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Salisbury Township School DistrictAllentown, Pennsylvania
Lynn Fuini-Hetten, Instructional CoachJennifer Brinson, Instructional Coach
One Size Does Not Fit All: Differentiation for all students
Differentiation Self Assessment
+Differentiated Instruction
Flexible approach to teaching with varied approaches to content, process, and product in anticipation and response to student differences in readiness, interests, and learning needs (Tomlinson, 1995)
Technology Integration serves as an excellent vehicle to help educators achieve the goal of differentiating instruction
+Differentiated Instruction
Principles
Acceptance and respect of differences
Materials and tasks at varied level of difficulty
Motivates students to work to their highest potential
Meaningful learning that emphasizes essential questions
Teachers who serve as facilitators of learning and use an array of strategies that connect instruction to student needs
Instruction is guided by on-going assessments
Integrating technology can meet these differentiated instruction
strategies
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+Change in Philosophy
From teaching content to teaching students Inquiry-based Collaboration Authentic learning and assessment
Realization about what’s important Essential questions Big ideas Overarching ideas
+What does DIFFERENTIATION look like?
+How can this benefit my
students?
Students often have difficulties with reading, writing, reasoning, remembering, or organizing information
Opportunities to work with appropriate concepts and technology tools and in groups of peers with a range of backgrounds and abilities
Develop strengths and apply creativity to material and products that interest them
Still “tests” the content just using different products as the “output” Content, process, product
Multiple Intelligence Survey
Birmingham Grid for Learning
Understand your learning style as a teacher
Teachers often “teach” to their own learning style
Understand the learning style of your students
Surf Aquarium
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Multiple Intelligences
Visual / Spatial (PICTURE SMART)
Verbal / Linguistic (WORD SMART)
Intrapersonal (MYSELF SMART)
Auditory / Musical / Rhythmic (MUSIC SMART)
Logical / Mathematical (NUMBER SMART)
Naturalist / Physical World (NATURE SMART)
Tactile / Bodily / Kinesthetic (BODY SMART)
Interpersonal (PEOPLE SMART)
Existential (WONDER SMART)
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+Discovery Education
Video library 80,000 video clips Tied to state and national
standards
Teacher Center Calendar Lesson Plan Library
Classroom Tools Assignment Builder Quiz Builder Writing Prompt Builder
Professional Development Discovery Education Webinar
Series
www.discoveryeducation.com
Other Content Resources:
Thinkfinity
Brain Pop
PA Standards Aligned Systems
Quizlet
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Explore and Play!
8-10 minutes
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+Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0
Web 2.0 is the term used to describe the use of web technology to create, share, and collaborate with others.
Web 2.0 applications allow users to do more than just retrieve information. Web 2.0 allows users to participate and interact.
Web 1.0 vs. 2.0 Comparison Chart Web 1.0 Web 2.0
Reading Writing
Companies Communities
Client-server Peer-to-peer
Home pages/Personal websites Blogs
Portals RSS (Really Simple Syndication)
Wires Wireless
Owning Sharing
Netscape Google
Dial-up Broadband
Hardware costs Bandwidth costs
Britannica Online Wikipedia
Content management systems Wikis
Directories (taxonomy) Tagging (“folksonomy”)
Read only Read/write/collaborate
Individual intelligence Collective intelligence
Static Dynamic
Commercial/Proprietary Open source/shared
Web 2.0 is Here!19
Web 2.0 A to Z
http://web20atoz.wikispaces.com/Sites+A+to+Z
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60 in 60http://60in60.wikispaces.com/
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Integrate to Differentiate
http://farr-integratingit.net/Trainings/Differentiate/index.htm
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Create your own social network
Can join other nings that interest you
Ning.com
+Google Docs
Edit anytime, from anywhere
Choose who can access your docs
Share changes in real time
www.docs.google.com
Free
Collaborative Creation, Accessibility, & Peer Review
+ Other Content Tools:
Wallwisher
Edistorm
Poll Everywhere
Explore and Play!
8-10 minutes
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Web 2.0: Cool Tools for Schools
http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/
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Useful examples
Revised version of Bloom’s Taxonomy
Tic Tac Toe
Integrate to Differentiate Examples
Tools for Reading, Writing, & Thinking
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+ Animoto
Create 30 second videos from still photos with music
Really easy for students
Animoto Example 10th grade student
Animoto.com
Free
+Create-a-Graph
Create a graph to represent information visually
Bar
Pie
Line
Area
XY
Create a Graph
Free
+Inquiry-based Learning
Critical Information Literacy Protocol
RADCAB-Online Information Evaluation Relevancy Appropriateness Detail Currency Authority Bias
Mind Meister Web 2.0 Tools33
http://www.mindmeister.com/9002694/tools-to-enhance-your-personal-learning-environment
http://www.mindmeister.com/9002694/tools-to-enhance-your-personal-learning-environment
Mind Meister – Zoom in34
Mind Meister Web 2.0 Tools35
http://www.mindmeister.com/9002694/tools-to-enhance-your-personal-learning-environment
http://www.mindmeister.com/9002694/tools-to-enhance-your-personal-learning-environment
Differentiated Instruction
Think for a moment about varying the following in your assignments: CONTENT PROCESS PRODUCT
Discuss with a partner ONE EXAMPLE of how to differentiate the CONTENT
Discuss with a partner ONE EXAMPLE of how to differentiate the PROCESS
Discuss with a partner ONE EXAMPLE of how to differentiate the PRODUCT
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+21st+Century+Teaching+and+Learning
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