Differentiated Instruction

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Differentiated Instruction

• Bookends
• Beginning and Ending a Lesson

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Entrance / Exit Cards

• a "low prep" strategy
• gathers information about
• academic readiness
• degree of mastery attained after a learning
  experience

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Entrance Cards

• Used prior to beginning a lesson
• Used to assess prior knowledge / experience /
  questions
• Misunderstandings about the concept
• Helps a teacher determine where to begin the
  lesson
• Can inform initial groupings of students.

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Entrance Cards

• Students are asked to complete a question on an
  "entrance card.
• Cards collected for fast analysis

What is irony? Give me an example
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Entrance Cards
Irony is the implied discrepancy between what is
said and what is meant. It is ironic that you ask
because we studied this last year with Ms.
Jones."
What is the difference between verbal irony and
dramatic irony?
Irony is the title of a song by Alanis
Morrissette
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Exit Cards

• Used at the end of a lesson.

Sally was absent from school today. Briefly
describe what she missed in our lesson about
simple machines and the force needed to do work.
Give her some examples so she will be ready to
go tomorrow when she returns
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Exit Cards

• The teacher can quickly determine
• which students achieved the intended objective
• which students may require some additional
• re-teaching on the essential concept(s)
• Advantage of the entrance/exit card strategy
• the short amount of time required to prepare the
  materials
• the short amount of time required to analyze the
  data collected

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Sponge Activities

• FACT Not everyone learns at the same pace.
• Sponge activities offer enrichment and deeper
  meaning to the learners who finish early.

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Sponge Activities

• Purposeful, worthwhile activities
• Deepen student understanding of content
• Enrich the skills students need to deepen
  understanding
• Self-directed
• Relatively short
• Easy to pick up or put down

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Sponge Activities

• May include
• extended content
• related content
• additional practice activities
• new applications of material that students have
  learned

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Sponge Activity Examples

• Language Arts
• Reflection journals
• sharing what they have learned.
• personalizing the material
• "How do you feel about what you have read?"
• "What was most interesting to you about what you
  read and why?"

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Sponge Activity Examples

• Biology
• Create a game to play that reinforces the layman
  versus scientific names of human bones (e.g.,
  femur/thigh bone).
• Other students can then use the game for review
  during another sponge activity.

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Sponge Activity Examples

• Foreign Language
• Listening centers
• Students listen to audio / video recordings in
  the content language and answer the questions on
  a worksheet.

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Sponge Activity Examples

• History
• Create a Constitution for this class
• Include what you think are the five most
  important rules.
• Decorate it to make it look like an antique.
• Develop five interview questions and answers for
  one of the delegates to the Constitutional
  Convention. The questions must be about
• the development of the Constitution
• the specific feelings of that delegate
• relationships between that delegate and other
  delegates.
• View the virtual tours of Independence Hall in
  Philadelphia and the House of Representatives in
  Washington, D.C.
• Compare the two environments.
• Describe how the physical environment might
  affect the decision making then and now.

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Bell Ringers

• In order to learn the person must be focused on
  the task
• Bell ringers are used to
• focus the learner.

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Bell Ringers

• Are in place so the learner can begin immediately
• Short
• Self-directed
• Content based
• Question
• Definition
• Calculation
• Opinion

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Bell Ringers

• Great Graphs Builds graph reading skills
• Collect from newspapers and magazines a variety
  of graphs. (The major news magazines are good
  sources the USA Today newspaper is another
  excellent source.) You might laminate the graphs
  so you can use them over and over.
• Hand each student a graph and a sticky note.
• Have them write on the sticky note one fact they
  did not know that they learned from the graph.

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Bell Ringers

• Analogy Puzzles
• Good SAT / ACT / PSSA activity. Have students
  share their responses and the reasoning behind
  them. Correct responses are shown in bold italic
  type.
• 1. Four is to rectangle as three is to _____. a.
  tricycle b. octagon c. square d. triangle
  2. Century is to 100 as decade is to _____.a.
  10 b. dollar c. era d. period 3. Edison is
  to light bulb as Gutenberg is to _____. a.
  newspaper b. rocket c. telephone d. printing
  press

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Managing Sponge / Bell Ringer Activities

• Students must be held accountable for completion
  of sponge / bell ringer activities.
• Points
• Random check
• Peer review
• Checklist
• Rubric
• Student / teacher conference
• Etc.

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• Diversity is the one true thing we all have in
  common.
• 
  Anonymous