Differentiated Instruction

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Differentiated Instruction
Fitting the Lesson to the Learner
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Differentiated Instruction
Why Differentiated Instruction makes sense in a
Middle School Setting
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The National Middle School Association believes
that successful schools for young adolescents
provide the following
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The National Middle School Association believes
that successful schools for young adolescents
provide the following

• Curriculum that is relevant, challenging,
  integrative, and exploratory

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The National Middle School Association believes
that successful schools for young adolescents
provide the following

• Curriculum that is relevant, challenging,
  integrative, and exploratory
• Multiple learning and teaching approaches that
  respond to their diversity.

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The National Middle School Association believes
that successful schools for young adolescents
provide the following

• Curriculum that is relevant, challenging,
  integrative, and exploratory
• Multiple learning and teaching approaches that
  respond to their diversity.
• Assessment and evaluation programs that support
  quality learning.

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Relevant

• Curriculum is relevant when it allows students
  to pursue answers to questions they have about
  themselves, content and the world. . Student
  generated questions may lead to more demanding
  study, particularly when the prescribed
  curriculum is too often preoccupied with answers
  to questions young adolescents never ask.

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Challenging

• Using their good judgment in consultation with
  students, teachers select ideas for in-depth
  study from the vast range of information and
  materials that are genuinely important and worth
  knowing. .Both the content and methods must be
  diversified and individualized.

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Integrative

• Curriculum is integrative when it helps students
  to make sense of their lives and the world around
  them and when students learn how to make
  significant, meaningful decisions about their
  learning. .Middle level schools must provide
  experiences, courses and units that are
  specifically designed to be integrative for that
  is how young adolescents learn best.

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Exploratory

• The Middle School is a finding place.
  Exploration is an attitude and an approach, not a
  classification of content.

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Characteristics of Successful Teachers of
Differentiated Instruction

• Rick Wormeli Meet Me in the Middle

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Characteristics of Successful Teachers of
Differentiated Instruction
Risk Taking We should not be afraid to
innovate, experiment, confront, dump sacred
lessons, or reach out to others in an effort to
improve our practice.

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Characteristics of Successful Teachers of
Differentiated Instruction
. Empathetic Try to experience the lesson from
the perspective of your student.

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Characteristics of Successful Teachers of
Differentiated Instruction
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Organized Organization helps us be more
creative, flexible, impulsive and confident.

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Characteristics of Successful Teachers of
Differentiated Instruction
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Flexible If its not working then drop it and
try something else. Successful Middle school
teachers respond to the teachable moment instead
of being glued to the lesson plan.

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Characteristics of Successful Teachers of
Differentiated Instruction
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Tenacious They set rigorous goals and show
students how to reach them. They know that hard
work is motivating as long as students consider
it important.

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Characteristics of Successful Teachers of
Differentiated Instruction
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Fleet of Foot Teachers who use differentiated
instruction effectively take whatever steps are
necessary to make ideas clear to their students.

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Characteristics of Successful Teachers of
Differentiated Instruction
Resourceful Such teachers have an ever-ending
repertoire of instructional strategies. They are
aware of the differences in learners and they
know how to engage them. They never stop looking
for new ideas.
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Characteristics of Successful Teachers of
Differentiated Instruction
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Able to Collaborate They know they make better
decisions in collaboration with others than they
would if they acted alone.

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Differentiated Instruction in the Classroom

• Many strategies we use in the classroom are
  elements of differentiated instruction.

