Differentiating instruction is a time-tested way of thinking about meeting students' needs as they make progress toward achievement or learning targets. Differentiation is an elegant mindset that suggests to teachers a framework that permits them to engage students while focusing on learning results, and digital technologies offer many opportunities to differentiate instruction in meaningful ways. However, differentiating instruction takes a concerted planning effort on our parts as teachers and teacher educators. This is especially so as we develop a mindset that differentiation can be effective. In this post, I propose a three-phase approach to planning differentiated instruction:
Where do we start planning for differentiated instruction with technology,
What are considerations for who we teach, what we teach, and how we plan?
How do I put it all together?
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The author has curated a list of some useful places to start with when looking for lesson plans. The websites included below are the 7 most popular ones the author recommends.
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Grockit is a social platform for learning that provides students with collaborative real-time study rooms and content aligned to K-12 curriculum and college entrance exams. With Grockit, schools can:
* Quickly assess students' academic skill levels
* Focus instruction on areas with the most need
* Continuously adapt study plans to each student"
"Help your students children classify ideas and communicate more effectively. Use graphic organizers to structure writing projects, to help in problem solving, decision making, studying, planning research and brainstorming. Select a Graphic Organizer from the following list of links."