Differentiationwith

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What is it?

Differentiated instruction is based on the

assumptions that students differ in their

learning styles, needs, strengths, and abilities,

and that classroom activities should be adapted

to meet these differences (McCue, 2012).

What does this mean?

Differentiation means tailoring the instruction

to meet individual needs. The use of ongoing

assessment and flexible grouping makes this a

successful approach to instruction (McCue,

2012).

Ways to Differentiate

Content Process Product

In Response to Students’

Readiness Interests Learning Profile

Content-What is taught

•Using reading materials at varying readability levels

•Putting text materials on tape

•Using spelling or vocabulary lists at readiness levels of students

•Presenting ideas through both auditory and visual means

•Using reading buddies

•Meeting with small groups to re-teach an idea or skill for

struggling learners, or to extend the thinking or skills of advanced

learners (Tomlinson, 2000).

Process-How it is taught

•Using tiered activities through which all learners work with the same

important understandings and skills, but proceed with different levels of

support, challenge, or complexity.

•Providing interest centers that encourage students to explore subsets of

the class topic of particular interest to them.

•Offering manipulatives or other hands-on supports for students who need

them.

•Varying the length of time a student may take to complete a task, in order

to provide additional support for a struggling learner or to encourage an

advanced learner to pursue a topic in greater depth (Tomlinson, 2000).

Product: How it is assessed

•Giving students options of how to express required learning (e.g.,

create a puppet show, write a letter, or develop a mural with

labels).

•Using rubrics that match and extend students’ varied skills levels.

We differentiate in response to:

•Student readiness

•Student interests

•Student learning style

•Multiple intelligences

•Success for all students

•What is practical and what is doable

Strategies for differentiation

Response boardsFour CornersExit TicketsDo NowsDQ’sJigsawWait Time

Think-Pair-ShareGraphic OrganizersRAFT3-2-1Hot SeatWise Sages

Strategies for differentiation

Choice BoardsStrategic GroupingPBI/PBLFlipped ClassroomsLearning Contracts

Google Apps

DriveDocs

PresentationsSpreadsheets & Forms

Google Drive

Drive

Why use it?● Serves as an Internet based flash drive with sharing

capabilities.

How to use it?● Share resources with students and parents.

● Student group work that teacher can monitor.

● Folders for collaboration across class or groups.

○ Ways to organize teaching and student data.

How do I use Drive?● Uploading files

● Organizing files

● Settings

● Converting files

● Sharingo Groups

o Permissions

● Creating

Folders

● How to create folders

● Naming folders

● How to share folders

● Share settings

How to use folders

● Writing folders

○ Ways to set up folders

● Group projects

● Linking resources to Social Media

● Teacher lesson plan resource

● Student writing portfolios

Google Docs

Google Docs

● Why use it?

● Docs is similar to Microsoft Word in that

it is a word processing program. However,

it has several strengths over Microsoft.○ Collaboration

○ Revision history review capabilities

● Internet based○ No more "It is at home, or so and so is sick and it

is in their locker."

How to use Docs

● A tour

● Uploading an existing document

● Creating a doc

● Renaming

● Sharing

● Templates

● Downloading

Google Docs Ideas● Lesson plan collaboration

● Class notes

● Meeting minutes

● Peer editing

● Publishing student work

● Student collaborative writing

● Letter translation for parents

● Teacher document collaboration

● Student journals

Google Docs Templates

● Collaborative notetaking: Jigsaw Template

● Peer review papers: AP Psychology Essay

Peer Edit Rubric

● AP Psychology essay prompt from

APCentral.collegeboard.com Essay Prompt

● Learning Team Charter: Charter

● Lesson Plan Template: Template

Google Presentations

Why use Google Presentations?

● Increases productivity in student group projects.

● Presentations can be easily shared with others.

○ Student to teacher (Submit)

○ Student to student (Collaboration)

○ Teacher to student (Missed work & for

facilitation of notetaking)

○ Teacher to teacher (Collaboration)

Google Presentation take aways

Chalkboard Template

Google Spreadsheets &

Forms

Google Spreadsheets & Forms

Forms is an excellent app for collecting data on any

topic. Questions can be created in several formats:

● Text

● Paragraph

● Choose from a list

● Checkboxes

● Multiple Choice

● Scale

● Grid

Spreadsheets ideas

● Sign-up sheets

● Data collection

Forms ideas● Sign-up sheets

● Data collection

● Formative & summative assessments

o Flubaroo

o Form emailer

● Surveys

● Rubrics

● Online reading records

● Collecting any data

● Book review

● Reflection or debriefing

● Exit ticket

● Flipped Lessons

Spreadsheets & Forms Take AwaysAP Sample Essay Rubric

Rubric for Oral Presentation

Group Peer Evaluation

Credibility Form

Team Work Log

Weekly Reflection

Book Review

Google Apps and Technology Lesson Ideas

Sample Flipped Lesson

ToolsSitesCalendarGroupsGoogle +HangoutsEffective searchingURL Shortener &QR Code

Resources

20 Essential Keyboard Shortcuts

10 Tips for Better Google Search Results

Common Core Website

Search TipsQuotation Marks: Use quotes to search for an exact word or phrase. This

is useful for searching for quotes.

Dashes: Put a dash before a word you want to exclude from a search.

Tilde: Use a tilde (~) before a term to include its synonyms.

Site:query: Use site: to search within a specific website.

Link:query: Use link: to search for sites that link to the specified site url.

Two periods: Use two periods between two numbers to express a range.

Related:query: Use related: to find sites that are related to the specified

site.

Resources

20 Essential Keyboard Shortcuts

10 Tips for Better Google Search Results

Common Core Website

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References

McCue, D. V. (2012, May 08). The Differentiation Dilemma. Retrieved

August 8, 2014, from http://www.articlesbase.com/education-articles/the-differentiation-dilemma-5887775.html

Tomlinson, C.A. (2000). What Is Differentiated Instruction?. Retrieved

January 23, 2015, from http://www.readingrockets.org/article/what-differentiated-instruction

•Teachers can differentiate at least four

classroom elements based on student readiness,

interest, or learning profile:

•Content

•Process

•Product

•Learning environment

•Consideration of student differences

•Use of assessment

•Use of student interests and learning styles

•Instructional format

•Assignment options

•Factors guiding instruction