Differentiated Instruction

1. Differentiated Instruction Bookends: Beginning and Ending a Lesson

2. Entrance / Exit Cards a "low prep" strategy gathers information about academic readiness degree of mastery attained after a learning experience

3. Entrance Cards Used prior to beginning a lesson Used to assess prior knowledge / experience / questions Misunderstandings about the concept Helps a teacher determine where to begin the lesson Can inform initial groupings of students.

4. Entrance Cards Students are asked to complete a question on an "entrance card.� Cards collected for fast analysis

5. Entrance Cards

6. Exit Cards Used at the end of a lesson.

7. Exit Cards The teacher can quickly determine which students achieved the intended objective which students may require some additional re-teaching on the essential concept(s) Advantage of the entrance/exit card strategy : the short amount of time required to prepare the materials the short amount of time required to analyze the data collected

8. Sponge Activities FACT: Not everyone learns at the same pace. Sponge activities offer enrichment and deeper meaning to the learners who finish early.

9. Sponge Activities Purposeful, worthwhile activities Deepen student understanding of content Enrich the skills students need to deepen understanding Self-directed Relatively short Easy to pick up or put down

10. Sponge Activities May include extended content related content additional practice activities new applications of material that students have learned

11. Sponge Activity Examples Language Arts Reflection journals sharing what they have learned. personalizing the material "How do you feel about what you have read?" "What was most interesting to you about what you read and why?"

12. Sponge Activity Examples Biology Create a game to play that reinforces the layman versus scientific names of human bones (e.g., femur/thigh bone). Other students can then use the game for review during another sponge activity.

13. Sponge Activity Examples Foreign Language Listening centers Students listen to audio / video recordings in the content language and answer the questions on a worksheet.

14. Sponge Activity Examples History Create a Constitution for this class Include what you think are the five most important rules. Decorate it to make it look like an antique. Develop five interview questions and answers for one of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention. The questions must be about: the development of the Constitution the specific feelings of that delegate relationships between that delegate and other delegates. View the virtual tours of Independence Hall in Philadelphia and the House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. Compare the two environments. Describe how the physical environment might affect the decision making then and now.

15. Bell Ringers In order to learn the person must be focused on the task Bell ringers are used to focus the learner.

16. Bell Ringers Are in place so the learner can begin immediately Short Self-directed Content based Question Definition Calculation Opinion

17. Bell Ringers Great Graphs Builds graph reading skills Collect from newspapers and magazines a variety of graphs. (The major news magazines are good sources; the USA Today newspaper is another excellent source.) You might laminate the graphs so you can use them over and over. Hand each student a graph and a sticky note. Have them write on the sticky note one fact they did not know that they learned from the graph.

18. Bell Ringers Analogy Puzzles  Good SAT / ACT / PSSA activity. Have students share their responses and the reasoning behind them. Correct responses are shown in bold italic type. 1. Four is to rectangle as three is to _____. a. tricycle b. octagon c. square d. triangle 2. Century is to 100 as decade is to _____.a. 10 b. dollar c. era d. period 3. Edison is to light bulb as Gutenberg is to _____. a. newspaper b. rocket c. telephone d. printing press

19. Managing Sponge / Bell Ringer Activities Students must be held accountable for completion of sponge / bell ringer activities. Points Random check Peer review Checklist Rubric Student / teacher conference Etc.

20. Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.� �Anonymous