Differentiation

=How can differentiated instructional practices enhance teaching and learning in the elementary and middle classroom?= = =

. = = =**Differentiation is: **= 1. Having a vision of success for students. 2.Providing a variety of assignments within units of instruction, realizing students all learn differently. 3.Recognizing the variance in learning styles. 4.Allowing students to choose, with teacher direction, their routes to learning. 5.Allowing students to show proficiency in an area they already know and allowing them to move forward. 6. Offering tiered lessons,of varying degrees of difficulty, dealing with similar content 7.Qualitative. =**Differentiation is not: **= 1.Individualization...it is not a different lesson for each student each day. 2.Giving all students the same work or identical assessments all of the time. 3.Assuming that all students learn by listening. 4. Merely having centers in the classroom. 5.Assigning more work to students who have demonstrated mastery in an area. 6.Only for students who demonstrate a need for acceleration. 7. Quantitative. [|What is Differentiation?]

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CAST:Universal Design and Differentiation

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