The document discusses how teachers can use a variety of technological resources to implement differentiated instruction in their classrooms. Differentiated instruction involves tailoring lessons, materials, and assessments to meet the individual needs of students. With online lesson plans, activities, and videos, teachers have many options for incorporating different learning styles. The document provides examples of how teachers can differentiate, such as using varying worksheets or separating students into small groups. It emphasizes that technology has made differentiated instruction much easier for teachers by providing abundant resources and guidance.

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Ashton Booher
Dr. Conrath
SLIS 220
11 October 2012
The Variety of Resources Available and How the Resources Are Helpful in
Differentiating Instruction
With so many advances in technology, teachers can use the vast numbers of
resources to improve the way they teach. As a future educator, I know that making lesson
plans can be difficult for an entire class and that it is even harder to tailor every
assignment to students’ specific needs. However, technology and the variety of resources
make it easier to plan lessons and incorporate every type of ways students learn. With
online lesson plans, games and activities, and educational videos teachers can now find
ways to incorporate every learning style. By doing this the teacher will be able to better
educate students on every level in their classroom.
Differentiated instruction is giving each student the tools they need to achieve at
high levels. For example giving students different worksheets depending on their
understanding and building their knowledge level up so that eventually they can complete
the higher-level worksheets. By doing this, the teacher simply gives students more time
to work on what they need to. However, this does not mean that the expectations change
between levels or that the teacher should focus only on the struggles. This means that the
teacher should keep expectations high and focus on the students’ strengths as well.
Another way that teachers could achieve differentiated instruction is by separating people
into small groups. This would provide time to work with each group on what they need

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(Allan). Differentiated instruction is a good way for teachers to specialize the curriculum
for each student. It is especially important to include different types of instruction now
that teachers have access to all types of resources.
Teachers can go about differentiating instruction in many ways and the easiest
place to start is online. A teacher has a wide variety of resources available to them on the
internet to help them create these differentiated instruction lesson plans. Some websites
can give video resources, sample lesson plans, and advice on how to go about this type of
instruction. For example, this one teacher talked about how he let some of his students
read on top of desks, which sparked a joy to read in these students who usually fell asleep
during reading time (Hull-Sypnieski and Ferlazzo). It is interesting to see how easily you
can change the instruction type to spark an interest in a certain subject that was
previously uninteresting. Different types of these resources are all over the internet and
teachers have access to a lot of informative resources and ways to incorporate different
types of instruction.
It is important for teachers to understand the power of differentiated instruction
and how readily available they have resources to make this type of instruction possible.
At one point differentiating instruction would have been almost impossible to
accomplish, but now in the time of technology it is easier that it ever has been. There are
plenty of resources that can help teachers with things to include in their lesson plans as
well as making lesson plans around this way of instruction.

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Works Cited
Allan, Susan. "Differentiated Instruction, Curriculum, Assessment." Differentiated
Instruction, Curriculum, Assessment. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Oct. 2012.
<http://www.differentiatedinstruction.net/>.
Hull-Sypnieski, Katie, and Larry Feriazzo. "The Five-by-Five Approach to
Differentiation Success." Education Week Teacher. Teacher Leaders Network,
2012. Web. 11 Oct. 2012. <http://www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2012/01/17/tln_
ferlazzo_hull-sypnieski.html>.