differentiated Instruction (PDF)

Differentiated
Instruction

A Special Note…
Differentiated instruction is a very popular, not to mention
broad, topic in today’s educational arena. It should be noted
that this presentation is only intended to be a brief overview
of this encompassing topic. There is an enormous amount of
information about differentiated instruction and the related
concepts that are intertwined with differentiated instruction,
which could not be included within this format. To learn
more about differentiated instruction, please refer to the
“Websites” and “Resources” slides at the end of this power
point, or contact your Florida Inclusion Network facilitator at:
www.FloridaInclusionNetwork.com

Learner Objectives:
Participants will…

• Become familiar with vocabulary related to
differentiated instruction.
• Understand basic principles of differentiating
content, process, and product in an
academically diverse classroom.
• Be able to implement one or more
instructional strategies that support
differentiation.

As you know, students come to our classrooms
with a variety of:
Prior
Educational
Experiences

Motivators
Personal
Experiences

Readiness
Levels

Unfortunately, some classroom structures
do not address this student diversity. In
fact…

The biggest mistake of past centuries in
teaching has been to treat all children as if
they were variants of the same individual
and thus to feel justified in teaching them
all the same subjects in the same way.
-Howard Gardner

Let’s take a look at the instructional
strategies we typically use in our
classrooms and see how they effect our
students’ memory retention rates.

You might want to get a piece of paper and a
pencil to see if you can guess the correct answers.

Effective Instructional Strategies
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Least
Effective

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Most Effective

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㻷㼈㼄㼆㼋㻃㼄㼑㼒㼗㼋㼈㼕
㻤㼘㼇 㼌㼒㻒㼙㼌㼖㼘㼄㼏㼖
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㻵㼈㼄㼇 㼌㼑㼊
㻯㼈㼆㼗㼘㼕㼈

Effective Instructional Strategies
How’d you do?

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㻘㻈
㻵㼈㼄㼇 㼌㼑㼊 㻃㻔 㻓 㻈
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㻧㼌㼖㼆㼘㼖㼖㼌㼒㼑㻃㻘 㻓 㻈

㻳㼕㼄㼆㼗㼌㼆㼈㻃㼅 㼜㻃㼇 㼒㼌㼑㼊 㻃㻚 㻘 㻈
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So now you have a classroom of diverse
The Million
Dollar
Question:
learners…
and you
know
that some of
our past teaching strategies are not
going to be effective with them…So,
the million dollar question is…

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㼐 㼈㼈㼗㻃㼗㼋㼈㻃㼑㼈㼈㼇 㼖㻃㼒㼉㻃㼗㼋㼈
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