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Based on the updated second edition of Carol Ann Tomlinson's The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners, this DVD shows you practical, real-world examples from experienced K-5 school teachers of how to divide your time, resources, and efforts to effectively instruct students of various backgrounds, readiness and skill levels, and interests.
Based on the updated second edition of Carol Ann Tomlinson's The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners, this DVD shows you practical, real-world examples from experienced secondary school teachers of how to divide your time, resources, and efforts to effectively instruct students of various backgrounds, readiness and skill levels, and interests.
One-size-fits-all instruction approaches do not serve today's academically diverse student population, and simply claiming to practice differentiation is not a magic bullet. In this keynote, Dr. Tomlinson calls on teachers to implement best practices regarding curriculum, assessment, instruction, and learning environment¡Xand to grasp how these factors interrelate. She examines and invites educators to scrutinize their practices, applying the four foundational principles of effective differentiation.
Teachers everywhere are under way more pressure to address required content standards, teach for student understanding, and reach an increasingly diverse student population. Find out how you can do that by using Differentiated Instruction (DI) and Understanding by Design®(UbD) in tandem to incorporate content standards into an understanding-based curriculum that includes instruction that supports the success of all students. Leading experts Carol Ann Tomlinson and Jay McTighe come together for an informal and enlightening conversation that explains how to use DI and UbD approaches to meet the demands of a fast-changing educational landscape of 21st century learning.
Yes you can turn three of the leading approaches to school improvement into a unified system. This DVD of a landmark session at the 2008 Summer Conference features four of the top sages of school improvement connecting their ideas:
~ Carol Ann Tomlinson on Differentiated Instruction
~ Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins on Understanding by Design®
~ Robert J. Marzano on What Works in School™
Hear them discuss their three powerhouse frameworks and share the profound potentials for educators who use these models. Show this DVD at the next meeting of your school improvement team or professional learning community.
Join Carol Ann Tomlinson and classroom teachers as they bring Differentiated Instruction to life in this practical, easily implemented Professional Development Program for the elementary school level.
Tomlinson guides viewers as they observe classroom examples of the non-negotiables of differentiated instruction. The integrated professional development plan will empower educators as they lead for student success.
This DVD provides a complete professional development program. The embedded PowerPoint presentation and teacher handouts were specifically designed to support the program. Directions for downloading the embedded files can be accessed from the DVD menu.
Join Carol Ann Tomlinson and classroom teachers as they bring Differentiated Instruction to life in this practical, easily implemented Professional Development Program for the Middle School level.
Carol Ann Tomlinson guides viewers as they observe classroom examples of the non-negotiables of Differentiated Instruction. Use the integrated professional development plan, including accompanying powerpoint presentation and handouts, to empower educators as they lead for student success.
Join Carol Ann Tomlinson and classroom teachers as they bring Differentiated Instruction to life in this practical, easily implemented Professional Development Program for the High School level.
Carol Ann Tomlinson guides viewers as they observe classroom examples of the non-negotiables of Differentiated Instruction. Use the integrated professional development plan, including accompanying powerpoint presentation and handouts, to empower educators as they lead for student success.
This DVD documents teachers as they begin their differentiated instruction journey. The program visited educators from elementary and middle school classrooms to demonstrate and describe ways they plan for instruction within an Understanding by Design mindset to ensure all children are engaged in meaningful, standards-based work. Each classroom segment examines instructional strategies purposefully designed to provide proven learning experiences based on students' readiness and learning profiles. With classroom footage and interviews, a thoughtful and realistic approach to differentiated curriculum, assessment and instruction is made reasonable and feasible. DVD includes concise digital guide.
Featuring Gayle Gregory, Cindy Strickland, and other experts
How successful are your teachers in implementing differentiation practices in their classrooms? You will be excited to learn that School Improvement Network and The Video Journal of Education just released the most comprehensive tool available to help teachers understand and use differentiation with their students.
Applied Differentiation: Making It Work in the Classroom features Gayle Gregory, Cindy Strickland, Lin Kuzmich, and exemplary teachers and administrators.
