Differentiated instruction

collecting data, teach whole group instruction, and break students into leveled skills groups for…

options and afterschool Monday and Tuesday Professional Development time will be utilized. The teachers will require professional development on how to differentiate their lessons as well as how to target struggling students through small group instruction. Therefore, on Mondays, PD will be devoted to such. Additionally, common planning time will be devoted to teachers meeting within their grade and content teams to create common assessments. Through careful teacher programming/scheduling,…

To summarize the article Adolescent Literacy and Differentiated Instruction by Barbara King Shaver and Alyce Hunter is to describe how adolescent literacy is defined using reading, writing, and a variety of social and intellectual practices speaks to the way teenagers make sense of their world now and in the future. The students will use what they have learned in school and outside of the school to communicate. This includes speaking, reading, writing, listening, viewing and use of technology.…

Outcome 5 Although I am inexperienced when it comes to planning lessons for classroom instruction, I do know that one of the most effective means of instruction comes through differentiated instruction. This is the basis for much of education, with the main goal of helping to reach all kids and help them to realize their full potential in the field of academics. Teachers must also be prepared when it comes time to teach a lesson. It is vital to utilize the time in the classroom to focus on…

days since Aug 25, 2015. Past and current grades : Differentiated instruction 2nd grade level and modified grading: Current Grades: Reading /Language Arts --%, Math --%, Writing N, Social Studies --%, Science --%, Conduct N Work samples: Reading: Wyatt does not willingly participate in reading activities especially when his has to read a text and writing a response about what he has read. He continues to require differentiated/modified instruction for all subject areas, to include writing,…

PART A: I agree with Carol Tomlinson’s statement about curriculum being the ultimate identifier of potential. Potential is having or showing capacity to become or develop into something in the future. School curriculum is defined as the course of study observed by the school. I do believe that the curriculum has to reflect the student’s needs to be the ultimate identifier of potential. We know that all students learn differently. We also know that there are three types of learning styles: there…

classroom” (Ryan & Cooper, 2013, p. 73). This is a good definition but I believe that inclusion is more than just educating a student along with their peers. It requires collaboration with others, Response to Intervention (RTI), and Differentiate Instruction (DI). Philosophical Statement I believe that collaboration is one of the key factors in having an inclusive classroom. I feel that every student should benefit from this, not just the special education student. Collaboration requires…

Differentiated Assessment The Common Core State Standard being assessed for mastery is Kindergarten Language Arts. Universal Design for Learning and Differential Learning are complementary of Common Core State Standards. All students benefit by adding Universal Design for Learning and Differential Learning in conjunction to the Common Core State Standards. According to Puckett, K (2013) , “Instruction is varied, so students can take in information in different ways, use different approaches…

It is time for small group differentiated instruction. The teacher calls over a group of learners to the table. The learners pick books out of a bin of books that the group has already read in prior meetings. The teacher picks one of the learners to listen to as they read one of the books. As the learner begins to read the teacher notices that the learner is reading very slow and word for word. The leaner is using their decoding strategies as they read to read unfamiliar words. When the learner…

Author Cathy Weselby (2014) condenses the ideals of Tomlinson and instructional differentiation into four areas: content, process, product, and learning environment (para. 2). Many of the content and learning strategies implemented by KIPP Truth Academy’s educators align to the practices detailed by Tomlinson and Zemelman. After analyzing the school’s low performance scores in writing, administration and internal stakeholders saw a need to increase students’ performance scores. To close this…