Differentiated Instruction
The teacher knows that different learners have different needs, so the teacher plans instruction and learning opportunities with those needs in mind.
What is differentiated instruction?
Temporary supports in place to help students learn new skills and concepts.
What are scaffolds?
Lessons and activities that present different race, gender, sexuality, ability, or class.
What is evidence of a shared and inclusive curriculum?
Accessible data that teachers can use to group students using reading levels and lexile scores.
What is Mapgrowth?
When student's skills and ability to understand a topic are matched to tasks.
What is student readiness?
Being familiar with the individual academic, emotional, and social needs of all students.
What is the root of differentiated instruction?
Students receive summaries or graphic novels to simultaneously accompany a class text.
What is a modification?
Teachers and students are able to recognize, understand, respect and respond to diverse cultural backgrounds, within and outside of the classroom.
What is being culturally responsive?
Using a variety of grouping strategies in order to match students and tasks when necessary.
What is flexible grouping?
Two distinct types of routine assessments.
What are formative and summative assessments?
The three curricular elements that are signs of differentiated instruction.
What is Content-Process-Product?
Breaking down a complex problem, or text, into smaller, more manageable parts to help one's understanding.
What is chunking?
Students recognize their own "stories" within the tapestry of the classroom and are eager to share and learn.
What is connecting with the material and being engaged with the task?
In co-teaching models, when both teachers are teaching similar content to different groups.
What is parallel teaching?
Timely, specific, constructive, individualized, and personal.
What are signs of actionable feedback?