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Know Your Students Differentiation Tools for Determining Readiness, Interests, and Learner Profile. Developed by Colleen Murphy Mauston School District. Let’s Review. What does Differentiation mean?. Delivering instruction that honors different learning styles
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Know Your StudentsDifferentiation Tools for Determining Readiness, Interests, and Learner Profile Developed by Colleen Murphy Mauston School District
What does Differentiation mean? • Delivering instruction that honors different learning styles • Providing multiple options for accessing content • Allowing a variety of performance options to demonstrate understanding
What Differentiation is NOT • New • Individualized instruction • Tracking • Static • Reactive
What Differentiation is • Multiple approaches • Qualitative • Rooted in assessment • Student centered • Proactive
Why do we differentiate? • To meet the needs of all learners • To maximize learning for all students • To help all students achieve success
Who do we differentiate for? • Struggling students • Gifted/Talented students • ELL/Bilingual students • At-Risk students • All students
Before you begin you must… • Determine what you want your students to Know, Understand, and be able to Do • Assess you students for Readiness, Interests, and Learning Profiles • Plan for Content, Process, and Product
KUD • What we want the students to KNOW, UNDERSTAND, and be able to DO With any given curriculum, what knowledge should the students acquire? What skills will they master? What big ideas and concepts will they understand?
Getting to know your students… • Assess for READINESS Readiness refers not to ability but to what the student knows, understands, and can do in light of the curriculum to be covered
Getting to know your students… • Assess for INTERESTS Assessing for interest involves looking for connections between the curriculum to be covered and those things the student finds appealing, intriguing, relevant, and worthwhile
Getting to know your students… • Assess for LEARNING PROFILE Learning profile involves more than just modality preference but is influenced as well by intelligence preference, gender, and culture
Getting to know your students… • Given these 3 characteristics, how do we go about gathering this information on each of the 24 students in our class. Better yet, how about the 117 students we see in the course of a day?
Getting to know your students… • To assess for Readiness try using: • What Do You Know About….? • Who Is It? • Brainstorm and Sort • Background Knowledge Backpack • Anticipation Guides • Personal assessment • K-W-L
Getting to know your students… • To assess for interests, try using • Student Interest Surveys • Who Am I? • This Is Me posters • The Slip Game • Getting to Know Group Members • People Hunt • Puzzle Me Out • What Are Your Interests? • Personal discussion
Getting to know your students… • To assess for Learning Profile, try using: • Interaction Inventory • Learning Profile Questionnaires • Theory of Multiple Intelligences Self Assessment • Triarchic Theory of Intelligences • Modality Preferences Instrument • Personal observation
REMEMBER: • Readiness • Find out what they already know and meet them there • Learning Profile • Determine the best avenue for delivering instruction • Interests • Look for aspects of the subject that interest or intrigue
Resources • Tomlinson, Carol Ann – How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed-Ability Classrooms, 2nd Ed., ASCD, 2001 • Strickland, Cindy A. – Tools for High-Quality Differentiated Instruction, ASCD, 2007 • Zwiers, Jeff – Building Reading Comprehension Habits in Grades 6-12: A Toolkit of Classroom Activities, IRA, 2004 • Wood, Karen D., Lapp, Diane, Flood, James, Taylor, D. Bruce – Guiding Readings Through Text: Strategy Guides for New Times, 2nd Ed., IRA, 2008 • Gibbs, Jeanne – Tribes: A New Way of Learning and Being Together, CenterSource Systems, 1995