In the past, trying to differentiate instruction in a tech class was almost impossible. Take for example, teaching my fourth grade students how to edit their newly recorded podcasts in ... 
The visceral rhetoric talked about ridiculous trainings on the subject and that differentiation equates to edutainment (which essentially is teaching to the lowest common denominator). (It was interesting that many ... 
Education is all about time constraints. End of the unit, end of the quarter, end of the semester, end of the year, move on to the next grade. People act like teachers think that our school schedule works the best. 
The National Educational Technology plan says this about these concepts: Individualized, Personalized, and Differentiated Instruction Individualization, differentiation, and personalization have become buzzwords in education, but little agreement...
The Internet and Differentiation by Gordon Lewis
A new website each day to help teachers reach & teach all learners in K-12 classrooms... 
A collection of resources to help guide Differentiation in Education... 
Generation Z is moving so fast we can only track their contrails. They have advertisers, marketers, and educators flummoxed with how they operate. What makes the Zs so different from the Boomers, Xs, and Ys? |
Our 175000 members in 119 countries are professional educators from all levels and subject areas––superintendents, supervisors, principals, teachers, professors of education, and school board members. 
I think that differentiated instruction is a very useful way to teach students in the classroom and make the lesson as engaging, stimulating, and effective as possible to every student. 
What will increasingly differentiate outcomes for schools, states, and nations is how well responsible adults carry out the more complex instructional tasks: motivating students to go the extra mile, teaching them time ... Bolts_in_Understanding_Differentiated_Instruction[1][1].pptx Differentiating instruction is a technique that teachers use to provide appropriate instruction to each student instead of treating all students as if they had the same abilities.
Using Good Questions for Differentiation
Two Decades of Research on Differentiation: What Do We Know Now? by Catherine M. Brighton
New teacher Laura Gurick meets with differentiated instruction expert Rick Wormeli to learn some new strategies. They discuss the importance of ongoing accurate assessment, scaffolding, and tiering. 
It’s like a few people sat around a table, steaming mad at their own opposing views on the direction of education, and said, “What’s a good word that we can all hold our hands around? 
It was quite a while before I could talk about The Differentiated Instruction Book of Lists (J-B Ed: Reach and Teach) (amazon affiliate link), because I found myself reading, pausing, thinking about the information, and then kind ... |
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