These powerful programs can provide hours of group training for teachers and administrators on a school or district level as well as job-embedded professional learning. Teachers can see how successful teachers design lesson plans and deliver them in their differentiated classrooms---and specific templates and frameworks are included that will help teachers identify learning styles and differentiate lessons using the newly released Applied Differentiation Map..
Program 1: Knowing the Learner
~ Understand the What and Why of Differentiation
~ Differentiation creates motivation in all learners, especially those who have not been excited about school.
~ Educators intentionally use data to recognize student needs and interests that provide links to successful learning.
~ Identify Student Readiness
~ Connect to students with where they are. The constant pull to greater knowledge or skills will engage students not otherwise ready for the learning.
~ Crystallize Student Interest
~ As teachers tie what students like into topics, interest will increase and learning will result.
~ Create a Learning Profile for Each Student
~ Use the Learning Profile Matrix to help understand how students learn best through their learning styles, intelligence inclinations, culture, race, and gender.
Program 2: How to Differentiate
~ Educators Understand Themselves as Learners
~ Begin small by starting with familiar topics.
~ Apply learning styles, techniques, and strategies teachers know.
~ Manage Differentiation
~ Sustain a positive safe climate.
~ Establish and practice routines.
~ Provide anchor activities to engage students without direction.
~ Plan with the Applied Differentiation Map, a dynamic tool for lesson planning
~ The map will help teachers understand: WHERE to begin. WHAT is differentiated and WHAT are student needs. HOW students will learn and HOW learning is to be demonstrated.
Program 3: Leadership and Implementation
~ This program is designed to help educational leaders start the process of differentiation within their schools.
~ Create a Climate for Differentiation
~ Teachers, like students, have differing needs and styles.
~ Provide Training and Leadership
~ The principal must take responsibility to initiate improved instruction. Allow teachers to observe other teachers, to coach or be coached, and to participate in learning communities.
~ Offer Ongoing Support
~ Help teachers feel empowered, accountable and professional.
~ Examine Structures That Work
~ Training and sustaining structures need not be rigid, but must be sensible and consistent.
Featuring Gayle gregory, Cindy Strickland, and other experts
How successful are your teachers in implementing differentiation practices in their classrooms? You will be excited to learn that School Improvement Network and The Video Journal of Education just released the most comprehensive tool available to help teachers understand and use differentiation with their students.
Applied Differentiation: Making It Work in the Classroom features Gayle Gregory, Cindy Strickland, Lin Kuzmich, and exemplary teachers and administrators.
These powerful programs can provide hours of group training for teachers and administrators on a school or district level as well as job-embedded professional learning. Teachers can see how successful teachers design lesson plans and deliver them in their differentiated classrooms---and specific templates and frameworks are included that will help teachers identify learning styles and differentiate lessons using the newly released Applied Differentiation Map..
Program 1: Knowing the Learner
~ Understand the What and Why of Differentiation
~ Differentiation creates motivation in all learners, especially those who have not been excited about school.
~ Educators intentionally use data to recognize student needs and interests that provide links to successful learning.
~ Identify Student Readiness
~ Connect to students with where they are. The constant pull to greater knowledge or skills will engage students not otherwise ready for the learning.
~ Crystallize Student Interest
~ As teachers tie what students like into topics, interest will increase and learning will result.
~ Create a Learning Profile for Each Student
~ Use the Learning Profile Matrix to help understand how students learn best through their learning styles, intelligence inclinations, culture, race, and gender.
Program 2: How to Differentiate
~ Educators Understand Themselves as Learners
~ Begin small by starting with familiar topics.
~ Apply learning styles, techniques, and strategies teachers know.
~ Manage Differentiation
~ Sustain a positive safe climate.
~ Establish and practice routines.
~ Provide anchor activities to engage students without direction.
~ Plan with the Applied Differentiation Map, a dynamic tool for lesson planning
~ The map will help teachers understand: WHERE to begin. WHAT is differentiated and WHAT are student needs. HOW students will learn and HOW learning is to be demonstrated.
