Meeting the Needs of all Learners

Instructional Strategies

• Teachers who use a variety of instructional strategies add novelty, choice, and individuality to learning.
• As teachers build their repertoire of instructional strategies, they will see how they can adjust the learning for a group of learners and how different strategies appeal to different learners.

Curriculum Approaches

• Curriculum can be delivered in many ways so that it will appeal to individual learners
• Centers or stations
• Projects
• Problem-based learning
• Inquiry
• Contracts

Adaptations in …

• Content
• Process
• Product

Content

• Multiple texts
• Varied time
• Contracts
• Compacting
• Group investigation

Process

• Learning centers
• Multiple intelligences
• Graphic organizers
• Simulations
• Learning logs

Product

• Independent study
• Community–based projects
• Multiple intelligence-based orientations
• Presentations
• Arts
• Multimedia

A New Direction

• “Teachers guide students down many paths to a common destination”
• Mary Anne Hess

“If children can’t learn the way we teach, we should teach them the way they learn.”

“Differentiated instruction means shaking up what goes on in the classroom so that students have multiple options for taking in information, making sense of ideas, and expressing what they learn.”

• “Differentiated instruction means shaking up what goes on in the classroom so that students have multiple options for taking in information, making sense of ideas, and expressing what they learn.”
• Carol Ann Tomlinson

• Differentiated Classroom: What is it?

• “Differentiated instruction is not a strategy to be used from time to time, not a bag of tricks approach.
• It’s a way of thinking about teaching and learning.”
• ~ Carol Ann Tomlinson~