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This chapter focuses on the following essential questions: -How do the principles of backward design and differentiation look when they are used together in the planning process? -What are the potential benefits to learners of classrooms in which both models are used? -What should we expect to see in classrooms using backward design and differentiation?

This article presents 10 research-based principles of instruction, along with suggestions for classroom practice.

Carol Tomlinson provides an explanation on getting started with differentiated instruction.

This document presents an overview of Marzano's nine essential instructional strategies.

This infographic explains what is and what is not differentiated instruction (DI), based on Tomlinson's (2014) book, "The Differentiated Classroom, 2nd Edition".

Focus on Student Learning is a series of teaching resources created to support teachers and save them time. Each booklet within the series takes one aspect of instruction and suggests multiple ways of using that instruction practice in the classroom. Book Two: 60 Formative Assessment Strategies provides teachers with a variety of strategies to gather information about their students during instruction.

This chapter focuses on the following essential questions: -What is the logic for joining the two models? -What are the big ideas of the models, and how do they look in action?

Focus on Student Learning is a series of teaching resources created to support teachers and save them time. Each booklet within the series takes one aspect of instruction and suggests multiple ways of using that instruction practice in the classroom. Book Three: Summative Assessment - 50 Ways to Gather Evidence of Student Learning provides teachers with ideas of evidence they can collect to show the curriculum mastery levels of their students.

Focus on Student Learning is a series of teaching resources created to support teachers and save them time. Each booklet within the series takes one aspect of instruction and suggests multiple ways of using that instruction practice in the classroom. Book One: 50 Pre-assessment Strategies provides teachers with a wealth of strategies they can use to pre-assess the students in their classrooms.

This resource provides an introduction to the Understanding by Design (UbD) Framework by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe.

The Framework The Framework for Teaching is a research-based set of components of instruction, aligned to the INTASC standards, and grounded in a constructivist view of learning and teaching. The complex activity of teaching is divided into 22 components (and 76 smaller elements) clustered into four domains of teaching responsibility: Each component defines a distinct aspect of a domain; two to five elements describe a specific feature of a component.

Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner.

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