DifferentiatedInstruction

Purpose: Research shows that differentiated instruction through cooperative learning promotes student achievement, however, moving from a traditional to a team model can be daunting. Learn why differentiated instruction and cooperative learning works and how you can make it work for you. Please bring a laptop and lesson planning material to this session.
 * Differentiated Instruction/Cooperative Learning **

Objectives: · Participants will understand the importance of differentiated instruction and cooperative learning · Participants will explore different strategies to integrate differentiated instruction and cooperative learning · Participants will create at least one teaching unit using differentiated instruction and cooperative learning. Pre-requisites: ** (1) Complete a [|learning style inventory] and come prepared to discuss your learning style and ways a teacher could help you learn better. If you can print your results, please do so, or at the least write them down. (2) Join the wiki as an editing member.

Topics to include: · Multiple Intelligence & Learning Styles · Differentiating Instruction with Menus · RAFT Writing · Tiered Assigments

// What is your preferred learning style? List at least five ways that a teacher could help you learn better by taking your learning style into account. // Post your response in the discussion tab. Read all posts and respond/reply to at least two.
 * Please Do Now **


 * Exploration **

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Explore these websites: Choice Boards Tiered Assignments 1 Tiered Assignments 2 RAFT

Did you figure it out yet? That tiering assignments can be made easy using choice menus? That tiering writing can be done using the RAFT strategy? Bingo! When teachers deliver content to ALL students through differentiation, everyone has the same and equal opportunity to learn.


 * Application of Today's Learning **

Don't forget that teachers need to explicitly teach expectations through scaffolding and modeling. View this short video: Scaffolding DI media type="file" key="Differentiated instruction- scaffolding model.3gp" width="384" height="384" (1) Using your own content, create lesson/unit plans for a choice, tiered, **and** RAFT assignments. Upload your activities to the wiki. Review at least one other teacher’s work and offer feedback. (2) How to upload a file to this page: View the tutorial. media type="file" key="UploadingFileinWiki.swf" width="360" height="270"


 * Click the "edit" tab (upper right) and an editing version of this page opens. From the tool bar, click file, then upload file, browse for file, click on file (it will upload to the window), click on uploaded file (it will automatically embed on the wikipage). Click save.
 * To review files: Click the file to open the file. It will open in the application used.
 * Below the file, here in the wiki, type in your peer review (include your name).
 * Rule of thumb: use the 2+2 feedback protocol: state 2 positives and then offer 2 areas for improvement, clarification, etc.
 * Again, use the edit tab to open the page. Scroll down to where you want to insert text. Begin typing. Click save.

Other Resources:

Response to Intervention: Tiered Learning media type="file" key="Response to Intervention A Tiered Approach to Instructing All Students.3gp" width="409" height="409"

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__ Uploaded Activities & Peer Review __

Maureen A Givens For my 11th grade Inclusion English, I may use a Tic-Tac-Toe template that has reading comprehension questions encompassing various levels from Bloom's Taxonomy. I am currently teaching Last of the Mohicans novel unit, which is divided into 4 sub units. We will be finishing up the last sub unit this week, and plan to use the Tic-Tac-Toe strategy following that.

Also, as a follow-up writing prompt, I may use the RAFT strategyaracters and situations from the novel. For the students with IEP's, I would give them the F- Format, and T-Topic. They would then be given a list/bank of choices for the R-Role and A-Audience. I also found the attached RAFT rubric which I would adapt according to my needs, and provide students with before they begin writing, so they can understand what I want and how they will be graded.