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Making Instruction Work
Berkeley County School District
“to challenge and empower our students to be successful in a highly competitive world.”
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"All learning pivots on who we think we are, and who we see ourselves as capable of becoming." Frank Smith
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Goals
• Who are our students?• What are some strategies for differentiating
instruction?• What are strategies for flexible grouping and
what does it look like?
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What would you say if someone told you I want to respond to your child’s talents and needs and provide an education that maximizes his or her potential?
The Learner
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Vision of Students Today
http://www.schooltube.com/video/5c5e1e9018d00997a574/A-Vision-of-K12-Students-Today
Carol Ann Tomlinson, Ed. D.
Misunderstanding about Differentiation
• Differentiation is a set of instructional strategies.
• It’s adequate for a district or school leader to tell or even show, teachers how to differentiate instruction effectively.
• Differentiation is something a teachers does or doesn’t do. “I already do that!”
• Differentiation is just about instruction.
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Best Practices that “fit” differentiation
• The use of assessment to inform instruction
• Response to Intervention• Teaching for understanding• Higher order thinking• Flexible grouping• Challenge and accountability• Acceleration – yes, acceleration!
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Forrest Lake Elementary School, Columbia, SC
Flexible Grouping
Group One- Teacher directed
Group 2-Shared reading with audio support
Group 3-Scaffold activity with reading (must finish group 2 activity)
Group FourInquiry/research at computers
Group FiveSkill focus- Promethean BoardAnother activity
Group SixWriting Workshop or independent read.
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Literary Luminary Summarizer
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Technology Tools for Differentiated Instruction
• VoiceThread– Letters from the Internment Camp– There is a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom
• PhotoStory 3/Movie Maker– Green Eggs and Ham– The BFG
• PodCast- Audacity (Ask help desk)– This I Believe-Temple Grandin
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"All learning pivots on who we think we are, and who we see ourselves as capable of becoming." Frank Smith
Discussion Groups
• What does differentiation look like in your classroom?
• How can you begin to address the needs of all learners in your classroom?
• What implications does differentiated instruction have on you as a teacher?
• Where do we begin?
Credits
• http://www.caroltomlinson.com/• Leading and Managing a Differentiated Classroom by
Carol Ann Tomlinson and Marcia Imbeau• The Differentiated Classroom by Carol Ann Tomilinson• Sir Ken Robinson: Differentiated Teaching• Differentiated Instruction Ignites Elementary School Le
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• A Vision of Students Today by Michael Wesch• http://www.edutopia.org/