1. Differentiating Content
for Teacher Learning

2. What is Differentiated
Instruction?
5 Classroom Elements
 Content
 What we teach
 Access to information & ideas
 Process
 How students arrive at understanding
 Products
 How students demonstrate knowledge
 Affect
 How students link thought and feelings
 Learning Environment
 How the classroom feelings and functions

3. What is Differentiated
Instruction?
3 Student Characteristics
 Readiness
 Interest
 Learning Profile

4. Differentiating Content
 What students should know
 Typically derived from multiple sources
 In the classroom defined by standards and local
curriculum
 For teachers defined by self-interest and school
improvement needs

5. Strategies for Differentiating
Content
Readiness
 Content at varied levels
 Supplementary materials
 Re-teach
 Demonstrate ideas or skills
 Use multi-media to support explanations
 Use highlighted text

6. Strategies for Differentiating
Content
Interest
 Use student questions to guide topics and materials
 Use examples based on participant interests

7. Strategies for Differentiating
Content
Learning Profile
 Present in visual, auditory, and kinesthetic modes
 Use applications, examples, and illustrations from a
wide range of intelligences

8. Examples
 Slideshare
 Glogster