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A set of subjects, content, and what is being taught at school is what?
Curriculum
Content is differentiated when you what?
1. match learners with appropriate activities according to their readiness
2. give students choices about topics to explore in greater depth
3. provide students with resources that match their current levels of understanding
The activities you use to help students understand the content. The "how" of teaching is what?
Process
Define Content.
What we want students to do
The Common School Movement was lead by who?
Horace Mann
What Do Students Vary in Differentiation?
Readiness, interest, and learning profile.
What occurred with Curriculum in the 21st Century?
Standards were based and "No Child Left Behind Act"
When planning curriculum, what question(s) should you ask yourself?
1. What do I want my students to know, understand, and be able to do?
2. What will I do to help students learn this?
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3. How will my students show what they know?
What century was everyone receiving a common education and theoretically ensures that everyone begins the economic race on equal footing?
Curriculum in the 19th Century
What is Differentiating Products?
How students show what is learned
Name one thing that curriculum is focused on.
1. Latin and Greek for those preparing to be ministers
2. French, German, and Spanish for those preparing to be merchants
OR
3. Everyone would study English through reading, writing, and orating
How Can the Teacher Differentiate?
Content, process, and product
Products can be differentiated by?
--difficulty
-- a level of assistance
--degree of directiveness
Name 3 Differentiation activities and/or instructions.
--learner centered, activities
--teacher-selected activities
--teacher-directed activities
--small group instruction
-- learner-selected activities
--individual instruction
--whole class instruction
Phase 1-teacher assessment of student
Phase 2-teacher sets up a plan
Phase 3-teacher and students design a project
Compacting (Part of Differentiating Content)
What type of sequence is used in a differentiated classroom?
Instructional Sequence
Consistently using a variety of instructional approaches to modify content, process, and/or products in response to learning readiness and interest of academically diverse students.
Differentiation
Know (facts and information), understand (principles, generalizations, ideas), and be able to do (skills) is part of what in differentiating?
Content
What are Some Goals of Differentiating?
--increased academic learning
--increased confidence in learning
--increased intrinsic motivation for learning
--self-directed learning behaviors
Name 3 Curriculum Designs.
--Content-Based/Direct Instruction
--Inquiry Approach
--Conceptual Learning
--Cooperative Learning
--Problem Solving
--Critical and Creative Thinking
Why Use Differentiate?
To get all students to be involved, plus students in special programming, to spend most of the time in a regular classroom.
Name 3 Types of Differentiating Content.
--textbooks, journals, books, reading, material
--videos
--computer programs
--learning contracts
--interest centers
--support systems (tutors, study partners, reading buddies, mentors)
--compacting
Progressive Education, Soviet Union's Sputnik and the National Response, Curriculum Reformed, and the Nation at Risk occured in what century?
Curriculum in the 20th Century
What is the Differentiating Process?
--tiered assignments
--learning centers
--interactive journals and learning logs
--graphic organizeres
What is the instructional sequence in a differentiated classroom?
1. Lesson introduction
2. Initial teaching
3. Locating or designing a pretest format based on observed or anticipated differences
4. Pretesting
5. Analysis of pretest results
6. Decision making and planning
7. Formation of flexible groups
8. Differentiated teaching and learning activities