4. What should I pre-assess?
Readiness
“A student’s entry
point to a particular
understanding or
skill.”
Interest
“Refers to a child’s
affinity, curiosity, or
passion for a
particular topic or
skill.”
Learning
Profile
“It is shaped by
intelligence
preferences, gender,
culture, or learning
style.”
Pre-Assessment
Adapted from The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners (Tomlinson, 1999).
5. Where should I pre-assess?
Learning Styles:
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Online Pre-Assessment
6. Teachers
can differentiate based on
student readiness, interest, or learning
profile:
◦ Content – what the student needs to learn or how the
student will get access to the information;
◦ Process – activities in which the student engages in
order to make sense of or master the content;
◦ Products – culminating projects that ask the student to
rehearse, apply, and extend what he or she has learned
in a unit; and
◦ Learning environment – the way the classroom works
and feels.
7. •
Pre-testing identifies students who do not
require direct instruction
•
“Compacting the curriculum,” students
pretesting out of direct instruction can
skip the instruction step and proceed to
apply the concepts to solving a problem
•
Another way to differentiate content is to
let student adjust their rate of progress
Content
essential understandings and skills
8. Can
I measure a book or piece of text on my
own?
◦ Within MS Office: You can also check the readability level
of a passage using the Flesch Reading Ease and the FleschKincaid Grade Level built into the newest versions of
Microsoft® Word. In Word 2007, to display readability
statistics...
* Click the Microsoft Office button, click Word options, and
click proofing.
* Put a check in the box for check grammar with spelling.
* Under when correcting grammar in Word, select the show
readability statistics check box.
* When Microsoft® Word finishes checking spelling and
grammar, it displays information about the reading level of
the document.
How can I find Reading Level?
11. •
How the material is learned can be changed
on a per student basis considering their
learning styles
•
Allows students to learn based either on what
method is easiest for them to acquire
knowledge, or what may challenge them
most
•
Information may be presented in multiple
ways by the teacher, and may be based on
any available methods or materials
Process
appropriate methods for students to
explore concepts
17. What
the student produces in the end to
demonstrates mastery of the content
Teachers
may assign students OR allow students
to select a product
Product
dictates which components of
differentiation may be selected; can impact both
the ‘content’ and ‘process’
Allowing
students various ways of demonstrating
what they have learned from the lesson or unit
Product
varying the complexity of the product
21. •
differentiated based on learning styles allows
students to learn based either on the method:
easiest for them to acquire knowledge OR what
may challenge them most
•
varying teaching strategies makes sure that
students will occasionally learn in a manner
compatible with their own learning preference
but also expands their exposure to alternative
learning strategies
•
alternative ways to manipulate ideas within a
concept
Environment
manipulating the environment or
accommodate individual learning styles
22. You
can video conference within the
district from a webcam at your desk to
another desktop with webcam
Set
up a time for an eLS to come
demonstrate, download your software and
get you started
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Editor's Notes
ePortfolios, ultimate in DI as each HAS to be independently created, maintained.
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It is done by using menu unit sheets, choice boards or open-ended lists of final product options. It is meant to allow students to show what they learned based on their learning preferences, interests and strengths.
Podcasting is a new feature that has been recently turned on within Teacher Pages.
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Once the Planner is complete it becomes your active Project. You can give the password to students, allow them to choose OR assign certain students to certain groups.
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