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Strategies

• Flexible grouping
• Books on tape
• Stations
• Learning or Interest Centers
• Learning contracts
• Independent studies
• Choral reading
• Open Ended Activities

• Cooperative learning
• Multiple intelligence options
• Learning styles
• Multi-level lessons
• Assignment choice
• Small group instruction
• Student interest activities

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What is and isnt Differentiation

• ISNT
• -Creating a different lesson for each student
• -Ensuring each student has an IPP

• IS
• -A technique used to create a learning
  environment
• -Requires a variety of materials, experiences,
  and assessment tools
• -Focuses on change within the context of a lesson
  or unit that maximums the learning for students

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Teachers Can Differentiate by
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When Planning Try to Consider

• Learning Profile
• Depicts how a child learns
• Interests
• The students area of appeal or curiosity
• Readiness
• The students skill development level

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Sample Lesson Ideas

• Variety is the Key!!

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LA Grade 7

• Responding to Text Novel Study

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Characterization

• Simple
• Write a full description of a character in the
  book and draw a portrait to accompany your
  description
• Write a complaint letter to the main character of
  the book about one specific action in the story
  you did not agree with

• More complex
• Create life-sized models of two characters in the
  book prepare a dialogue between them and act it
  out
• Read the classifieds and find something the main
  character would like write a paragraph
  explaining why he/she needs the item and
  determine whether or not it is a good buy

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Biology 20

• Students Teaching Students

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The Respiratory System

• Students given 5 key questions (objectives to be
  met by end of section)
• Students choose question they would most like to
  answer
• Group students accordingly
• Students prepare lesson(s) for and evaluation of
  peers according to their own interests and
  abilities
• Subject is taught through various strategies
  using a variety of evaluation tools

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Sample Lesson Plan for Settling the
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Other Sample lesson Plans Insert link here
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Using Technology for Differentiated Instruction

• Three things that a teacher can differentiate
  content, process and product.
• For example, differentiating instruction by
  process may look like some students using a
  traditional print encyclopedia to complete a
  research task in a classroom as some students use
  Internet bookmarks collected by the teacher and
  still other students use a multimedia
  encyclopedia that provides audio support.

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Webquests

• WebQuests are a wonderful means of
  differentiating instruction based on interest.
• A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in
  which some or all of the information that
  learners interact with comes from resources on
  the Internet.

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Sample Webquests

• The Webquest Portal http//webquest.org/
• Top Webquests for Middle Years
  http//webquest.org/matrix3.php
• Tailing the Samurais Tale (Japan - Humanities)
  http//edtech.suhsd.k12.ca.us/inprogress/act/dfick
  ett/japan/samuraistale.htm
• Bones and the Badge (Science 6 )
  http//projects.edtech.sandi.net/kearny/forensic/
  
• Too Hot Too Handle (Science Health)
  http//imet.csus.edu/imet2/nicher/toohotwebquest/i
  ndex.html
• Units of Measure (Math) http//phillips.chccs.k12
  .nc.us/rfrescoln/unitofmeasure.htm

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Additional Projects (not Webquests)

• Humanities
• Unlikely Heroes http//webacc.fsd38.ab.ca/service
  s/Foothills20AISI/ICT20web/Unlikely20Heroes20W
  ebsite/index.htm
• New News http//www.mjsd1.ca/grassroots/2002/con
  tent/Lucy02/News1.html

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Additional Projects cont.

• Sciences
• Robotics http//www.galileo.org/robotics/
• Structures http//www.galileo.org/tips/structures
  /structures.html

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SMART Board Projects

• Lessons and Activities http//edcompass.smarttech.
  com/en/learning/activities/index.aspx

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Online Resource Links

• MHCBE Resources Links http//www.mhcbe.ab.ca/cec/m
  iddle/links.htmDI
• Albemarle County Public Schools - Technology and
  Differentiated InstructionWeb Resources
  http//k12.albemarle.org/technology/di/
• Technology and Multiple Intelligences
  http//www.eduscapes.com/tap/topic68.htm

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SAPDC has planned some professional learning
opportunities
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November 10, 2004 Middle Schools and
Differentiated Instruction - author and renown
workshop presenter Rick Wormeli will be returning
to Lethbridge upon the request of teachers who
heard him in May, 2003 April 27, 2005
Middle Schools Part II with Rick Wormeli