The document discusses differentiating instruction to meet the needs of diverse students. It defines differentiating instruction as establishing an environment conducive to teaching and learning, selecting appropriate instructional strategies, and providing varied opportunities for students to demonstrate knowledge. The document also outlines Howard Gardner's nine ways students show achievement, including verbal-linguistic, mathematical-logical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, musical, visual-spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, naturalist, and existential. Finally, it discusses differentiating content, process, product, and environment based on students' learning modalities of visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and multimodal.