Differentiated Instruction

Candy TrateJim Ellis

Agenda

• What is DI?• Know Your Students• Know Your Content• DI by ContentProcessProduct• Strategies:– Tiered Instruction– Menus– Centers

• Sum It Up!!

Definition of Differentiated Instruction

Definition Before Video Definition After Video

Know Your Students and Self

• Interest Surveys• Roles on a Team• Learning Styles– http://ttc.coe.uga.edu/surveys/LearningStyleInv.html

Learning StylesWhat Learning Style best fits you? _____________________________

What are your listed Learning Strengths?______________________________________________________________________

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What teaching strategies affect you the most?______________________________________________________________________

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Do you think your learning styles affects how you teach your classes?______________________________________________________________________

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Know Your Content

K.U.D.

Know, Understand and DoKnow (Concepts) Understand (Big Ideas) Do (Skills/Competencies)

Content—Process—Product

Resources

• Differentiation Central– www.diffcentral.com

• A Different Place– www.adifferentplace.org

• Dare to Differentiate– http://daretodifferentiate.wikispaces.com