1 Differentiated Instruction for Science Resource Type: Professional Resources Discipline: Science Grades: Grades PreK–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This professional resource defines differentiated instruction, discusses how it's implemented, and provides differentiation strategies that can be used in the science classroom. These strategies provide science teachers with the focus of the differentiation, the definition of the strategy and an example for how it may be effectively used in the classroom. (author/cb) 2 Differentiating Science Instruction Resource Type: Professional Resources Discipline: Science Grades: Grades PreK–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This professional resource explains why science is an ideal content area for differentiating instruction. It also describes instructional choices for differentiated instruction based on several different factors such as students' needs and abilities, learning preferences, interest, ability, and expertise. This resource also gives specific examples of instructional strategies for implementing differentiated instruction. (author/cb) 3 Differentiating Instruction: A Modified Concerto in Four Movements Resource Type: General Education Resources Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 5–12 Professional Commentary: In order to be able to differentiate instruction for the many needs of today's diverse learners, professional educators must be experts in four areas: students, curriculum, cognitive theory, and differentiated instruction practices. This demanding "concerto" with four distinct movements is one which teachers can compose, and one that is worth performing with each new group of... 4 Computer-Assisted Instruction and Science Resource Type: Professional Resources Discipline: Science Grades: Grades PreK–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This professional resource discusses how computer-assisted instruction improves instruction for students with disabilities because students receive immediate feedback and do not continue to practice the wrong skills. Many online activities allow students to move through instruction at the student’s pace and keep track of the student’s errors and progress.... 5 Adolescent Literacy In Perspective, February 2007, Differentiating Instruction in Secondary Classrooms Resource Type: Professional Resources Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 7–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: The February 2007 issue of AdLIT's In Perspective focuses on differentiating instruction in secondary classrooms. The entire issue can be downloaded, and regular columns include the following: (1) featured article; (2) classroom vignettes; (3) student voices; (4) a look at the Ohio Graduation Test; (5) for your bookshelf; and (6) resources from the ORC collection.... 6 Differentiating the Language Arts for High Ability Learners Resource Type: Professional Resources Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades K–12 Professional Commentary: Adapting a language arts curriculum for varied learners is a challenge. Educators need to accommodate language arts for gifted students as well as others.... 7 Middle School Science: Access for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder Resource Type: Professional Resources Discipline: Science Grades: Grades PreK–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This professional resource provide science teachers with information about students’ specific disabilities and the strategies that will help these students achieve in the science classroom. Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) make up one set of students that requires support in the general education science classroom.... 8 Differentiation at the Secondary Level Resource Type: Professional Resources Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 7–12 Professional Commentary: Rick Wormeli's "Differentiating Instruction in Secondary Classrooms" is the featured article in this issue (February 2007) of AdLIT's In Perspective. Wormeli, a teacher and author of five books, encourages educators to put aside any preconceived notions they might have about what is casually defined as "differentiated instruction" in order to establish a "common frame of... 9 Differentiated Instruction in the English Classroom [excerpt]: Chapter 4, "How Do Teachers Manage a Differentiated Classroom?" Resource Type: Professional Resources Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: Differentiated instruction is a recognition that students vary in their needs, interests, abilities, and prior knowledge. It is a springboard from which students work toward the same ends, but they use different content, processes, and products to get there.... 10 Fair Isn't Always Easy: Assessing and Grading in the Differentiated Classroom [excerpt]: Chapter 1, "The Differentiated Instruction Mind-set: Rationale and Definition" Resource Type: Professional Resources Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: This professional resource is the first chapter of Rick Wormeli's book, Fair Isn't Always Easy: Assessing and Grading in the Differentiated Classroom. In this chapter, Wormeli provides a definition of differentiated instruction; in addition, he uses examples from classroom differentiation and from adult life.... |