This document discusses differentiated instruction and strategies for meeting the needs of diverse learners. It provides information on learning styles and percentages of students who may be at risk depending on their dominant learning style. Some key strategies mentioned include using interactive techniques, paying attention to student successes and struggles, challenging students to think and explain their ideas, and allowing students to express themselves in unique ways. The document emphasizes that students do not all start in the same place, learn in the same way, or at the same pace, and teachers need to differentiate their instruction to help all students learn.

1. Topic #7: Brain Compatible Teaching
(Pt. 3)
Differentiated Instruction:
One Size Does Not Fit All

4. http://www.zonesofregulation.com/

5. Sensory Rooms

6. Let’s Play:
The Deep Breathe
Sticky Fingers
Be a Hero/Carwash

8. Teacher
Mindset
Or
Student
Mindset?
***
Professional
Mindset
or
Non-
professional
Mindset?

11. Think
WinWin

12. How do we help students
to get “in the zone”?
Working Interactively
Winning Independently

15. Teachers Need to Model
In everything they do

16. BIG QUESTION:
What DI Strategies can
help us as teachers to
meet the needs of our
students?

18. Options for
Differentiated
Instruction
How do we get to know our students
BEFORE we teach them?

20. Myers-Briggs Personality Type
http://www.personalitypathways.com/type_inventory.html
Learning Styles Inventory
http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html
True Colors Personality Test
http://www.truecolorscareer.com/quiz.asp
Emotional Intelligence Inventory
http://www.ihhp.com/quiz.htm
Brain Dominance
http://brain.web-us.com/brain/braindominance.htm
Multiple Intelligence Inventory
http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/b/x/bxb11/MI/MIQuiz.htm
Visual/Tactile/Auditory Learners
» Learning Styles Test 1
I.Q. Tests
http://www.wizardrealm.com/tests/intelligence.html
The Gray-Wheelwright-Winer 4-letter Type Indicator Test
http://www.gesher.org/gwtest/gwtest.html
Kolb’s Learning Styles Inventory:
http://chat.carleton.ca/~tblouin/Kolb's%20Leaning%20Styles%20Mode
l/kolbs%20test.htm

23. Learning Task: DI Experts
• Gather in your “Tech Teams”
• Create a “Concept Map” or “Mind
Map” for the DI strategy that your
team is assigned to
• Use digital tools such as
https://bubbl.us/ or
http://www.gliffy.com/
• Share using Twitter (#EDES340)

38. Mastery Learners: % of “at risk” - 12%
% of population= ____
Interpersonal Learners:% of “at risk” - 63%
% of population= ____
Want to learn practical information and procedures.
Like drills, lectures, demonstrations, and practice.
May experience difficulty when learning becomes too
abstract or when faced with open-ended questions.
Learn best when instruction is focused on modeling new
skills, practicing, and feedback sessions.
Want to learn about things that affect people’s lives.
Like group experiences, discussions, cooperative learning
activities, role playing, personal attention.
May experience difficulty when instruction focuses on
independent seatwork or when learning lacks real-world
application.
Learn best when their teacher pays attention to their
successes and struggles.
Understanding Learners: % of “at risk” - 1%
% of population= ____
Self-Expressive Learners: % of “at risk” - 24%
% of population= ____
Want to use logic, debate, and inquiry to
investigate ideas.
Like reading, debates, research projects,
independent study, making cases or arguments, asking
“Why?”
May experience difficulty when there is a focus on the
social environment of the classroom (e.g. cooperative
learning)
Learn best when they are challenged to think and explain
their ideas.
Want to use their imaginations to explore ideas.
Like creative and artistic activities, open-ended
& non-routine problem, generating possibilities
and alternatives, asking “What if?”
May experience difficulty when instruction focuses on drill
and practice and rote problem solving.
Learn best when they are invited to express themselves in
unique and original ways.

39. Numeracy
Add the %s into
the blanks:
2%
6%
12%
12%
36%
38%
38%
56%

40. What is your
teaching
style?
How will you
teach your
students who
have
different
learning
styles?
How will you
differentiate?

41. THINK Differently
“If we want to have engaged brains in
the classroom, we have to have an
interactive environment”
…Spencer Kagan
“Fairness is everyone getting
what they need in school”
…Martha Kaufeldt
“All kids in our society are at risk
…Dr. Martin Brokenleg
“We have school-induced ADHD because
schools aren’t brain compatible with the
brains of today’s children”
…Dr. David Sousa
“Kids don’t start at the same place,
they don’t learn in the same way,
and they don’t learn at the same pace”
…Linda Darling-Hammond
“’At risk’ students are those who leave
school before or after graduation with
little possibility of continuing learning”
…Roland Barth
There are no ‘bad’ kids, just
kids with ‘bad’ problems”
…Harold Brathwaite
“Students lose motivation to learn
because they don’t have the skills to
know how to learn.”
…Harvey Silver
“Fair isn’t always equal”
…Rick Wormeli
“All children have intelligence. We have
asked the wrong question. We ask how
much. We need to ask what kind.
…Mary Meeker

42. Differentiated
Instruction:
Think WinWin
What “WinWin” idea will you take with you today to
help better meet the needs of your learners?