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Shares research on completed on progress monitoring for individuals with disabilities participating in the general education classroom.

 The purpose of the group is to pilot the educational use of iPads and determine the relevant educational applications that can be used to promote student engagement and educational progress in learning.  Two of the Committee members have put together a list of applications that they have previewed and used with students.  They have spent a great deal of time working on recommendations for educational applications and a great deal of time organizing their information. 

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?

Provides assessment tools for assessing student progress. Assessment tools include for students in three levels: elementary, middle school, high school, and higher level education.