Strategies for Differentiating Instruction: Best Practices for the Classroom

ISBN-13: 9781032361697 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 288 str.

Tracy Ford Inman

Opis

This updated edition of Strategies for Differentiating Instruction offers practical approaches that allow all students to make continuous progress and be appropriately challenged by focusing on their various levels of knowledge and readiness to learn.

Spis treści

1. One-Size-Fits-All? You’ve Got to Be Kidding!  2. Multiple Ways to Define Academic Success: What Resonates With You?  3. Climate: Creating a Comfort Zone  4. Content: Complex, Engaging, and Relevant  5. Preassessment: An Absolute Necessity  6. Tiering to Facilitate Continuous Progress  7. Tiering Learning Experiences With Bloom’s Taxonomy  8. Tiering With Venn Diagrams  9. Think-Tac-Toe: An Effective Tool for Tiering  10. Managing the Differentiated Classroom  11. Taming the Assessment Beast  12. Reflection: An Essential Practice for Lifelong Learning  13. A Differentiation Fable  Appendix A: What a Child Doesn’t Learn . . . By Tracy Inman  Appendix B: Directions for Activity: How Do You Learn It?  Appendix C: My Way…An Expression Style Inventory  Appendix D: Interest Inventory  Appendix E: Bloom Chart Template  Appendix F: Venn Diagrams  Appendix G: Letters and Boxes  Appendix H: Think-Tac-Toe Template  Appendix I: Developing and Assessing Product (DAP) Tools  Appendix J: Building Support for Differentiation: Hard But Not Impossible to Do Alone