Differentiation
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Diane Ravitch defines differentiating instruction as a form of instruction that seeks to "maximize each student's growth by recognizing that students have different ways of learning, different interests, and different ways of responding to instruction. "In practice, it involves offering several different learning experiences in response to students' varied needs. Educators may vary learning activities and materials by difficulty, so as to challenge students at different readiness levels; by topic, in response to students' interests; and by students' preferred ways of learning or expressing themselves" (p. 75).
This website provides resources for differentiated instruction.
Access: Differentiation Central
This infographic summarizes differentiation. See the full-size infographic.
The Intellectual Life of Teachers by Rick Wormeli.
Learning Point Associates shared this article in February, 2009, addressing what differentiated instruction is - and is not.
Access: A Look at Differentiating Instruction - Tips for Teachers
This booklet provides provide teachers with ideas and strategies to incorporate into their subject areas. The suggestions are not intended to add additional steps to their content; rather these suggestions are simply ways for content teachers to meet the diverse needs of the students they connect with each and every day in their classrooms.
Access: On Target: Strategies that Differentiate Learning - Grades 4-12
Patient and Tenacious Teaching by Rick Wormeli
Access: Patient and Tenacious Teaching
Carol Ann Tomlinson shares how standards-based instruction and differentiated learning can be compatible approaches in today's classrooms.
Access: Reconcilable Differences? Standards-Based Teaching and Differentiation
- Can Skateboarding Save Education by Dr. Tae
- Classroom Showdown: Traditional vs Differentiated
- Differentiated Instruction
- Differentiated Reading Instruction with Carol Ann Tomlinson
- Differentiation and the Brain with Carol Ann Tomlinson
- New Teacher Survival Guide - Differentiated Instruction
- Rick Workmeli - On Late Work
- Rick Wormeli - Redo's, Retakes, and Do Overs - Part I
- Tips and Strategies for Differentiated Instruction
- Two Misconceptions about Differentiation - Carol Ann Tomlinson
- What Is Differentiated instruction
Peter DeWitt seeks to answer with differentiation the question, "Is watching students struggle because their needs are not being met easier than differentiating?"