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Differentiated Instruction Workshop: Enhancing Classroom Strategies

This workshop offers strategies to adapt the teaching process for varied student needs, focusing on resources, lesson creation, and assessment techniques. Explore diverse teaching methods and enrich your classroom approach.

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Differentiated Instruction Workshop: Enhancing Classroom Strategies

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  1. Differentiated Instruction:Adapting the Process Facilitated By Sara Fridley & Kathleen West Region 3 Education Service Agency sara.fridley@k12.sd.us kathleen.a.west@k12.sd.us Workshop 2

  2. Workshop Outcomes • Increased understanding of how to differentiate the “process” • Establish a new personal professional library of resources on differentiation • Begin creation of a differentiated lesson/unit to be used in your own classroom

  3. Key #1 – Adapt Process • Students use key skills • Bloom’s Taxonomy • Multiple Intelligence Theories • Common focus • Vary student activities • Vary complexity • Teacher uses a variety of methods

  4. Using Reading Strategies in All Content Areas • Vary strategies to aid a variety of learning styles/intelligences • Good reading strategies work in any content area

  5. High Quality Resources • Marco Polo – curriculum resources • http://www.marcopolo-education.com • ReadWriteThink • Illuminations • ArtsEdge • EconEdLink • National Geographic Expeditions • ScienceNetLinks • EdSitement

  6. Time For Lunch Come back at 1:00

  7. A Few Sample Lessons • Math Activities • Pi Day • Fractals • Social Studies • T-Shirts Through Time • Science & Problem Solving • Space Day • HS 2005 Project

  8. The 4 Hats of a Teacher • Diagnostician • Who am I teaching? • Program Design Engineer • What are students expected to learn? • Project Manager • How are students demonstrating their knowledge? • Assessor • Does the student product reflect/demonstrate understandings but also challenge them to stretch?

  9. Adapting the Process: Pre-assessment in a Differentiated Classroom • Provides a baseline of prior knowledge • Helps set a high ceiling • Capitalizes on interests, abilities, strengths, learning styles Handout: Pre-assessment ladder

  10. Approaches to Pre-Assessment • Formal • Pre-tests/quizzes • Performance on prior end-of-unit assessments • Informal • Journal entries • Surveys • Webbing activities • Systematic Observation

  11. Let’s Build a Lesson • Standards based • What pre-assessment could you use? • Understanding By Design • “Four Stages” of lesson design • Identify desired outcomes • Determine acceptable evidence • Plan learning experiences and instructional activities • Plan differentiation

  12. Homework for March • Bring your first lesson/unit in March • Rough draft is OK • Present it to the group • Read & Explore • The Brain Compatible Classroom • The Body, Movement, & the Brain • Time, Time, and More Time

  13. The Body, Movement, and the Brain • Essential Question – How can movement help the brain reach its potential? • The Brain-Compatible Classroom • Chapter 3 (pg 41) • What can you take from this resource back to your own classroom?

  14. Time, Time, and More Time • Essential Question – What role does TIME play in the classroom? • The Brain-Compatible Classroom • Chapter 5 (pg 75) • What can you take from this resource back to your own classroom?

  15. Brain Resources • Brain Breaks • http://www.alite.co.uk/information/brain_breaks.htm • Grow a Brain (Susan Jones) • http://www.susanjjones.com/grobraintro.html • The Brain Connection • http://www.brainconnection.com/

  16. Fun Math Resources • Chaos in the Classroom • http://math.bu.edu/DYSYS/chaos-game/chaos-game.html • Fractals • http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/frac/

  17. Pre-assessment Resources • http://assist.educ.msu.edu/ASSIST/classroom/assessment/section1/sec1strat1preassess.htm • http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/gifted/projects/NRC/projects/ascd/ascd2002.ppt

  18. Graphic Organizers • http://www.writedesignonline.com/organizers/ • http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/learning/lr1grorg.htm

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