Guide

We created the guide! Click here to view it. Hurray.  Thank you to all PLC members for your input.

New Resource

A teacher from EHT schools created this wonderful resource for differentiated instruction.  Check it out - http://www.eht.k12.nj.us/~jonesj/Differentiated%20Instruction/1%20DI%20Strategies.htm

Ways to Differentiate

There are 3 ways to differentiate learning:

1) Differentiate the Content - decide what students will learn
2) Differentiate the Process - decide how students will learn
2) Differentiate the Product - decide how students will show what they have learned

Common Essential Goal

All children will be able to have different choices when it comes to learning and presenting their knowledge.

It's almost November...

November is going to be a blur.  We should think about when we will meet and what we will discuss.

Last time we met the term "tiered instruction" was raised.  I found a fabulous resource at http://www.saskschools.ca/curr_content/bestpractice/tiered/index.html

Tiering instruction is the part of differentiation where you take one concept and identify what the main ideas are.  Then you might provide instruction in 3 ways to 3 groups with different methods or depth of information.  As long as the main ideas are met, all 3 groups are learning the concepts. You can also differentiate the content, process, or the product in a lesson.

PLC Article- Alfie Kohn

This is a link to an article about PLCs. I thought it was interesting. I posted this previously but I am posting this again as a trial with a hyperlink.


www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/data.htm

What is your definition of differentiated instruction?