Handbook On Differentiated Instruction For Middle And High Schools

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ISBN: 9781930556935 | 1930556934
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Copyright: 1/30/2005

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This book has an abundance of time-saving, practical strategies for teachers in grades 6-12. A treasury of activities and resources, this book explains, demonstrates, and helps you select among a wide variety of differentiation processes, such as- - Whole Class Differentiation - Tiered Lessons - Learning Centers - Flexible Grouping - Literature Circles - Individualized Instruction - Independent Study - Learning Contracts

Meet the Author

Introduction

What Is Differentiation?

Why Differentiate?

How to Use This Book

xii

Getting to Know Your Students

(38)

Step 1---Know Your Own Learning Styles

(1)

Step 2---Believe You Can Know All of Your Students

(1)

Strategy 1---Encourage Self-Discovery

(1)

Strategy 2---Documentation

(1)

Step 3---Obtain Reading Information

(4)

Strategy 1---Assessing the Readability of Your Major Text

(1)

Assessment

(1)

Strategy 2---Use Other Readability Assessments

(1)

Fry's Readability Graph

(1)

Lexiled Test

(1)

Cloze Test

(1)

Strategy 3---Use Standardized Test Assessments of Student Reading Levels

(1)

Step 4---What Are Your Students' Learning Styles or Preferences?

(11)

Strategy 1---Left-Brain/Right-Brain?

(3)

Strategy 2---Visual, Auditory, or Kinesthetic/Haptic Learners?

(3)

Strategy 3---The 4Mat System

(1)

Strategy 4---The Four Learning Styles

(1)

Strategy 5---What Kind of Fruit Are You?

(3)

Step 5---Know Your Students Interests

(2)

Strategy 1---Assign an Interests Essay

(1)

Strategy 2---Distribute the Interest Inventory

(2)

Step 6---Find out about Students' Multiple Intelligences

(4)

Step 7---Know Under What Conditions Students Learn Best

(4)

Step 8---Know Where Your Students Are Developmentally

(5)

Emotional Development

(2)

Step 9---Know If Your Students Have ``Exceptionalities''

(1)

Step 10---If Your Students Are Impoverished, You Need to Understand Them

(1)

Step 11---Documenting What You Know

(2)

Summary

(2)

Gathering Resources (Content Differentiation)

(36)

Textbooks

(1)

Scaffolding Activities

(1)

Prereading Activities

(10)

Strategy 1---Teach Students to Access Prior Knowledge

(1)

The KWL Chart

(1)

Strategy 2---Teach Students to Use the Patterns of Informational Text

(2)

Strategy 3---Teach Students Key Vocabulary Words

(1)

Word Cards

(1)

Concept Mapping

(1)

Hilda Taba's Model of Concept Development

(1)

Frayer Model

(1)

Other Ideas

(1)

Strategy 4---Teach Students How to Read Informational Text

(1)

Anticipation Guide/Prediction Guide

(1)

Direct Reading/Thinking Activity

(1)

Strategy 5---Engage the Affective Domain (i.e., the Emotions)

(1)

Philosophical Chairs

(1)

What If? Questions

(1)

Strategy 6---Engage All Learners: Experiential Activities

(1)

Strategy 7---Use Brain Gym: A Resource for Kinesthetic Learners

(1)

``During Reading'' Strategies

(9)

Strategy 1---Teach Students to Identify Vocabulary Words as They Read

(1)

Quadruple---Entry Word Journal

(1)

Strategy 2---Choose from among Eight Oral Reading Strategies (Wood, 1992): A Resource for Auditory Learners

(1)

Strategy 3---Use Teacher Modeling

(1)

``Think-Aloud''

(1)

Strategy 4---Create Study Guides for Difficult Texts

(1)

Strategy 5---Use a Levels Guide

(3)

Strategy 6---Assign Double Entry or Two Column Note-Taking and Journaling

(2)

Strategy 7---For Visual/Spatial Learners

(1)

Idea 1: Use Graphic Organizers

(1)

Idea 2: Use Thinking Maps

(1)

Idea 3: Use Mind Maps for Organizing as You Read

(1)

``After Reading'' Strategies

(1)

Before, During, and After Reading

(2)

SQ3R (Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review)

(1)

REAP (Read, Encode, Annotate, Ponder)

(1)

Making a Book Come Alive

(1)

Finding Resources that go beyond the Textbook

(2)

