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"The document above is an explicit lesson plan which outlines the plan for a day we held stations in math class. Students were given a set amount of time at each station where they practiced a different fraction related math skill."

"Last year my colleagues in the Special Education department and I did a faculty training on differentiating instruction.  We were grateful for the positive feedback.  Here is the 12-page handout and the PowerPoint from that presentatio"

"Scientific Inquiry: Technology Learning Centers Web-based science learning centers are ideal for group inquiry-based activities using interactive online resources and in class supporting materials in designated stations. These stations are designed to support as many learning styles as possible within the context of the learning center"

"Differentiation provides ways to cope with large workloads and with the feeling that there's never enough time."

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 resource provides teachers with an Alberta context for differentiated instruction, and information and strategies for implementing differentiated instructional practices to better meet the diverse learning needs of all students"

Not all students learn at the same pace. Use this week's Tool for reflecting on and planning differentiated instruction in general education classrooms for students with diverse needs.

Project-Based Learning (PBL) naturally lends itself to differentiated instruction. By design, it is student-centered, student-driven and gives space for teachers to meet the needs of students in a variety of ways. PBL can allow for effective differentiation in assessment as well as daily management and instruction.

"Christina Bianco* manages to take one song and sing it as 18 different fabulous women - anyone from Adele to Julie Andrews to Barbara Streisand to Celine Dion to Shakira - and she NAILS it"

"The Differentiator is based on Bloom's Taxonomy, Sandra Kaplan's Flip Book and Flip Book, Too, and David Chung's product menu."

"For the same 20-minute investment of time, we can change the way a child sees himself as a reader, thinker, or mathematician. We can give Manuel the rare experience of being the kid who gets it first, who helps the other kids figure it out, who is ready with the answer the moment he hears the question."

Grades 1-12 Peel school district in Ontario

"My favorite vocabulary assessment involved discussion. This is one of the reasons it was different but another is that the discussion was one on one -the student and I had a 3-5 minute uninterrupted conversation"

"In this new video podcast-one of many free resources that support his best-selling book, Fair Isn't Always Equal: Assessment & Grading in the Differentiated Classroom (Stenhouse, 2006)-Rick Wormeli discusses strategies school leaders can use to unite faculty members around common goals. "

In this installment, we show you how Mesquite Elementary School developed a teaching strategy that turned their school around in just six months, and that continues to prove out its effectiveness.

Carol Ann Tomlinson videos from ASCD