schools across the US will not speak
    English as their first language.
  • Gray, T. and Fleishcman, S. (2004). Successful
    strategies for English Language Learners,
    Educational Leadership, 62 (4), 84-85.

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Thinking about Students with Disabilities
  • 96 of general education teachers have students
    with disabilities in their classrooms.
  • On average, there are at least 3-4 students with
    IEPs integrated into each general education
    class.
  • Three of four students with disabilities spend
    40 or more of their day in general education
    classrooms.
  • US Department of Education (2001). 23rd report to
    Congress on the implementation of the Individuals
    with Disabilities Act (IDEA). Washington, DC. US
    Govt Printing Office.

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What is differentiation?
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Some definitions
  • Differentiation is teaching so that typical
    students students with disabilities, students
    who are gifted, and students from a range of
    cultural, ethnic, and language groups can learn
    together, well. Not just inclusion but inclusive
    teaching.

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  • Differentiation means that teachers proactively
    plan varied approaches to what students learn,
    how they will learn it and/or how they will
    demonstrate their learning in order to ensure
    that every student learns as much as he/she can
    as efficiently as possible.

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  • Differentiation is classroom practice that looks
    eyeball to eyeball with the reality that kids
    differ, and the most effective teachers do
    whatever it takes to hook the whole range of kids
    on learning.

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  • Differentiation doesnt suggest that a teacher
    can be all things to all students all the time.
    It does however mandate that a teacher create a
    responsible range of approaches to learning much
    of the time so that most students find learning a
    fit much of the time.

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What is Differentiated Instruction?
  • It is an instructional approach
  • It is a community
  • It is a new way of doing old things

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What can be differentiated?
  • Content- the standards about which students
    interact to gain knowledge.
  • Process- the activities and materials engaged
    in/with while knowledge is gained.
  • Evaluation- the methods through which students
    demonstrate their learning.

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What do we consider when differentiating?
  • Readiness- a combination of ability and other
    factors which influence the ability to learn.
  • Interest- that which evokes intellectual,
    psychological, and emotional attention.
  • Learning Profile- a blanket term that refers to
    factors not related to readiness or interest such
    as cognitive style.

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How does technology support differentiation?
  • To learn more,
  • http//www.otterbein.edu/home/fac/ckilbane/stateco
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