Program 3: Leadership and Implementation
~ This program is designed to help educational leaders start the process of differentiation within their schools.
~ Create a Climate for Differentiation
~ Teachers, like students, have differing needs and styles.
~ Provide Training and Leadership
~ The principal must take responsibility to initiate improved instruction. Allow teachers to observe other teachers, to coach or be coached, and to participate in learning communities.
~ Offer Ongoing Support
~ Help teachers feel empowered, accountable and professional.
~ Examine Structures That Work
~ Training and sustaining structures need not be rigid, but must be sensible and consistent.
Nationally renowned expert on English Language Learners (ELL), Jo Gusman, presents a powerful and compelling model to differentiate instruction in our nation's culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms. Jo outlines her FOUNDATION-FRAMEWORK-TOOLS model to help educators create effective language acquisition programs that meet the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) requirements.
The viewer will be able to:
~ Make informed decisions for program planning, curriculum development, and instruction using the FOUNDATION-FRAMEWORK-TOOLS model
~ Understand the impact that demographic shifts, policy, and compliance regulations have on educating the English Language Learner
~ Implement practical techniques to better understand and address the unique needs of English Language Learners and their families
~ Lower the Affective Filter which helps create inclusive school/classroom environments
~ Increase active participation through research-based process, strategies, and skill development techniques
~ Access and apply important information from videos, books, web sites, and other valuable resources
Two Professional Development programs
Program 1: Differentiated Instruction: Focus on Inclusion
Program 2: Differentiated Instruction: A Focus on the Gifted
Based on the core components of differentiation that govern ALL quality instruction, you will begin to learn how to more effectively:
~ Deliver appropriate curriculum content
~ Implement instructional processes
~ Inform your decision making
~ Use on-going assessments
~ Evaluate student products
The first two programs in this series highlight practices which research has demonstrated to be effective when working in classroom environments. They acknowledge the diversity that exists in every classroom and present a foundation that begs for differentiated instruction.
Each program briefly explores the changes in educational paradigms, and presents specific ways in which differentiated instruction responds to the current challenges that are presented by diverse learners in today's classrooms. Also incorporated is research¡Xpast and present¡Xsuch as:
~ The Multiple Intelligences
~ Principles of Learning
~ Cooperative Learning
~ Brain Compatible Learning
~ Curriculum scaffolding
~ Environmental Organization
Learn how you can differentiate your classroom or train others to differentiate theirs, by observing the teaching and learning process in real classrooms.
These programs will assist you in customizing your instructional practices so as to ensure that all students can be successful. You will learn how to design and implement instruction, and facilitate and assess progress in ways that can meet the needs of ALL your students.
Program 1 Differentiated Instruction: A Focus on Inclusion This program will target customized practices that are most effective in classrooms where special education students are fully included.
Program 2 Differentiated Instruction: A Focus on the Gifted This program will target customized practices that are most effective in classrooms that seek to challenge gifted/high achieving students.
DVD (With Viewer's Guide) / 2003 / (Grades K-12) /
As teachers learn about the power of differentiation and how it will increase achievement for all students, they will
~ Understand the necessary elements for planning such as Climate, Knowing the Learner, Assessment, Adjustable Assignments, Instructional Strategies, and Curriculum Approaches.
~ Observe classrooms with a primary focus on Knowing the Learner.
~ Understand the importance of continuous assessment before, during, and after instruction.
~ Explore how to adjust learning tasks for different types of students.
~ See how providing choices will motivate and assist all learners.
~ Observe how assorted curriculum approaches such as centers, projects, and contracts can widen the options available for students.
As teachers learn about the power of differentiation and how it will increase achievement for all students,they will
~ Understand the necessary elements for planning such as Climate, Knowing the Learner, Assessment,Adjustable Assignments, Instructional Strategies, and Curriculum Approaches.
~ Observe classrooms with a primary focus on Knowing the Learner.
~ Understand the importance of continuous assessment before, during, and after instruction.
~ Explore how to adjust learning tasks for different types of students.
~ See how providing choices will motivate and assist all learners.
~ Observe how assorted curriculum approaches such as centers, projects, and contracts can widen the options available for students.
