Links for K-12 Teachers | Assessment Assistance | On-Line Practice Modules | Daily Dose of the Web

1. Learning Styles Inventory Test - a quick questionnaire designed to determine your personal learning style
2. Learning Styles Test - more detailed questionnaire with explanations and help to address the weakness and strengths, results shown on a continuum
3. Learning Styles - for younger children; This chart helps you determine your learning style.
4. Multiple Intelligence - Take this survey online to see your learning style
5. Multiple Intelligences Inventory - a snapshot in time of an individual's perceived MI preferences
6. Multiple Intellegent Snowflake - Interactive activity designed to show that everyone has all of the Intellegents in various degrees.
7. Paragon Learning Style Inventory - a self-administered survey that provides a very reliable indication of learning style and cognitive preference

1. AllKindsofMinds - "Take a close look at the skills that must be mastered, the neurodevelopmental factors that may influence student's success, and common obstacles that students may encounter on the road to mastery"
2. The Art of Differentiation - Moving from Theory to Practice
3. Bloom's Revised Taxonomy - or Bloom's Revised Taxomony PDF Sheet to print - posters and explanations
4. Curriculum Differentiation - An overview of the research into the curriculum differentiation educational strategy
5. Differentiated Instruction - What is it?
6. Differentiated Instruction - Teaching strategies, lesson plans, understanding the basic concept.
7. Differentiating Instruction - Finding Manageable Ways to Meet Individual Needs. When students are diverse, teachers can either "teach to the middle" and hope for the best, or they can face the challenge of diversifying their instruction.
8. Differentiated Instruction - Scavenger Hunt
9. Differentiated Instruction Resources -
10. Differentiating Instruction For Advanced Learners In the Mixed-Ability Middle School Classroom - By Carol Ann Tomlinson
11. Differentiated Instruction and Implications for UDL Implementation - from CAST
    1. Teaching Every Student
    2. Tools and Activities - This section of Teaching Every Student supports strategic learning by offering tutorials, tools, templates, and activities to help teachers put UDL into practice.
12. Differentiated Instruction - This article first appeared in Classroom Connect magazine, February, 2003. (posted on Dr. Gus' site with permission from Classroom Connect)
13. Finding Lost Children Through Differentiated Instruction - Article - “If the work matches my needs, I do better.”
14. Mapping a Route Toward Differentiated Instruction - (by Carol Ann Tomlinson) striving to maximize the capacity of each learner
15. Maximizing Learning in Inclusive Classrooms - Teachers who use a variety of organizational, graphic, and mnemonic aids help all students make better sense of the curriculum (a curriculum update from ASCD)
16. Reconcilable Differences? Standards-Based Teaching and Differentiation - Standards-based instruction and differentiated learning can be compatible approaches in today's classrooms. (from the magazine Educational Leadership)
17. Towards inclusive schools: a study of how a teacher facilitate differentiated instruction -a long, scholarly paper presented at the European Conference on Educational Research, Edinburgh, 20-23 September 2000.
18. Totally Positive Teaching: A Five-Stage Approach to Energizing Students and Teachers - Chapter One- Meeting Mutual Needs
19. What Differentiated Instruction Is, and Is Not

