Contents // List of Reproducible Pages...vi // List of Figures...vi // Foreword by Cindy A. Strickland...vii // Introduction...1 // Part i // Getting Ready // Chapter 1: What Is Differentiation?...5 // Differentiated Instruction: // One Size Doesn’t Fit All...6 // You May Be Differentiating Already...7 // Our Diverse Classrooms...7 // What Do We Differentiate?...10 // What Is the Teacher’s Role?...11 // Questions and Answers About Differentiating Instruction...13 // How Differentiated Is Your Classroom?...18 // Chapter 2: Who Are Your Students?...21 // Discovering Your Students...21 // Finding Out What Students Know...25 // The Importance of Knowing Your Students...26 // Chapter 3: What Do You Teach?...59 // Essential Questions...59 // Unit Questions...61 // Using Essential and Unit Questions to Differentiate Instruction...62 // Choosing a Unit of Your Own...62 // Mapping Your Curriculum...63 // Part 2 // Differentiation in Action // Chapter 4: How Do You Teach? // Planning for Challenge and Variety...73 // Challenge: Bloom’s Levels of Thinking...73 // Variety: Gardner’s Nine Ways of // Thinking and Learning...75 // How Differentiated Is Your Current Unit?...75 // The Matrix Plan...80 // A Sample Matrix Plan...80 // Differentiating Your Unit Using a Matrix Plan..82 // The Integration Matrix...82 // Many Uses for Your Matrix...90 // Chapter 5: What Do Students Need? // Flexible Instructional Grouping...91 // Personalizing Learning with Flexible Grouping..91 // Flexible Grouping
at Exit Points...91 // Flexible Grouping Compared with Other Grouping Strategies...92 // Questions and Answers About Flexible Grouping..94 // Tips on Managing Flexible Groups...95 // Student Independence and Flexible Groups...96 // Chapter 6: What Do Students Need? // Tiered Assignments...97 // Six Ways to Structure Tiered Assignments...97 // Deciding When and How to Tier an Assignment... 101 // Guidelines for Designing Tiered Assignments...101 // How to Organize Groups and Give Directions...102 // Making Tiering Invisible...104 // Chapter 7: What Do Students Need? // Choices... 107 // Pathways Plans... 107 // Project Menus... Ill // Challenge Centers... 113 // Spin-Offs... 115 // Chapter 8: What About Grading?...125 // Establishing Quality Criteria for Differentiated Activities... 125 // Grades Are Cumulative... 126 // Don’t Grade Everything... 126 // Grades = Rigor... 126 // Totally 10...129 // Chapter 9: How Do You Manage Differentiation?...131 // Preparing to Differentiate... 131 // Preparing Your Students and Classroom... 131 // Managing Student Work...132 // Chapter 10: How Do You Differentiate for Special Populations?...135 // Differentiated Instruction and // Special Needs Students...135 // An Idea from Your Special Education // Colleagues...138 // Other Differentiation Strategies for // Special Needs Students...138 // Differentiated Instruction for // Gifted and Talented Students...139 // Curriculum Compacting...141 // Individual Planning... 143 // The Importance of
Mentors... 145 // Final Thoughts: // Teaching as a Creative Activity...149 // Appendix A: // Letter to Families...150 // Appendix B: // Differentiating Classroom Discussions...151 // Using Classroom Questions to // Differentiate Learning...151 // Brainstorming...152 // Learning Dialogues...153 // Appendix C: // Content Catalysts, Processes, and Products (CCPP) Toolkit...159 // References and Resources...161 // Index...163 // About the Author...167