At a Glance - Module 10
Quote for Module 10
Differentiation is not really one entity, but rather synthesizes a number of educational theories and practices. Bringing those theories and practices together helps teachers address their classroom activity in a manner that is more holistic than fragmented...In the end, classrooms are complex and messy places. Research that tells the full story about any classroom, school, district, or approach to teaching is also predictably messy, complex, difficult to come by, and nearly always equivocal. Such is the nature of the teaching-learning enterprise.
Carol Ann Tomlinson and Susan Demirsky Allan, Leadership for Differentiating Schools & Classrooms, 2000.
In this Module
In this module you learn advanced strategies of compacting, tiering and orbital studies. You also look at ways technology can be used to differentiate within the classroom.
Major Topics:
- Advanced differentiated instructional strategies that enhance learning within the standards
- View PowerPoint, “Thinking Maps”
- Read, “Tiering Assignments”
- Read, “Compacting”
- Read, “Pathways Plans”
- Read, “Orbital Studies”
- Consider all of the new things you have viewed in this module. Which of these items could be used in your extended implementation?
- Post a response to the prompt on discussion Forum # 10:
Resources
- Tiering, “Reading for Meaning” – Any level, any content area
- Tiering, “Examples of Tiered Assignments”
Outcomes:
- Learn new differentiated strategies
- Continuation of the 4-week implementation plan within a long-term unit or standard
Guiding Questions
1. Which strategies will work for me?
2. How can I transfer these strategies to my content area?
3. How can Thinking Maps improve my teaching and student learning?