Practical Tips for the Classroom

1. Anchor Activities - what it is and how to use it in the classroom. Math Anchor Activities
2. Differentiated Instruction - from the Center on Human Policy; Disability Studies for Teachers
3. Differentiated Instruction - An approach to planning so that one lesson is taught to the entire class while meeting the individual needs of each child. (also called Multi-level Instruction)
4. Differentiated Instruction - active ideas for working with all students.
5. Differentiated Instruction Resources - Free downloads for teachers
6. Differentiated Instruction for Science - What does Differentiated Instruction look like in the Science classroom?
7. Differentiated Instruction in the English Classroom - Content, Process, Product, and Assessment
8. Dimensions of 'Differentiation' - overview of the different aspects of differentiation
9. Exit Cards - quick assessment tool for teachers to help them become more aware of student understanding of concepts taught
10. Finding Manageable Ways to Meet Individual Needs
11. High School Help (from E-Subjects, Origami for the Mind) five practices which address communication and organization
12. How to Differentiate Instruction - Plan for differences
13. How to Plan For Differentiated Instruction (scroll past the Teachnology membership index)
14. How to Work Effectively With a Heterogeneous Classroom - Follow the *flow* of instruction in a differentiated classroom
15. Instructional and Management Strategies - many ideas to help individualize lessons
16. Layered Curriculum - an exciting and effective student-centered teaching method [This page opens in a new window.]
17. Management of Learning and Differentiation - The management of learning for a range of individual differences involves three main features: Space, Time, and People
18. Mapping a Route Toward Differentiated Instruction - article about how different classrooms incorporate DI ; Annotated link
19. Nine different strategies for delivering differentiation in history - "The matching of work to the differing capabilities of individuals or groups of pupils in order to extend their learning." Handbook for the Inspection of Schools
20. Product Choices - List of ideas of products using either auditory, visual or tactile
21. Resources for Teachers - all sorts of activities and black line masters created for differentiating instruction in your classroom posted by the West Bloomfield School District
22. Strategies for Differentiating
23. Teaching in mixed-ability classrooms- article from Mary Anne Hess
24. Ten Tips for Differentiation - for students who don't "get it," or don’t seem motivated or interested
25. Tiered Curriculum Project (from the Indiana Department of Education) - An index of example lessons for each grade K-12
26. Tools for Differentiation - Best practices that have helped meet the varying needs of students.
27. Two Sides of the Same Coin - explanation and lesson plan of 8th grade
28. Using Technology to Support Diverse Learners - help teachers integrate technology into the curriculum to support diverse learners.
    

Sample Units and Lessons

1. Board Game - Directions for a board game project.
2. Causes of the Civil War - a tiered lesson plan
3. Classrooms@Work -Models of effective technology integration.
4. Differentiation Information - This is a list of sample lessons organized by grade, in MS Word format. Number of lessons: K (4), First (9), Second (1), Third (2), Fifth (4), and Eighth (2).
5. Differentiated Instruction Using Technology - an example lesson for upper elementary
6. Differentiated Learning Egyptian Project - Lesson plan for middle school - a page to print
7. Differentiated Lessons for Teachers posted by Leon County
   1. Elementary
   2. Middle/High School
8. Patterns - Math Lesson - middle school
9. Photojournalism Tiered Lesson Plan ( grades 10-12 ) - In this lesson, students explore how photographs can be interpreted as conveying rich stories to the beholder.
10. Sample Layered Curriculum Units posted by Dr. Kathie Nunley (the page starts with middle/high school but includes most middle/high subjects as well as some K-6 units near the bottom of the page)
11. Social Studies - 2nd grade lesson - Community
12. Language Arts lesson - Heros and Heroines - 7th grade

Multi-Link Sites

1. Adjust Your Teaching Styles to Students' Learning Styles - a list of links from Teacher's Network
2. Differentiating Instruction - many articles (posted by the Arizona Department of Education)

Other Documents (Word, PowerPoint, or Acrobat documents)
= a PowerPoint Show | = a document to print | = a Word document | = Adobe Acrobat document

1. Chaos: Modeling Differentiated Instruction for Pre-service Teachers - The purpose of this article is to describe an activity the authors developed meant to introduce the construct of differentiated instruction to pre-service teacher candidates.
2. Curriculum Differentiation - The Maker Model
3. Differentiated Instruction: A Research Brief for Practitioners University of Alberta -
4. Differentiated Instruction in Inclusive Classrooms - PowerPoint show by Christina E. van Kraayenoord and John Elkins, School of Education, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (23 slides)
5. Differentiated Instruction in the Foreign Language Classroom - Meeting the Diverse Needs of All Learners
6. Differentiated Instruction in Science- Clone Wars - Gail B. Wartmann ; meet the needs of science students with a variety of strengths, weaknesses and readiness.
7. Differentiated Learning within Groups - (13 slides)
8. Mapping a Route Toward Differentiated Instruction - "Students can take different roads to the same destination".
9. Sample Project list - Adapted to Learning Style and Student Interest - Topic of Study: Romeo and Juliet
10. Scence in All Sizes - Shannon Cde Baca;

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