1. Philip Banseylla

2. Jimmy Campbell

3. Ruth Cooper

4. Steve Dobson

5. Anna Finn

6. Margery Gretton

7. Claire Hills

8. Hannah Johnston

9. Danny Kuperberg

10.Maeveen Maenpaa

11.Nigel Martin

12.Wendy Oswin

13.Jal Patel

14.Christine Phillips

15.Lucy Ridgway

16.Niki Savva

17.Mary Sell

18.Cressida Tweed

19.Pete Weitz

20.Chris Wickham

DifferentiationHelen & Vasy

Vasy

DifferentiationToday we will think about differentiation..

9.00 – 9.20: Some examples of differentiation activities shared by the AST‟s

9.20 – 11.20: Time in departments

11.20 – 12.00: Feedback in this room• We will ask you in departments to come up with :

(1) an example of how you could use one of the ideas (2) more differentiation ideas of your own to share

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What is Differentiation?

• Simply stated, differentiation is modified instruction

• that helps students with diverse academic needs

• and learning styles master the same challenging academic content.

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What is

Differentiation?

How Can We Differentiate?03/06/2013Helen

Vary Materials

Vary Process

Vary Assessment

Vary Materials

• Changing the materials used in the classroom can be an effective way to differentiate

• For example.........

• Snowball activity

• Change the materials each student is given

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Snowball ActivityPLANNING THE ACTIVITY

• Create 3 differentiated „sources‟ of information

• Eg: with diagrams, simple text, complex text

• Each source has different information (so they must work as a group to get an overview of the topic)

• Using different levels of thinking...

Snowball ActivitySTUDENT ACTIVITY

• Working in groups of 3

• As Individuals: Students read their source material and highlight relevant points

• As a Group: They feedback information to each other to create an overview

• Group constructs a concept map

• As a class: compare and feedback on each others concept maps

Concept Maps…

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QUESTIONS YOU ALL MUST ANSWER:1. List the 3 components of a nucleotide2. Describe how these 3 components of a nucleotide

are added together (ie what type of reaction is used)

3. Draw the structre of a nucleotide4. Write out the name for all 4 DNA bases (ie not

just the 4 letters!)5. Explain which of the 4 DNA bases pair togetherExtension knowledge:1. Explain how each of these DNA base pairs are

held together in a DNA molecule

Instructions:

Vary Process

• Changing the instructions of activities will allow all students to learn the same concepts and skills

• But with varied levels of “support, challenge,or complexity”

• For example.........

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In Chemistry• We can set a problem:• In aqueous ammonia, cobalt(II) ions are oxidised to cobalt(III)

ions by hydrogen peroxide. The H2O2 is reduced to hydroxide ions. Calculate the minimum volume of 5.00 mol dm–3 H2O2

solution required to oxidise the Co2+ ions in 9.87 g of CoSO4.7H2O

• And leave it totally unstructured

Or make it partially structuredQ1. In aqueous ammonia, cobalt(II) ions are oxidised to cobalt(III) ions by hydrogen peroxide. Write and equation to show this

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Q2. The H2O2 is reduced to hydroxide ions. Calculate the minimum volume of 5.00 mol dm–3 H2O2 solution required to oxidise the Co2+ ions in 9.87 g of CoSO4.7H2O

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Or make it totally structuredQ1.In aqueous ammonia, cobalt(II) ions are oxidised to cobalt(III) ions by hydrogen

peroxide. Write an equation to illustrate this.

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Q2. The H2O2 is reduced to hydroxide ions. Calculate the minimum volume of 5.00 mol dm–3

H2O2 solution required to oxidise the Co2+ ions in 9.87 g of CoSO4.7H2O using the following steps to help you.

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Calculate the number of mole of CoSO4.7H2O in 9.87g

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........................................................................................... Using the ratio in your equation calculate the of mole of H2O2 solution required to oxidise the Co2+

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........................................................................................... Using the formula Mole=Concentration x Volume calculate the volume of H2O2 solution required

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Extension• When students have finished they have the option of

changing the level of structure in the question they attempt

• By either:

(1) attempting a similar level of question

(2) attempting a more difficult question

Vary Assessment• Vary methods of assessment, giving

students options when it comes to demonstrating their understanding of the topic

• This allows for another form of differentiation for example...............

Vary Assessment• Display Blooms Taxonomy on IWB

• Challenge students to identify the different ways of constructing questions, to reflect the different levels of thinking

• Ask them to write an exam question that covers each of the levels of thinking & markscheme

• Asking the class to try these questions& feeding back

Different Order Questions

KnowledgeList, define, tell, recall, identify, label, collect, tabulate, quote, name,

who, when, whereComprehension

Summarize, describe, interpret, contrast, associate, distinguish, estimate, differentiate, discuss, extend

ApplicationApply, demonstrate, calculate, complete, illustrate, predict, show, solve,

examine, modify, relate, change, classify, experiment, discover, useAnalysis

Analyze, separate, order, explain, connect, classify, arrange, divide, compare, select, explain, infer, break down, differentiate

SynthesisCombine, integrate, modify, rearrange, substitute, plan, create, design,

invent, what if?, compose, formulate, prepare, generalize, rewriteEvaluation

Assess, evaluate, appraise, justify, defend, decide, rank, grade, test, measure, recommend, convince, select, judge, discriminate, support,

conclude, compare, summarize

The Stuck MenuStudents choose 3 strategies from „The Stuck Menu‟ before putting up their hand to ask for help...

1. Leave a question that you find difficult until later, try an easier question first

2. Look back through your notes and previous examples

3. Use a text book/smart-phone4. Ask someone else in your group5. Use a dictionary to look up a word

Helen

The Lazy Teacher’s HandbookUnlocking potential with language (Jim Smith’s The Lazy

Teacher’s Handbook: developing an independent learning

structure)

‘What have you forgotten to do?’

‘If you were not stuck, what would you do?’

‘Try something different...’

‘If I gave you a million pounds to be unstuck, what would

you do?’

‘What could you do to help yourself?’

Helen

Focus

9.20 – 11.20: Time in departments

1. Think of a way in which your department

could use at least one of the techniques we

have just shown you

2. Also discuss other differentiation activities so

that you have a new idea to feed back to use

at 11.20

3. Share your new questioning idea on the blog

11.20 – 12.00: Feedback in this room

Vasy

Time to

feedback

Where can I get the information from today?

• Shared area – Folder called „AST‟.

• This folder has all the slides used for today, including the other groups slides.

Helen

Differentiation• Show students blooms question

• Construct a past paper question

• Using different levels of thinking

• Write a markscheme

• Swap and try each others questions

• Swap and mark

• Feedback to class, show example questions and answers