This course will teach you how to gather information through ongoing assessment that will help you plan instruction more effectively. This course will give you tools, surveys, checklists, and guidelines to accurately asses your students' progress and plan for their continued success.
In this course, you will learn how to:
~ identify learning styles and preferences.
~ use authentic and performance-based assessment.
~ learn techniques for ongoing, concurrent assessment.
~ discover the value of teaching students to self-evaluate.
~ improve student comprehension and retention.
~ obtain feedback to make your differentiated instruction more effective.
Whether taken alone or with the instructional strategies course, "Differentiated Assessment Strategies" is a must-take course for anyone anxious to find new ways to enhance their instruction and improve student achievement.
This program is designed to give you the knowledge and skills to implement differentiated instruction successfully in your own classroom. You will learn strategies for meeting the needs of an increasingly diverse student population within the context of today's challenging standards-based curriculum. Real-life video demonstrations will illustrate how to adapt curriculum content, processes, and products to match students' readiness, interests, and learning profiles.
In this course, you will learn how to:
~ Recognize and teach to different kinds of intelligences.
~ Understand and accommodate various learning styles.
~ Effectively implement multi-option and tiered assignments.
~ Utilize ongoing, authentic assessment techniques.
~ Design more dynamic and engaging lessons and units.
In addition, you will learn how to further differentiate your instruction through the use of learning centers, portfolios, graphic organizers, group investigation, and varied homework assignments. With this thorough introduction to differentiated instruction, you will be prepared to meet the learning needs of all students no matter how diverse their learning styles or preferences.
With the videos in this new course, you will be transported to a Best Practices Institute on Differentiating Literacy Instruction held on the campus of the University of Virginia. As a virtual participant in this conference, you will learn from author and differentiation expert, Dr. Carol Ann Tomlinson. In her presentation, Dr. Tomlinson describes how differentiated instruction can be best used to teach reading and writing in today's diverse classrooms. She gives examples of successful differentiated literacy lesson plans, shares personal experiences, and answers questions about the best ways to apply differentiation to literacy instruction. Also featured are teacher educators demonstrating how to apply differentiation concepts using pre-assessments, visual narratives, and real world documents.
In this course, you will learn how to:
~ differentiate your instruction to reach children of varying literacy readiness levels.
~ improve your instruction by adopting a growth mindset.
~ use strategies such as flexible grouping and RAFT to enrich your literacy instruction.
~ create reading and writing lesson plans and units utilizing differentiated instruction.
This course provides an excellent companion to our other three courses, "Introduction to Differentiation", "Differentiated Instructional Strategies" and "Differentiated Assessment Strategies". These four courses provide both the theory and skills necessary to successfully implement a differentiated approach to instruction.
Nationally renowned expert on English Language Learners (ELL), Jo Gusman, presents a powerful and compelling model to differentiate instruction in our nation's culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms. Jo outlines her FOUNDATION-FRAMEWORK-TOOLS model to help educators create effective language acquisition programs that meet the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) requirements.
With the videos in this course, you will be transported to a Best Practices Institute in Differentiated Instruction held on the campus of the University of Virginia. As a virtual participant in this conference, you will learn from one of the foremost experts in differentiation, Dr. Carol Ann Tomlinson. In her presentation, Dr. Tomlinson describes the nonnegotiable elements of differentiation and gives several examples of this learner-centered approach to education. Also featured are expert teacher educators experienced in the use of differentiated strategies who demonstrate how to apply course concepts in the creation of lessons and learning activities.
In this course, you will learn how to:
~ differentiate your instruction to reach children of varying literacy readiness levels.
~ improve your instruction by establishing a supportive relationship with students.
~ differentiate your curriculum to improve student engagement and understanding.
~ create reading and writing lesson plans and units utilizing differentiated instruction.
This course provides an excellent companion to our other three courses, "Differentiation and Literacy", "Differentiated Instructional Strategies" and "Differentiated Assessment Strategies". These four courses provide both the theory and skills necessary to successfully implement a differentiated approach to instruction.