The document discusses differentiation and strategies to support it in the classroom. It defines differentiation as ensuring students have options for taking in information, organizing ideas, and expressing what they learn. The document promotes creating a learning environment that incorporates formative assessment, student choice, and strategies like graphic organizers to aid student understanding. Areas that support differentiation include assessment, student choice, and using strategies that are both simple and encourage long-term student choice.

1. Differentiation
Making Sure We Have Their Number
and We Aim for It!

2. What is It?

3. http://goo.gl/j5m3T
From Tomlinson_QualityDI.pdf, ASCD San Antonio March 2010

4. Sternberg’s Three Intelligences
Creative
Analytical
Practical

5. Shaking
It
UP
Students need options for taking information in, organizing and making sense of ideas,
and expressing what they learn

6. Slide From Tomlinson ASCD Presentation 2010

8. Why do IT?
Mind, Brain, Education Research

9. Create a Learning Environment
Flow and Zone

10. Areas Supporting Differentiation
Assessment
• Pre-/Diagnostic
• Formative
Student Choice
• Task
• Content

11. Understanding Assessment

12. Strategies
• Formative Assessment
• Informs further differentiation
• Simple, short
– Compact knowledge
– Student self Assessment/Metacognition
• Longer
– Layered
– Tiered Assessment
– Branched Assessments

13. Assessment Tools
Assessment Informs Differentiation
• Google Forms
– Flubaroo - http://goo.gl/KfRdL
• Google Docs
• OneNote Shared Notebooks
• Evernote Shared Notebook
• Blogs
• RSS- Google Reader

14. Slide From Tomlinson ASCD Presentation 2010

15. Scamper Prompts

16. From Tomlinson_QualityDI.pdf, ASCD San Antonio March 2010

17. 3-2-1
3 Things You Learned
2 Things You Want to Know
1 Thing You Are Unsure About

18. Misconception via Images

19. Socrative

20. Graphic Organizers/Mind Maps
Make Student Understanding Explicit
Visual Learner
Aids Focus
Use as Scaffolding –
support to help students make connections
Tools
Bubbl.us Mindomo
Spiderscribe Mindmeister

21. Simple, Short Strategies
• Diigo Annotations
• LiveBinder

22. Long Term - Student Choice
• Choice Board
• Total 10 Board

23. Layered Curriculum
• The C Layer is the basic layer of competency and reflects what all students
must do. If students successfully complete the tasks required in the C
Layer, they earn a C grade. These activities typically ask students to collect
factual information.
• The B Layer provides students with the opportunity to apply, manipulate,
and play with the information they gathered while completing the C Layer
activities. Students who successfully complete the C and B Layers can
earn a B grade.
• The A Layer asks students to think critically about an issue. It consists of
questions that ask students to analyze a topic. frequently, no right or
wrong answer exists. Students who successfully complete C, B, and A
Layers can earn an A grade.

24. Tiered Curriculum

25. Billiard Balls- Daveblog, pool-group http://www.flickr.com/photos/36596365@N00/109424137/
Marbles – marbles- whodeenee’s http://www.flickr.com/photos/25527283@N06/2711954094/
Buddhas –buddhas, youareyouratman http://www.flickr.com/photos/68084379@N00/114239128/
Slide 6/7 Tomlinson ASCD 2010Slide 8 Dewck Mindset – Nigel Holmes
Brain in man –Inside, Andrew Mason http://www.flickr.com/photos/34754790@N00/4006709/
Shaken - http://www.flickr.com/photos/zenoptic/4452880/sizes/l/
Goals - http://www.flickr.com/photos/13152844@N00/90580061/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/69699012@N00/130537193/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/67499195@N00/3903369299/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/57038667@N00/4075970439/
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27. Tomlinson Sample RAFT
Slide From Tomlinson ASCD Presentation 2010

29. Role of Community – Classroom and School
A Manifesto for Contemporary Learning
Christian Long-http://chrislott.org/story/the-future-of-learning-manifesto-christian-long/