What strategies will you use to assist the students in meeting or exceeding the proficiency levels?
Direct instruction strategies for all students
Alternative direct instruction strategies for challenging students who have advanced understanding or for students who need additional support
Student centered strategies that provide for the individual and group needs of the students in meeting the desired results
Specific alternative or extended strategies that will challenge the more advanced students
Specific support strategies that will support the student who will have difficulty meeting the desired results
The Differentiated Classroom: Chapters 7 and 8 and page 121
See Part III of the PowerPoint presentation by Francine Lamonica: Instructional Strategies. You may find it easier and faster to save the PowerPoint to your hard drive and open it from there.
Internet Links
Flexible Grouping
Literature Circles Resource Center
Practical Materials for Literature Circles
More
practical materials
Multiple Intelligences and Learning Styles
An Explanation of Multiple Intelligences
Die Like An Egyptian: An example of MI in action
Compacting
the Curriculum
What is compacting the curriculum?
What is Curriculum Compacting: A Teacher's Reflection
What are some good lessons to try?
Differentiated Curriculum: A Successful Experience
Tiered Learning Activities
Critical Questions about Tiered Lessons
Practical Advice on Developing Tiered Lessons
Developing a Tiered Activity Click and then scroll down the page and find a
template for how to proceed
Check links listed below about Document Based Questions (DBQ'S).
They are applicable to the approaches listed above.
One School's Approach to DBQ's
New York State Courses on DBQ's
A Rubric for Using a DBQ
Another School's Approach