Differentiated Instruction

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Differentiated Instruction

• Projects and Activities

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Cooperative Learning Projects Teach a
Lesson

• Method of Instruction/ Retention Rates
• 90 by teaching others
• 75 by practicing skills
• 50 w/ Discussion Groups
• 30 with Demonstrations
• 20 with A-V
• 10 through reading
• 5 through lecture

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Teach a Lesson(Dos Taboos)

• Teacher should pre-select topics
• Specified Roles for Team Members
• Ex. Power Point Lesson Creator, Instructor,
  Peer-editor,
• Worksheet Creator /Assessor
• Teacher Selected Heterogenous Groups (By MI
  strengths, Gender etc. )

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Cooperative Learning Team Projects

• German 2 Travel Project Modal Verbs
• German 1 Project Verb Conjugation
• Each student organizes a 7 day Euro Trip
• For each day students will write 5 sentences
  describing their daytime activities using the
  desired learning skill (combines theory with
  real-life practice)

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Cooperative Learning Team Projects

• German 2 Clothing/Color Commercial or Fashion
  Show
• German 2 News Broadcast
• German 2 Class Newspaper
• German Real Life Role Plays
• (Ex. Restaurant etc.)

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Individual MI Projects(Students present
using their MI Strengths)

• German 2 Dream House Project
• (15 word picture label / 50 word essay)
• German 1Family Tree/Personal Adj Project
• (30 word family member description)
• Inspiration Software Program (Mapping)

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Cooperative Learning Activities

• Student-centered instructional approach that
  integrates social skills objectives with academic
  content objectives
• Produces higher-level reasoning, greater transfer
  learning and more frequent generation of new
  solutions
• Slavin found in a four week study that 63 of
  students found greater achievement with
  cooperative learning and 33 found no change.
  Only 3 of the 52 studies had lower achievement

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Numbered Heads Together

• Teammates work together to ensure all members
  understand one is randomly selected to answer
• Improves Mastery and Thinking Skills
• (Higher Order Blooms Compare/Contrast)
• Ex. Compare and Contrast School Systems
• (TopicCulture, Summarizing Reading Comp)
• Social Skills Patience, Respect, Active
  Listening, Asking for Help
• Borbas 7 Core Principals of Moral Intelligence
• Empathy,Conscience,Self-control,Respect,
  Kindness, Tolerance, Fairness
• McDevitt80 of knowledge /active listening

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Showdown

• Students answer questions without help. Teams
  then check and coach.
• (Mini-Dry Erase Boards/Power Point are great !)
• Topics Verb Conjugation, Geography, Vocabulary
  (Time Expressions/Family)
• Power Point Topic Question Words
• ____wohnst du ? (____ do you live ?)
• Teams check, coach, give answer

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Spend-A-Buck

• Students select one alternative from many using
  imaginary dollars or coins
• Great with Power Point /Grammar Topics (adjective
  endings, verb conjugation, definite articles,
  indefinite articles)
• Ex. Modal Verb Conjugation
• Du ________________ gut spielen !

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German Class Notes (Bell Ringer and Exit
Visas)

• Bell Ringer (Open Activity) assesses a students
  prior knowledge
• Exit Visa (Closure Activity) assesses in
  students own words what was learned
• Benefits Keeps students focused on lesson/
  organized (Marzano High Yield Strategy
  Note-taking and Summarizing)
• Organized German Class Notes help level the
  playing field for IEP students etc. and give all
  students the opportunity to be successful