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Reach Every Student Through DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION
Grades 7/8 Training
Getting to the core of teaching and learning
Education CentreJanuary 21, 22, 2008
Welcome and Meet the Team
• Suzanne Cholasta – Curriculum Services
• Tina Elliott – Queen Elizabeth, Trenton• Pearl Hucul – Curriculum Services• Richard Long – Curriculum Services• Cathy Portt- Special Education
Services• Carla Ross – Prince Charles, Trenton• Mandy Savery-Whiteway – Student
Success• Christine Zaporzan – Susanna Moodie
Three important characteristics of a learning community that assist teachers
and students in developing resiliency include:
• caring relationships,• opportunities for participation and
contribution, and• opportunities to use strengths and interests as
starting points for learning.
Bernard B. (2004) Resiliency: What We Have Learned
Context
• Provincial focus on Student Success• Grade 7 & 8• Spring 2007 – Regional Project Teams• Fall 2007 – Ministry training for HPEDSB
team• Winter 2008 – HPEDSB Phase 1 and 2
implementation• Spring/ Fall 2008 – Grades 9 & 10
Why Differentiated Instruction?
• Grade 7 & 8 – a time of complex student growth
• Teachers supporting students through developmental changes
• Student interests, preferred ways of learning and specific learning needs
• Reach every student• Success for all students
Getting Started… Jan.21/22
• improving student learning by recognizing and addressing the diverse learning needs of the students
• understanding Differentiated Instruction• seeing the value of Differentiated
Instruction• recognizing that Differentiated Instruction
does not mean doing everything differently• taking new instructional actions, small or
large, beyond current level of implementation
Agenda Review
• Differentiated Instruction – What?• Kits• Knowing your students – Who?• Planning for Learning and Making
Instructional Decisions – How?• Exit Cards• Phase 2 opportunities
What have you brought in your backpack?
• Who is a Grade 7 teacher? Grade 8 teacher? French teacher? ISRT? Administrator? Other?
• Who has attended an in-service / workshop on DI?
• Who has read a book related to DI?• Who has watched a webcast on DI?• Who has students with different abilities in
their classroom?• Who knows students that are at risk?
Differentiated Instruction
How can differentiated instruction support success for all students?
Essential Question
Enduring Understandings
Differentiation is a prerequisite to effective curriculum planning, instruction and assessment.
Differentiation is teaching with student differences in mind.
In a differentiated classroom we choose to do what is fair, not what is equal.
Pages 2 to 7 in DI Teacher’s Guide
Creating an Effective Learning Environment
A Sense of Community
positive, respectful, collaborative classroom environment
organization, routines and visible learning supports
students feel safe to take risksstudents learning styles are accepted
and respected
Page 18-20 in DI Teacher’s Guide
Learning About the Learner
Teachers can differentiate according to student’s: Readiness Interest Learning Profile / Preferences
Know your Students
Pages 8 -14 in DI Teacher’s Guide
Students learn better if tasks are a close match for their skills and understanding of a topic (readiness), if tasks ignite curiosity or
passion in a student (interest), and if the assignment encourages students to work in a preferred manner (learning profile).
Plan for LearningKnow the Curriculum
Pages 15 – 17 Teacher’s Guide
•Framework for designing instruction, assessment and evaluation:
What do I want students to learn? How will I know they have learned it? How will I design instruction and assessment to help them learn (Wiggins and McTighe – Understanding by Design)
What helps us differentiate instruction, assessment and evaluations is the knowledge we develop about our students’ learning
preferences, interests, and readiness to learn new concepts.
Communication
The Child
Teacher
How will I determine the level of my student's learning and
report on it?
On-going Assessment, Evaluation and
Reporting
How will I know how well I did?
How will I know how well I did?
Teacher
How will I determine the level of my student's learning and
report on it?
On-going Assessment, Evaluation and
Reporting
How will I know how well I did?
How will I know how well I did?
Teacher
What are my students expected to learn and
be able to do?
What will I be learning?
What will I be learning?
Unpack the Curriculum
Teacher
What are my students expected to learn and
be able to do?
What will I be learning?
What will I be learning?
Unpack the CurriculumUnpack the Curriculum
Teacher
How will I know my students are learning?
How will I know what I am learning?
Gather the Evidence
Teacher
How will I know my students are learning?
How will I know what I am learning?
Gather the Evidence
Teacher
How will I help my students learn and
respond if they are not learning?
Teaching for Learning
How will I learn and what help will I need?
Teacher
How will I help my students learn and
respond if they are not learning?
