Differentiating Instruction

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Differentiating Instruction

• by
• Product

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• How smart is this student?
• How is the student smart?

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Definitions of Differentiating Instruction by
Product

• A product is a means by which students
  demonstrate what they know, understand, and are
  able to do in relation to the lesson.
• The term product also refers to a culminating
  product, or something students produce that
  demonstrates major portions of learning
  following a unit lesson.

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You can use a product to differentiate
instruction by adding greater complexity or
abstractness to tasks, by engaging students in
critical and creative thinking, or by increasing
the variety of ways in which you ask them to
demonstrate what they have learned.
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Product can be differentiated by

• Readiness
• a students entry point relative to a particular
  understanding or skill
• Interest
• a students affinity, curiosity, or passion for
  a particular topic or skill
• Learning Profile
• has to do with how a student learns and may
• be shaped by intelligence preferences, gender,
  culture, or learning styles

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Strategies for Differentiating Product

• Readiness

• Use tiered product assignments.
• Use tiered activities
• (activities at different levels of difficulty,
  but focused on the same key learning goals).
• An example of a 6th grade math lesson working on
  fractions would include
• Tier one
• The student will match the fraction piece to the
  fraction.
• Tier Two
• The student will complete a pictorial
  representation of a variety of fractions.
• Tier Three
• The student will design a PowerPoint presentation
  displaying how to add fractions.

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Now its your turn.

• Take fifteen minutes at your
• table and work in small
• groups to develop a
• three tiered lesson based
• on a specific content area.
• Report out by table.

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Strategies forDifferentiating Product

• Readiness

• Use similar-readiness groups or teacher led
  groups to discuss product development (from
  advanced students to students who need extra
  support and guidance).
• Provide teacher-led mini-workshops on varied
  skills at varied levels of complexity to support
  student work and finished products.

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Strategies for Differentiating Product

• Readiness

• Develop rubrics or other benchmarks for success
  based on both grade-level expectations and
  individual student learning needs.
• Provide resource materials at
• varied levels of readability and sophistication.

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Rubric Student Name______________________________
__________ Project completed by
(date)__________________________________ Check
One _____ Self Evaluation _____ Peer
Evaluation ________________________________ _____
Teacher Evaluation
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DI
Lesson Evaluation Name___________________________
___ Teacher____________________________ Date__
_____________________________ Title of Work
_________________________
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Resources for Rubrics Online

• Kathy Schrocks Guide to Educators
• Assessment Rubrics
• Everything you ever wanted to know about
• rubrics and more..
• http//school.discovery.com/schrockguide/assess.ht
  mlrubrics
• Another Rubric Site
• Designing Rubrics
• Choose a customizable rubric
• Edit rubric to suit your needs
• http//rubistar.4teachers.org/

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Strategies for Differentiating Product

• Encourage students to demonstrate key knowledge,
  understanding, and skills in related topics of
  special interest.
• Help students find mentors to guide product
  development or choice of products.

• Interest

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Strategies for Differentiating Product

• Interest

• Allow students to use a range of media or formats
  to express their knowledge, understanding, and
  skill.
• Design tasks that require multiple interests for
  successful completion.
• Encourage students to design or participate in
  the design of some tasks.

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Strategies for Differentiating Product

• Learning Profile

• Encourage students to work together or
  independently
• on product development.
• Teach students how to use a wide range of product
  formats.
• Provide visual, auditory, and kinesthetic product
  options.

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Strategies for Differentiating Product

• Learning Profile

• Provide analytic, creative, and practical product
  options.
• Ensure connections between product assignments
  and a range of student cultures/communities.

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Upon implementation of these strategies a student
will be able to understand and own the knowledge
and skills essential to find success in a content
area.
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Technology Tools for Differentiating Instruction

• iMovie, Windows Movie Maker
• Word porcessing/drawing/painting
• Digital camera
• Video camcorder
• Presentation software PowerPoint
• Alphasmarts (basic keyboard)
• Co-Writer (word prediction software)
• Write Outloud
• eReader
• Microsoft Publisher and Frontpage
• Timeliner
• Online Resources

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• Creating a Successful Differentiated Product
• 1. Identify the key elements of the lesson
• What students must
• know (facts)
• understand (concepts, generalizations)
• be able to do (skills)
• as result of the lesson.
• Identify one or more formats of the product
• required (e.g., poetry, an experiment,
• graphing, charting, computer presentation)
• student choices based on their talent,
  passion
• or interest

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3. Determine criteria for quality in
content (information, ideas, concepts,
materials) process (planning,
goal-setting, effective use of
time,originality, insight, research,
editing) product (size, construction,
durability, expert-level,
expectations, parts)

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• 4. Decide on scaffolding you may need to
• build on in order to promote success
• brainstorming for ideas
• developing rubrics/criteria for success
• timelines
• planning/goal setting
• storyboarding
• critiquing
• revising/editing

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• Develop a product assignment that clearly states
  to the student
• How knowledge of a concept is to be
• expressed
• Proceeding through these steps/stages
• -In this form
• -At this level of quality

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• 6. Differentiate or modify versions of the
  assignment based on
• student readiness
• student interest
• student learning profile
• 7. Provide support and guidance to promote
  student success.

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ReflectionExit Slip
3. Name three things you know about
differentiated products. _________________________
__________ 2. Name 2 strategies you will
incorporate in your classroom to have your
students to produce differentiated
products. ___________________________________
1. Name one thing you will do to better
understand product development.
___________________________________
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