Search Engine Directories

(1)

Education Resources

(1)

School Media Center Resources

(1)

Special Hard Copy Sources for Various Types of Readers

(2)

On-Line Resources

(1)

Internet Resources

(8)

Lesson Planning

(1)

Searching for Information Online

(1)

General Curriculum

(1)

Language Arts

(1)

Mathematics

(1)

Science

(1)

Social Studies

(1)

The Arts

(1)

Connecting with Others

(1)

Interactive Sites

(1)

Miscellaneous Educational Sites

(1)

Online Projects

(1)

Special Internet Resources

(1)

Organizing Materials

(1)

Summary

(2)

Selecting a Process

(70)

Whole Class Differentiation

(15)

Tiered Lessons

(3)

Level 1 Syllabus

(1)

Level 2 Syllabus

(2)

Level 3 Syllabus

(1)

4Mat

(1)

Lesson Tiered by Learning Styles (Multiple Intelligences and Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic/Haptic)

(8)

Using Interest Groups to Differentiate Instruction

(8)

Learning Centers

(1)

How to Set up a Learning Center or Centers in the Classroom

(4)

Flexible Grouping

(13)

Differentiation Framework for Flexible Groups

(13)

Adjusting Questions in Whole Class Discussion

111

(1)

Task Cards

112

(3)

Small Group Differentiation

115

(3)

Literature Circles

115

(2)

Study Groups

117

(1)

Cubed Discussion Groups

118

(7)

Cooperative Groups

125

(1)

Ordered Sharing

126

(1)

Individualizing Instruction

127

(9)

Research Projects

127

(3)

The Tic-Tac-Toe Menu

130

(1)

Curriculum Compacting

131

(1)

Independent Study

132

(1)

Learning Contracts

133

(3)

Apprentice/Mentorship

136

(1)

Personalized System of Instruction and Computer-Aided Personalized System of Instruction

136

(1)

Miscellaneous Strategies for Whole Class, Small Group, or Individual Differentiation

137

(3)

Special Strategies That Boost Thinking and Creativity Derived from the Business World

137

(1)

Brainstorming

137

(1)

SIT (Systematic Inventive Thinking or ASIT--Advanced Systematic Inventive Thinking)

138

(1)

SCAMPER (Osborn, Eberle, and Michalko)

139

(1)

Lateral Thinking

140

(1)

Ideas from Business That Boost Creativity

140

(1)

Concepts That Are Organic to Differentiation

140

(1)

FLOW

140

(1)

Workshop

141

(1)

Special Time-Saving Strategies for the Differentiated Classroom: RICE and Education Sponge Activities

141

(1)

RICE

141

(1)

Educational Sponge Activities

142

(1)

Two Frameworks for Differentiating Instruction

142

(1)

Summary

143

(2)

Assessment: Differentiating Product

145

(36)

Question-Based Assessment

146

(5)

Questioning Strategies

146

(1)

Essential Questions

146

(1)

Interactive Questions

147

(3)

Socratic Seminar

150

(1)

Problem-Based Assessment

151

(9)

The Problem-Solving Matrix Types

151

(4)

Ford-Harris Matrix

155

(5)

Problem-Based Learning

160

(2)

Six-Step Problem Solving

162

(2)

Scenario Writing

164

(2)

Performance-Based Assessment

166

(1)

Affective Domain Assessment

166

(6)

Journaling and Learning Logs

167

(1)

Self-Assessment and Peer Assessment

168

(1)

Portfolio Self-Assessment (Yancey, 1992)

168

(1)

Peer Assessment

169

(3)

Assessment Tools

172

(5)

Check List (Also a Quantitative Tool)

172

(2)

Product Guide

174

(3)

Rubric (Holistic or Analytical Measures)

177

(3)

Summary

180

(1)

Putting it All Together

181

(8)

General Guidelines

181

(8)

Step 1: What Will Students Learn?

181

(1)

History and Science

181

(1)

Three-Circle Audit

182

(1)

Math

182

(1)

English/Language Arts

183

(1)

Step 2: How Will You Determine Acceptable Evidence?

183

(1)

Step 3: What Differentiated Activities Will Maximize Learning for All Students?

184

(2)

Step 4: What Materials Will You Need to Teach the Lesson?

186

(1)

Step 5: How Will You Present the Lesson to the Students and in What Order?

186

(3)

References

189

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