Teaching for LearningTeaching for Learning
How will I learn and what help will I need?
Ongoing Assessment
Teachers use ongoing assessment to gather
information to inform decisions about their students, their
instructional approaches and the assessment forms they use
before, during and after learning.“The teacher does not try to differentiate everything for everyone
everyday…Instead, the teacher selects moments in the instructional sequence to differentiate, based on formal and informal assessment.”
Tomlinson, The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners
Differentiating Content
awareness and use of essential skills to make sense of, think about, communicate and apply key concepts and principles
multiple materials are providedmultiple perspectives on ideas & events
sought“In differentiated classrooms, teachers begin [teaching]
where students are, not at the front of a curriculum guide.” Tomlinson, The Differentiated Classroom, 2000
The “WHAT” of teaching.
Differentiating Process and Product
• based on student readiness, interest and learning preferences
• varied approaches, resources and instructional arrangements
• proactive and thoughtful planning• flexibility in choice and time• alternate ways for students to
demonstrate knowledge and skills
The “HOW” of teaching and learning.
Reciprocity
Student Learning
Differentiating for Process and Product means…the ‘how’
PROCESS How of Teaching
PRODUCTHow of Learning
Adjusting instructional
approaches to match the needs of the learner using
high yield strategies
Offering a variety of ways to
represent knowledge and skills
Pages 21-30 DI Teacher’s Guide
Help students demonstrate and learn from their learning
Self Assessment and Evaluation
Pages 31 -33 in DI Teacher’s Guide
Assessment AS Learning
OF
FOR
Self, diagnostic and formative assessment are essential to helping us differentiate instruction to meet the learning
needs of all students in our classroom.
Celebrate Individual and Group Successes
Content - and Learner-Centered Planning, Teaching, and Assessing
“If I am uncertain of the precise outcomes of a unit… I am also unable to pre-assess students’ proximity to those outcomes effectively – and thus I am not certain how to craft the start of the journey for
students whose proficiencies vary.”Tomlinson and McTighe, Integrating Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design
Bringing it all Together!
Who am I teaching? What am I teaching? How am I teaching?
Are my students learning?
Learning Environment
Assessment
Shared Reading
Differentiated Instruction
As you work towards implementation of differentiation
remember to set realistic and attainable
goals...
Pages 34 -37 in DI Teacher’s Guide
Knowing Your Students
What came first, the chicken or the egg?
Here is an easier question…What comes first in Differentiated Instruction?
Knowing Your Students - The Pillars
Readiness
•Prior knowledge•Social/Emotional
Interest
•Curiosity or passion
Learning Preferences
•How do they learn best?
Your Task – “Connect the Cards”Connect the “Know Your Students” activity to the “Readiness, Interests and Preferences” organizer using the Green Cards. Sort the information on your “Know Your Students” into:1.Learning Preferences – Learning Styles2.Interests3.Readiness
When you are done, read pages 10 and 11 of the Differentiated Instruction Teacher’s Guide.
“Connect the Cards”
Interests Readiness Learning Preferences
Readiness Interests Preferences
Connect the Cards Consolidation
ThinkPair Share
MINDS ON
Strategy Focus: • Metaphor
Purpose of the Strategy:• Establish a positive learning environment• Connect to prior learning and/or
experiences
Go to the picture/corner that
most represents your best lesson
ACTION
Strategy Focus: • Jigsaw
Purpose of the Strategy:• Introduce new learning• Provide opportunities for practice and
application of learning
Expert Groups
1. Core Questions, pp. 15-172. Learning Environment, pp. 18-193. Key Features of Diff. Instruction, pp. 22-24 4. Structures, pp. 26-27 and the Yellow
Structures companion cards5. Strategies, pp. 28-30, and Red Strategy
companion cards6. Assessment and Evaluation, pp. 31-33
Experts return to Home Groups so that experts can present their summary in the Home Groups, while others record the information in the appropriate section of the Jigsaw summary chart.
CONSOLIDATION & CONNECTIONS
Strategy Focus: Exit Cards
Purpose of the Strategy:Provide opportunities for
consolidation and reflection
Exit Cards
Reflect on the four guiding questions at your table:
1.What I learned/had confirmed about differentiated instruction .….
2.I wonder ……3.What I plan to try in my classroom/school
related to differentiated instruction ……4.What I want/need to make this plan happen
……
Phase 2
• Opportunities to be part of Professional Learning Community on Differentiated Instruction
• Teachers will select their own focus area for further implementation
• Four meeting sessions from February to May
• Small teams – Minimum of two teachers from individual schools including ISRT’s
• Please join us ……
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