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Differentiating Instruction Preassessment KuDos Choice Boards. DIFFERENTIATION. Curriculum: Content/Process/Product Student: Readiness/Interest/Learning Style.
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Differentiating Instruction • Preassessment • KuDos • Choice Boards
DIFFERENTIATION Curriculum: Content/Process/Product Student: Readiness/Interest/Learning Style
A Working Definition of DifferentiationDifferentiation has come to mean “consistently using a variety of instructional approaches to modify content, process, and/or products in response to learning readiness and interest of academically diverse students.” Tomlinson, Carol Ann. The Differentiated Classroom
When Differentiating Instruction, The Three Most Important Questions to Continually Ask Yourself... What do I want may students to know, understand, and be able to do? What will I do instructionally to get my students to learn this? How will my students show what they know?
KuDos KNOW Facts, vocabulary, dates, rules, people, places. Written as a list of things most often memorized UNDERSTAND Concept, principles, generalizations. Written as a sentence describing the BIG IDEAS BE ABLE TO DO Basic skills, creative and critical thinking, life skills. Describe independent action, application of learning. Written beginning with a verb (usually Blooms verb)
Choice Activities CHOICE BOARDS • Students choose from a menu of options • Tasks vary by process and interest • Some anchor activities can be required of all students • Can be used for homework, projects, and assessment
Build Your OwnChoice Board • Choose a content topic and language structure. • Create a choice board of activities, projects, or performances with your diverse student learners in mind.
FRIENDSHIPS Shape up! Reading Contract Choose an activity from each shape group. Cut out your three choices and glue them Below. You are responsible for finishing these activities by _________. Have fun! This contract belongs to _____________________________________
Make a poster advertising yourself as a good friend. Use words and pictures to help make people want to be your friend. Make sure your name is an important part of the poster Make a two sided circle-rama. Use it to tell people what makes you a good friend. Use pictures and words and make sure your name is an important part of the display Make a mobile that shows what makes you a good friend. Use pictures and words to hang on your mobile. Write your name on the top of the mobile in beautiful letters. Meet with me and tell me about a problem and its solution from the story. Then tell me about a problem you have had and how you solved it Get with a friend and make a puppet show about a problem and the solution in your book Get with a friend and act out a problem and its solution from your book Draw a picture of a problem in the story. Then use words to tell about the problem and how the characters solved their problem Write a letter to one of the characters in your book. Tell them about a problem you have. Then have them write back with a solution to your problem. Think about another problem one of the characters in your book might have. Write a new story for the book about the problem and tell how it was solved.