The document summarizes Carol Ann Tomlinson's work on differentiated instruction. Tomlinson is a professor who researches curriculum and instruction for academically diverse learners. She defines differentiated instruction as using flexible instructional approaches to modify content, process, and products based on students' learning readiness, interests, and profiles. The document notes that students have diverse needs, styles, backgrounds and interests that teachers can accommodate through differentiated approaches to content, process, products, and learning environments. It poses questions about the benefits and challenges of implementing differentiated instruction.

2. by Carol Ann Tomlinson:
 Professor of Educational
Leadership, Foundations and
Policy at University of Virginia
(Charlottesville)
 Research Areas: -Curriculum
and Instruction for
Academically Diverse Learners/
for Critical Thinking. -School
Reform and Gifted Education
 Principal Investigator at
National Research Center on
the Gifted and Talented
 Special Project Writer for the US
Department of Education For
the Gifted and Exceptional
Children

3. “Consistently using a variety of
instructional approaches to modify
content, process, and / or products in
response to learning readiness
and interest of academically diverse
students.”

4. Diverse population
of students
Specific needs
of each Diverse learning
student styles / profiles
REASONS TO
DIFFERENTIATE:
Diverse
Cultural
academic
background
readiness
Diverse interests

5. CONTENT
PROCESS Directed to lesson’s
common focus
PRODUCTS
LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

6. Teacher directed,
teacher selected
activities
Learner centered,
learner selected
Whole class instruction, activities
Small Group instruction,
Individual instruction

8. What are aspects we
see positive and
challenging about this
proposal?
How could this proposal
enrich our personal or our
school’s practices?

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 http://www.nvcc.edu/loudoun/cte/id62.htm
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVRYSC8YyYA
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpy6rDnXNbs