Differentiation for all

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Salisbury Township School District

Allentown, Pennsylvania


Jennifer L. Aponick, Supervisor of Special Education

Jennifer Brinson, Instructional Coach

One Size Does Not Fit All:
Differentiation for all
students

Differentiation Self Assessment

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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)

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Technology Integration serves as
an excellent vehicle to help
educators achieve the goal of
differentiating instruction

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www.challengeyourstudents.org


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Differentiated Instruction
Principles


Acceptance and respect of differences

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Materials and tasks at varied level of difficulty

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Motivates students to work to their highest potential

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Meaningful learning that emphasizes essential questions

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Teachers who serve as facilitators of learning and use an array of
strategies that connect instruction to student needs

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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

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Inquiry
-
based

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Collaboration

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Authentic learning and assessment

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Realization about what’s important

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Essential questions

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Big ideas

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Overarching ideas

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What does DIFFERENTIATION

look like?

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How can this benefit my students?

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Students often have difficulties with reading, writing,
reasoning, remembering, or organizing information

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Opportunities to work with appropriate concepts and
technology tools and in groups of peers with a range of
backgrounds and abilities

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Develop strengths and apply creativity to
material and products that interest them

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Still “tests” the content just using
different products as the “output”

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Content, process, product

Multiple Intelligence Survey

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Birmingham Grid for Learning

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Understand your learning style as a teacher

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Teachers often “teach” to their own learning style

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Understand the learning style of your students




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Multiple Intelligences

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Visual / Spatial
(PICTURE SMART)

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Verbal / Linguistic

(WORD SMART)

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Intrapersonal

(MYSELF SMART)

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Auditory / Musical / Rhythmic
(MUSIC SMART)

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Logical / Mathematical
(NUMBER SMART)

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Naturalist / Physical World
(NATURE SMART)

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Tactile / Bodily / Kinesthetic

(BODY SMART)

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Interpersonal

(PEOPLE SMART)

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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

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Professional Development


Discovery Education Webinar
Series


www.discoveryeducation.com

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Passcode: 0f84
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7f6a

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SHS Registration

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Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0

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Web 2.0 is the term used to
describe the use of web
technology to
create
,
share
, and
collaborate
with others
.

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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
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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!

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Web 2.0 A to Z

http://web20atoz.wikispaces.com/Sites+A+to+Z


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60 in 60

http://60in60.wikispaces.com/

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Integrate to Differentiate

http://farr
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integratingit.net/Trainings/Differentiate/index.htm


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
Create your own social
network

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Can join other nings that
interest you

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Ning.com

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Free

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Google Docs

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Edit anytime, from anywhere

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Choose who can access your
docs

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Share changes in real time

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www.docs.google.com

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Free

Collaborative Creation, Accessibility, & Peer Review

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Schedule an event

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Schedule a meeting

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Determine the best
time/date for all
participants

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Create a poll

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www.Doodle.com

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Free


No registration required

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Real time collaboration for the
web

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Shared workspace with others

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Chat

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Draw

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Add content from
anywhere

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http://thinkature.com/

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Free


Registration is required

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Web 2.0: Cool Tools for Schools

http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/


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Useful examples

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Revised version
of Bloom’s Taxonomy

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Tic Tac Toe

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Integrate to Differentiate Examples

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Tools for Reading, Writing, & Thinking

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Animoto

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Create 30 second videos from
still photos with music

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Really easy for students


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Animoto Example

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10
th

grade student

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Animoto.com


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Free

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Create
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a
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Graph

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Create a graph to represent
information visually

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Bar

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Pie

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Line

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Area

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XY

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Create A Graph

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Free

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Inquiry
-
based Learning

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Critical Information Literacy Protocol

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RADCAB
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Online Information Evaluation

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Relevancy

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Appropriateness

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Detail

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Currency

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Authority

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Bias

Mind Meister Web 2.0 Tools

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http://www.mindmeister.com/9002694/tools
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to
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enhance
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your
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personal
-
learning
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environment

Mind Meister
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Zoom in

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Mind Meister Web 2.0 Tools

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http://www.mindmeister.com/9002694/tools
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to
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enhance
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your
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personal
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learning
-
environment

Differentiated Instruction

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Think for a moment about varying the following in your assignments:

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CONTENT

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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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Questions ?








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Presentation is available at:

http://www.stsd.org/webpages/jbrinson/reso
urces.cfm



and

on the shared directory under:

Brinson/classnotes/techstrategyresources