| Description |
1 online resource (295 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1 One-Size-Fits-All? You've Got to Be Kidding! -- Differentiation: What Is It? -- To Differentiate Or Not: The Big Question -- Reasons Teachers Don't Differentiate -- Time -- Resources -- Limited Preparation -- Few Role Models -- Concerns With Classroom Management -- "Advanced Students Will Be Fine" Myth -- Lack of Administrators' Knowledge of Or Support for Differentiating -- Reasons to Differentiate -- Continuous Progress -- Productive Use of Student Time -- Stimulating to the Brain |
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Fairness and Equity -- Not Differentiating: Missed Opportunities -- Differentiation Ties to Assessment -- Key Questions Leading to Differentiation -- What Differentiation Adds to the Classroom -- Who Benefits From Differentiated Learning Experiences and How? -- Chapter 2 Multiple Ways to Define Academic Success: What Resonates With You? -- Strategies to Enhance Academic Success -- Underachievement: The Problem From Limited Challenge -- Growth Mindset: Believing You Can Develop Your Talents and Abilities -- An Important Question for Educators and Parents -- Concluding Comments |
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Chapter 3 Climate: Creating a Comfort Zone -- Climate of Differentiation -- Diversity and Equity -- High Expectations -- Openness and Flexibility -- Climate Matters for Learning and Creativity -- Concluding Thoughts -- Chapter 4 Content: Complex, Engaging, and Relevant -- Universal Themes -- Why Use Universal Themes? -- Other Themes -- Complex Content -- Complexity of Content -- Complexity of Process -- Engaging Content -- Relevant Content -- Standards-based Content -- Culturally Responsive Content -- Intellectual Character -- Concluding Thoughts -- Chapter 5 Preassessment: An Absolute Necessity |
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Planning: The Necessary Step Before Preassessment -- Preassessment -- The Importance of Record Keeping -- What Students Need to Know Before You Preassess -- Preassessment as a Time Saver (Really!) -- Preassessment Strategies -- Existing Data -- End-of-the-Previous-Unit Assessment -- End-of-the-Unit Assessment -- T-W-H and K-W-L Charts -- Mind Map -- Most Difficult First -- Open-Ended Question Or Questions -- Venn Diagram -- Interest and Experience Inventory -- Frayer Model -- Ready for Differentiation -- Chapter 6 Tiering to Facilitate Continuous Progress -- Tiering: A Familiar Example |
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Levels of Readiness, Interests, and Strengths -- Content: What Students Must Know, Understand, And/or Be Able to Do -- Process: What Students Must Be Able to Do Cognitively -- Product: How Students Will Demonstrate Or Show What They Have Learned -- Concluding Thoughts -- Chapter 7 Tiering Learning Experiences With Bloom's Taxonomy -- How Can Bloom's Taxonomy Be Used to Tier Assignments? -- A Critical Caveat -- What Does Tiering Look Like Using Bloom? -- When Do I Use It? -- Tiering to Differentiate Learning Experiences -- In-Class Activity -- Centers -- Unit Assessment |
| Summary |
"This updated edition of Strategies for Differentiating Instruction offers practical approaches that allow all students to make continuous progress and be appropriately challenged by focusing on their various levels of knowledge and readiness to learn. Written in an accessible, teacher-friendly style, chapters explore methods to tier learning experiences so that all students' unique learning needs are met. The new edition updates the strategies complete with student examples and provides Developing and Assessing Products (DAP) tools for a variety of products as reproducible appendices. Full of research-supported examples and designed specifically for teachers who are new to differentiated instruction, this book offers vetted, practical advice for preassessing students, implementing differentiation strategies, and managing and assessing student learning. This new edition is a must read for teachers seeking to master the essentials on how to differentiate instruction and address all students' needs, interests, and abilities"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Optional Learning Experiences |
| Subject |
Individualized instruction.
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Mixed ability grouping in education.
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Individualized instruction
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Mixed ability grouping in education
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Inman, Tracy Ford
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| ISBN |
9781000827354 |
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1000827356 |
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