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DI Glossary
Non-Negotiables
Supportive Learning Environment
Continuous Assessment
Respectful Tasks
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A teacher's response to student needs
What is differentiation or differentiated instruction?
100
the way a classroom feels and functions
Supportive Learning Environment
100
students have multiple opportunities to make decisions
What is choice?
100
Has more to do with helping students grow than cataloguing their mistakes
What is assessment?
100
a quote by Michaelangelo
What is "The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that our aim is too low and we reach it"?
200
The resources and information we teach
What is content?
200
Grouping or re-grouping students according to specific goals and needs
What is flexible grouping?
200
The way furniture and materials are organized so that multiple ways of learning can occur
What is physical environment?
200
A tool used to define criteria in a product
What is a rubric?
200
A menu of options that vary by process and interest
What are student choice boards?
300
How students make sense of content
What is process?
300
On-going collection of formal, informal, formative, and summative data
What is Continuous Assessment?
300
Areas set up in the classroom with learning activities that support outcomes and involve choice, multiple modalities and readiness levels
What are Anchor Activities?
300
Assessment given before instruction and used to refine planning
What is pre-assessment?
300
Writing assignments that provide for student choice, interests, and preferences
What are R.A.F.T.s?
400
the way students show evidence of learning
What is product?
400
Every student's work is equally engaging, appealing, and challenging
What are Respectful Tasks?
400
Collecting and processing data on student interests, learning profiles, and readiness levels
What is knowing the learner?
400
assessment used in the midst of learning to inform instruction
What is formative assessment?
400
Parallel tasks at multiple levels of depth and complexity with varied degrees of scaffolding and support
What are tiered assignments?
500
What a student brings to the learning process
What is readiness?
500
Focus on what is important for students to be able to know, understand, and do
What is Quality Curriculum?
500
Responses, displays, and events that affirm learning
What are celebrations?
500
an acronym used to help create a performance tasks
What is GRASPS?
500
Moving students towards independence by gradually lessening the supports
What is scaffolding?