1 / 7

Extension Menus

Extension Menus. Strategies for Differentiating the Curriculum. What is an Extension Menu?. An extension menu is an array of independent learning activities presented in a ‘choice’ or ‘menu’ format to provide students with options for extending or enriching the essential curriculum.

uma-ashley
Download Presentation

Extension Menus

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Extension Menus Strategies for Differentiating the Curriculum

  2. What is an Extension Menu? • An extension menu is an array of independent learning activities presented in a ‘choice’ or ‘menu’ format to provide students with options for extending or enriching the essential curriculum.

  3. Why use Extension Menus? • Enrich or extend the essential curriculum • Challenge the abilities of highly able students • Provide alternative activities that address the differing abilities, interests, or learning styles of students • Allow choice

  4. Computer Applications Menu You Decide

  5. History/ELA Extension Menu

  6. Advantages of Extension Menus • Strategy spans all curricular areas • Can target specific learning activities for an individual student or small group • Allows student choice as well as challenge • Students’ choices reveal their interests, abilities and learning styles • Promotes higher level thinking skills • Encourages the development of independent thinking

  7. Classroom Uses of Extension Menus • Follow-up activity • Culminating activity • Anchoring activity (defined by Carol Ann Tomlinson as, “meaningful work done individually and silently”) especially when children first begin a class or when they finish assigned work • Learning center • Independent activity

More Related