Differentiated Instruction

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Differentiated Instruction

• Purposeful response to
• diverse learners

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Differentiation is

• Pro-active educators plan a variety of ways to
  get at and express learning
• Qualitative teachers adjust the nature rather
  than the quantity of the assignment
• Rooted in Assessment Professional educators
  value using on-going informal assessment to
  refine instruction

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Differentiation is

• Student Centered learning experiences are
  engaging, relevant and rigorous
• Appropriately challenging
• Shared responsibility for learning and
  decision-making
• Organic Students and teachers learn together
• Multiple approaches to
• Content what students learn (input)
• Process how students make sense of ideas and
  information
• Product how students demonstrate what they have
  learned (output)

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• In a differentiated classroom, the teacher
  proactively plans and carries out varied
  approaches to content, process, and product in
  anticipation of and response to student
  differences in readiness, interest and learning
  profiles.

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Differentiation Is Not

• Individualized instruction
• Tracking
• Chaotic
• Quantity over quality