Helpful Resources to Get You Started!
Links:
Differentiation Central
www.differentiationcentral.com
Education World: Virtual Workshops on Differentiation
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/virtualwkshp/virtualwkshp006.shtml
ASCD: Learn Teach Lead
http://www.ascd.org/research-a-topic/differentiated-instruction-resources.aspx
Differentiated Instruction and Implications for UDL Implementation
http://aim.cast.org/learn/historyarchive/backgroundpapers/differentiated_instruction_udl
Reading Materials:
Back to School: Differentiation for All Students by Ben Johnson
Differentiation in Action by Judith Dodge (2005).
How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed-Ability Classrooms by Carol Ann Tomlinson (2005).
Videos:
Tech-Fueled Differentiated Instruction Engages Elementary School Students
In this video, a school in South Carolina, is constantly assessing students and carefully choosing specific learning activities and specific technology tools, which will help to fill in the gaps in students’ knowledge or to extend student knowledge. The video provide a variety of ways technology can be used to differentiate instruction, such as creating stations, in which some students are using computers to contribute to a class blog, other students are taking a reading quiz online and other students are using a interactive white board to review prefixes.
http://www.edutopia.org/stw-differentiated-instruction-technology-elementary-video
Differentiation and the Brain: A Discussion with Carol Ann Tomlinson
This video is an interview with Carol Ann Tomlinson in which she discusses how differentiated instruction can be applied practically and she provides advise for teachers who are thinking about implementing differentiation instruction into their classrooms.
Differentiation Central
www.differentiationcentral.com
Education World: Virtual Workshops on Differentiation
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/virtualwkshp/virtualwkshp006.shtml
ASCD: Learn Teach Lead
http://www.ascd.org/research-a-topic/differentiated-instruction-resources.aspx
Differentiated Instruction and Implications for UDL Implementation
http://aim.cast.org/learn/historyarchive/backgroundpapers/differentiated_instruction_udl
Reading Materials:
Back to School: Differentiation for All Students by Ben Johnson
- Here is the link to this article about differentiation and technology integration: http://www.edutopia.org/blog/BTS-differentiation-for-all-students-ben-johnson
Differentiation in Action by Judith Dodge (2005).
How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed-Ability Classrooms by Carol Ann Tomlinson (2005).
Videos:
Tech-Fueled Differentiated Instruction Engages Elementary School Students
In this video, a school in South Carolina, is constantly assessing students and carefully choosing specific learning activities and specific technology tools, which will help to fill in the gaps in students’ knowledge or to extend student knowledge. The video provide a variety of ways technology can be used to differentiate instruction, such as creating stations, in which some students are using computers to contribute to a class blog, other students are taking a reading quiz online and other students are using a interactive white board to review prefixes.
http://www.edutopia.org/stw-differentiated-instruction-technology-elementary-video
Differentiation and the Brain: A Discussion with Carol Ann Tomlinson
This video is an interview with Carol Ann Tomlinson in which she discusses how differentiated instruction can be applied practically and she provides advise for teachers who are thinking about implementing differentiation instruction into their classrooms.
References:
Edutopia. (2010). Tech-fueled differentiated instruction engages elementary school students. Retrieved from http://www.edutopia.org/stw-differentiated-instruction-technology-elementary-video
Hawker Brownlow Education. (2013). Differentiation and the brain: A discussion with carol ann tomlinson [Video file]. Retrived from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLzCqoPFxRw
Institutes on Academic Diversity. Differentiation central resources. Retrieved from http://differentiationcentral.com/resources.html
Johnson, Ben. (2013). Back to school: Differentiation for all students. Retrieved from http://www.edutopia.org/blog/BTS-differentiation-for-all-students-ben-johnson