Leveraging Technology to Differentiate Instruction
Teachers
in Differentiated Classrooms are students of their students
Author
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What to consider?
- learning styles, skills levels and rates
- Language proficiency
- Background information and knowledge
- Interests
- Motivation
- Social/emotional development
- Various intelligences
Why do we need to differentiate?
I expect you all to be independent, innovative and critical thinkers who do exactly what I say.
Accommodations Finder is a free database of accommodation ideas to help students to attain the Common Core Standards while holding those students to the same learning expectations as peers
The Intervention Planner for Academics is a free online tool that lets educators put together customized academic intervention plans to address reading, writing, and math issues for struggling learners. Once you have created an academic intervention plan, you can download the plan in text or PDF format and even email it to others.
The Intervention Planner for Behavior is a free application that allows teachers, administrators, and other school personnel to browse a range of strategies to improve student behaviors and to develop customized behavior-management plans for individual students, small groups, or even an entire class. Once you have created a unique behavior plan, you can download the plan in text or PDF format and even email it to others. And if you have a free Intervention Central account, you can also save behavior plans that you create online for later retrieval.
Web 2.0 tools and Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy Examples
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http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/Reference/images/web_2_Bloom.jpg, and
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