Differentiated Instructional Strategies Professional Learning Guide

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Differentiated Instructional Strategies Professional Learning Guide

Support differentiated instruction in every classroom with this updated expert guide! Keeping up with differentiated instruction (DI) developments can be hard, but you’ll stay on track with this updated guide. The official companion book to the bestselling Differentiated Instructional Strategies: One Size Doesn’t Fit All, this workshop-friendly resource offers step-by-step training activities for job-embedded professional development, plus guidelines tailored for both small study groups and larger staff development meetings. This new edition of Differentiated Instructional Strategies in Practice: Training, Implementation, and Supervision has been revised to include new strategies and a Common Core lesson-planning template. This professional learning guide remains the ideal accompaniment. Inside you’ll find • Guidelines for providing individualized support and mentoring • Suggestions for evaluation, coaching, observation, and supervision of DI practices • Research-based responses to staff members’ concerns about change • Implementation and evaluation tools to measure schoolwide progress • Resources for staff developers and principals implementing large-scale differentiation initiatives No differentiated classroom is complete without Differentiated Instructional Strategies: One Size Doesn’t Fit All—and no administrative office is complete without its dedicated book study guide. Put the two together and make a successful transition to brain-friendly differentiated classrooms throughout your school. Praise for the previous edition: "An excellent resource for understanding the key concepts and strategies of differentiated instruction. Participants in training based on this curriculum will experience the instructional strategies firsthand, facilitating their application in the classroom." —Maria Timmons Flores, Assistant Professor Lewis & Clark College "The book′s major strengths are its fluency, readability, and connection of theory and practice. The activities are doable and will make sense to a classroom teacher." —Belinda G. Gimbert, Coordinator, Transition to Teaching Program Newport News Public Schools, VA
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Eliminate “idea block” with this practical resource that includes more than 100 planning tools, matrixes, rubrics, templates, and choice boards for differentiating instruction during extended learning blocks.
Differentiated Instructional Strategies

Praise for the First Edition: ′Highly recommended reading for classroom educators and a seminal contribution to Teacher Education supplemental reading lists and academic reference collections′ - Midwest Book Review ′A teacher-friendly guide to differentiating instruction based on sound theory and best practice′ - Joanne Quinn, OISE University of Toronto ′[The book] is highly recommended reading for classroom educators and a seminal contribution to Teacher Education supplemental reading lists and academic reference collections′ - Wisconsin Bookwatch ′Differentiated Instructional Strategies: One Size Doesn′t Fit All provides information about strategies that will enable teachers to plan strategically so they can meet the needs of the wide variety of students in today′s highly diverse classroom. Presented in an easy-to-use format, practical techniques and processes are shared that can be used to plan and adjust learning based on pre-assessment of individual students′ knowledge, skills, experience, preferences, and needs′ - Gifted Child Today ′My principals use Differentiated Instructional Strategies to design appropriate strategies for evaluating whether the needs of all learners have been met′ - Linda S. Tafel, Professor, National-Louis University, Evanston Campus Differentiated instruction enables teachers to plan strategically so they can meet the needs of each and every student in today′s highly diverse classroom. Now the book offering best practices and techniques for differentiated instruction has been updated and expanded by two of the field′s most respected proponents. Differentiated Instructional Strategies, Second Edition, features more of the practical techniques and processes that teachers can use to adjust learning based on individual students′ knowledge, skills, experience, preferences, and needs. This teacher-friendly guide is sure to be an important resource for any teacher, new or experienced, who wants to help every student in the classroom learn and succeed.