Digital Differentiated Instruction:

1. Agenda & Meeting The Team • Orientation & Audience Technology Buzzword /Virtual Education Check • Incorporating Virtual: The Digital Classroom, Digital Content & Online Classes • Millennial Kids, The Digital Teacher & Administrator • What Is Differentiated Instruction in a Digital Environment? • LIVE classroom: model the experiences of students and teachers • This Is A Work Session with Q & A  Digital Differentiated Instruction: Developing Teachers who Develop Content For Millenial Students!

2. Trina Trimm & Mike Ficara

3. Manny Riera Lina Sierra

4. IDENTIFY YOUR NEEDS FIND YOUR SOLUTION Why Bother To Go Digital? • REDUCE CLASS SIZE • ROLL WAIT LISTS • ENRICHMENT • SUMMER SCHOOL • AFTER SCHOOL • CREDIT RECOVERY • ADD A GRADE LEVEL • EXPAND CURRICULUM • ADD SCHOOL PROGRAMS • REDUCE RECURRING COSTS 17

5. First Generation of Virtual & Digital Content Providers • Replicated “school” • SAME as bricks & mortar

6. First Generation of Virtual & Digital Content Providers • Not SAME experience but EQUIVALENT educational opportunity • New ways to engage students • New opportunities for teachers

7. What is Second Generation? • Digital Classrooms • Customizable Curriculum • Open Source • Open Courseware • Make Good Teachers – STARS • NOT locked into a single Vendor

9. DIGITAL CLASSROOMS • Teacher in the classroom LIVE with students • Use of projector/computer (Boards Optional) • Online Content/Curriculum Resources • Students with or without computers • Communications Tools… email, digital drop boxes, use of blogs, wikis, google groups, etc.

10. What is Differentiated Instruction? “…differentiated instruction refers to a systematic approach to planning curriculum and instruction for academically diverse learners. It is a way of thinking about the classroom with the dual goals of honoring each student’s learning needs and maximizing each student’s learning capacity.” ~ Carol Ann Tomlinson, 2003 Differentiation in Practice: A Resource Guide for Differentiating Curriculum Grades 5-9, p. 3

11. Differentiated Instruction • Optimum method • All kids work at their level • High are challenged • Low are being supported • Middle stay on track • Assignment by Group

12. How do teachers differentiate?(Dimensions of Differentiated Instruction) • Three teacher-dependent dimensions • Content • Process • Product

13. CONTENT

14. UDL Elements – Standards-Based Content Development Differentiated Instruction Universal Design for Learning Provide multiple examples Highlight critical features Provide multi media and formats Support background context Offer choices of content and tools Offer adjustable levels of challenge • Provide multiple examples through specific text. • Stopping to point our critical features in the passage. • Use different formats • Active background knowledge • Teacher and peer feedback • Provide tiered lessons • Provide varying support to students and varying difficulty of tasks

15. Digital Content Can Be…. • Movies • Flash • Pictures • Audio • Music • eTexts

16. Customizable Curriculum • Ownership • Sequence • New Lessons • Multiple Resources • Open Source

17. Credit Recovery • Modular Digital Classroom • Child Re-takes Module • Grade Book Updated • Child Masters Skill • INSTANT Intervention

18. 5th Grader Feedback…

19. Process • Provide students with “multiple options to taking in information and making sense of ideas.” (NCAC p.2) • “Give your students as much responsibility for their learning process as possible.” (Tomlinson, 38)

20. Higher order thinking strategies • Begin differentiating at the student’s level. • Guide the student toward higher-order strategies. • Provide tiered lessons in order to accommodate all students. • Use flexible grouping to foster collaboration among students.

21. New and Old Bloom’sOriginal Terms New Terms • Creating • Evaluating • Analyzing • Applying • Understanding • Remembering • Evaluation • Synthesis • Analysis • Application • Comprehension • Knowledge (Based on Pohl, 2000, Learning to Think, Thinking to Learn, p. 8)

22. Product • Use assessment results to determine student need. • Provide interesting, engaging and accessible tasks that will lead to understanding. • Ensure students are challenged. • Allow students to express themselves in several ways. • Tasks should have varied degrees of difficulty to ensure all learners are accommodated.

23. How do we do it? • Review student assessment results. • Examine curriculum to determine which aspects can be adapted for differentiated instruction. • Evaluate a variety of instructional strategies to tailor instruction to meet student need. • Vary delivery methods to target the types of learners in your classroom. • Assess students to determine growth and provide scaffolding or more challenging tasks.

24. What are best practices in a DI classroom? • Lessons should be engaging • Lessons should emphasize critical and creative thinking

25. How do we train teachers to incorporate Differentiated Instruction in a digital environment? • Training • Fostering Collaboration • Mentoring • Coaching

26. Takes Work! Create a culture of never ending learning!

27. Teacher Fears • Does This Replace Us? • Can I learn This? • Does This Take Up Too Much Time? • Where Do I Begin? • Who Will Help? • What Do You Expect?

28. HOW DO I MANAGE THIS? • What Should This Look Like? • How Much Does This Cost? • How Much Is Enough? • What Content Do I Use & What Processes Do I Use? • How Do I Train Teachers? • How Do I Evaluate Teachers, Students, Success?

29. Tutoring Professional Development Digital School Continuous Progress monitoring Mentoring Observation

30. Shared Resources ~ Teacher Commons

31.  Teacher Commons for continuous communication with digital teacher network for lesson collaboration along with effective content and delivery techniques

32. Training • Initial On-Site Training • On-Site Implementation Team • Video Training Library • 24 Hour Help Desk

33. Welcome to Digital Classroom 101!

34. Student Experience • Go to website • www. csk12.com • 2. Log in using your assigned student user id and password • 3. Enter your digital classroom and complete your assignment • Be prepared to present the work you have created 

35. TEACHER EXPERIENCE • FOLLOW US LIVE AS • User inacol teacher

36. A good teacher makes you think even when you don’t want to. (Fisher, 1998, Teaching Thinking)

37. Resources • Fisher R. (1998/2003) Teaching Thinking: Philosophical Enquiry in the Classroom, London: Continuum. • National Center on Assessing the General Curriculum (NCAC) (2002). Differentiated Instruction: Effective Classroom Practices Report. • Pohl, Michael. (2000). Learning to Think, Thinking to Learn: Models and Strategies to Develop a Classroom Culture of Thinking. Cheltenham, Vic.: Hawker Brownlow. • Tomlinson, C. & Allan, D. S. (2000). Leadership for differentiating schools & classrooms. Alexandria, VA: ASCD. • Tomlinson, Carol, A ., Cunningham Edison, C. (2003). Differentiation in Practice: A resource guide for differentiating curriculum. Alexandria, VA: ASCD. • Tomlinson, Carol, A . (2001). How to Differentiate Instruction in a Mixed-Ability Classrooms. Alexandria, VA: ASCD.