Differentiated Instruction

1. Differentiated Instruction Student Choice: Choice Boards

2. What is a choice board? • Choice boards offers opportunities for students to take control of their learning. Students make decisions about how they will meet class requirements.  A choice board could be for a single lesson, a week-long lesson, or even a month-long period of study.  You may offer as many or as few options that will work for your classroom. • Steps: • 1. Identify the target of the lesson. • 2. Brainstorm the multiple ways students could show that knowledge. • 3. Create a final optional section that requires students the opportunity for enrichment, research, and practice.

3. What does it look like? • www.thecuriousapple.comwww.scienceinthecity2.blogspot.com

4. Differentiated Instruction Modes, Tiers, and Grouping: Learning Style

5. Differentiating by learning styles • What learning style are you? • We typically teach our style of learning. • Over 30% of your learners are probably visual.

6. Visual Learners • Engaging Visual Learners • Use highlighting tape in text • Draw attention to posters and peripherals in room • Show filmstrips or videotapes • Use graphic organizers • Use pointers during whole-group instruction • Point out details in illustrations • Use expressive gestures and body language • Display word walls • Visual learners do very well with, and all learners benefit from: Puzzles Drawing • Tracing over sheet protectors • Writing Estimating amounts, weights • Viewing a video or a filmstrip • Presentations using PowerPoint™ or other graphics-based digital media • Visual sequencing • Memory matching games • Marking answers in text with highlighting tape • Scholastic.com

7. Auditory Learners • Engaging Auditory Learners • Read aloud often • Make a listening center available • Record directions, passages or chapters so students can listen and read along • Use music to teach skills • Vary the pitch and tone of your voice • Encourage peer discussions • Ask for retellings • Use Readers Theater • Auditory learners do very well with, and all learners benefit from: Books on tape • Story retelling with puppets • Using whisper phones • Teacher-led small-group instruction • Recording an oral retelling • Headphones (with wires cut off) to eliminate distractions • Acting out character roles • Scholastic.com

8. Kinesthetic learner • Engaging Kinesthetic and Tactile Learners • Use role-playing • Provide props for retelling • Supply clay and other simple building materials for making models • Slide skill sheets into page protectors and let students complete the exercises with a water-based pen that can be erased when they’re finished • Allow a “walk-and-talk” format for peer discussion • Incorporate energizing movement regularly • Kinesthetic and tactile learners do very well with, and all learners benefit from: Working with clay and other malleable materials • Using pointers during independent reading • Acting out a story Using number and letter stamps • Learning sign language • Dice or card games • Experiments • Floor puzzles, envelope activities • scholastic.com

9. Musical Learners • Incredibox.com • Ujam.com

10. Differentiated Instruction Groups and Assessments: Anchors, Sidebars, and Tiered Lesson Planning

11. What is it? • Anchors: • An anchor chart outlines or describes procedures, processes, and strategies • on a particular theme and is posted in the classroom for reference by students. • Examples: • How to check your heart rate • Comma usage • How to pick good fit books • These are created WITH students

12. What do they look like?

13. What is it? • Side bars, Genius Hour and Passion Projects: • What do you want to learn about? • How can you show what you have learned? • Who else does this??? Google www.rundesroom.com/2013/11/passion-projects-week-2.html

14. What is it? • Tiered Lesson Planning: • Tasks and activities varied by readiness, learner profile, interest, or choice.