What?
Why?
How?
Say What?
The Future...
100
Attending to the learning needs of a particular student
What is differentiated instruction?
100
Research suggests that teacher differentiation does this
What is enhance student achievement and attitude about learning
100
At a staff meeting, one group of teachers watches a video, one group of teachers engages in collaborative inquiry, one group of teachers reads an article
What are ways to differentiate PD for teachers?
100
Parents may not have heard of differentiation and will be confused to what it is, and how it impacts their child
Why is communication with parents about DI necessary?
100
Explicitly adding Differentiated Instruction to the School Improvement Plan would fall under this category of the Ontario Leadership Framework.
What is Setting Direction?
200
Elements of the curriculum that can be differentiated
What are content, process and product?
200
Four learning styles proposed by Dunn
What are environmental, emotional, sociological and physical learning styles?
200
A summary of the students’ interests, learning styles, multiple intelligences, academic achievement and other background information
What is a Student Learning Profile (or other similar answer)?
200
The type of wording used to explain Differentiated Instruction to parents and community so that they understand and are not confused.
What is clear, jargon-free language?
200
“Explain what Differentiated Instruction would look like in your classroom”, “Explain how you would meet the needs of a variety of learners in your class” and “How would you engage students with a wide variety of interests”
What are questions you could ask when hiring new staff in order to foster Differentiation?
300
Principles that govern effective differentiation?
What are respectful tasks, flexible groupings, ongoing assessment and adjustment
300
A state of total absorption/interest that comes from being lost in an activity that is so satisfying that you lose track of time
What is a state of flow?
300
Releasing teachers to visit classrooms that use differentiation, supporting conference attendance, and enlisting technology specialists to assist with differentiation
What are three ways the principal can support teachers in Differentiation?
300
4 different methods the principal can communicate to parents about Differentiation
What are newsletters, websites, information nights, conferences (or any other acceptable method of communication)?
300
Hiring school personnel who either have or are open to differentiation as a teaching philosophy, providing teachers with a curriculum that supports differentiation, providing educators with support and accountability for their growth in differentiation and encouraging changes in classroom instructions by examining outcomes.
What are four key areas to continuing systemic growth toward differentiation?
400
Groups that are made based on readiness, interest and learning profile
What are flexible grouping options?
400
When a child cannot successfully function alone but can succeed with adult scaffolding
What is the zone of proximal development?
400
The practice of one teacher following the same group of students for several years in order to foster better relationships with students (really knowing the students) and to avoid the lost time of “getting to know students” at the start of the year.
What is Looping?
400
4 different ways that the school leader can receive feedback from parents regarding differentiation.
What are emails, focus groups, school council meetings, and surveys (or any other acceptable method)?
400
Is there evidence of a common vocabulary? Is student achievement improving? Is there evidence of higher self-efficacy? To what degree does meaningful collaboration exist between teachers? Are teachers using a broader range of instructional strategies?
What are important questions leaders may ask when assessing processes put into place?
500
To maximize student growth and success
What is the goal of differentiated instruction?
500
A wide range of cognitive abilities
What are multiple intelligences?
500
n order for change to be sustainable these must be in place.
What are structural and cultural change?
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