Content
Two ways to think about differentiating content
What are:
adapting what we teach and how we give students access to what we teach
Another name for process.
What is a "sense-making activity?"
According to Tomlinson, these require students to demonstrate their proficiency, usually at the mid-term, end of chapters or units, and are usually completed in class within a specified time frame.
What are performance tasks?
The ongoing process of taking regular and varied snapshots of students' learning.
What is formative assessment?
A process for designing tasks differentiated based on pre-or formative assessment data.
What is tiering.
There are three elements that can be adapted when differentiating content
What are:
readiness level
interest
learning profile
Something students will make or do in a range of modes, at varied degrees of sophistication, and in varying time spans, with varied amounts of teacher support, using essential skills in order to understand, extend, or apply an essential idea or answer an essential question.
What is a good differentiated activity.
According to Tomlinson, these are completed at the end of significant spans of learning, ask for transfer, are summative in nature and are graded , but usually require students to work at broader and deeper levels over longer stretches of time in and out of school.
What are products?
Lets you know what your students already know about a subject.
What is a pre-assessment?
Teacher initiated framework that has students select tasks to complete to fulfill agreed upon expectations.
What are contracts?
When differentiating content for readiness one must consider two things.
What are:
the student's current proficiency in reading
and level of understanding?Something all sense making activities must have in common.
What is respectful?
The first step in creating a high quality product.
What is identifying the key knowledge, understandings and skills the product will assess.
Formative assessment ideas for the end of a lesson.
What are exit slips and the Frayer Model?
Uses dice and cards with prompts/questions.
What is "Think Dots?"
A tool for planning differentiated assignments based on learner readiness.
What is "The Equalizer."
Strategies that allow for more flexible and responsive sense-making.
What are:
learning logs, journals, graphic organizers, learning centers, Literature Circles, choice boards, Think-Pair-Share?
These students would benefit from using product formats that allow them to express themselves in ways other than written language alone.
What are struggling learners?
An evaluation applied at the end of a period of instruction to measure the outcome of student learning.
What is summative assessment?
A cooperative learning strategy in which each member of a small group becomes an expert on a different aspect of the content and shares that expertise with other group members.
What is "Jigsaw?"
She is the "guru" of differentiating instruction.
Who is Carol Ann Tomlinson.
Cubing might be used as one strategy to differentiate process and is based on which of the basic elements of D.I.
What is the element of interest-based?
This group of students would benefit from working with mentors or outside experts on their product assignments.
What are advanced learners?
Assessments that require students to demonstrate a depth of knowledge and demonstarte that they can apply that knowledge.
What are transfer tasks?
Encourages students to assume a role and consider their audience while working in a particular format to examine a topic.
What is "RAFT?"