The goal—that is, the content to be learned–is still the same for all students, but the path to learning can become much more varied and responsive to the different learning styles and levels of the students in the classroom.
Once the basic concepts are understood, though, there are many simple and effective techniques for implementing differentiated instruction in the classroom. Introducing pictures and images, movement-based exercises, cooperative projects, and color-coded instruction aids are four teaching strategies that target the special needs of diverse learning styles, while still benefiting all the students in that [...]
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Power writing is a technique that helps students transfer information from short term to long term [...]
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The Body of an essay…I use the human body as an analogy to explain the parts of an essay. This blog entry shows you [...]
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Who hasn’t had a song stuck in their head, at one time or another? Using the naturally catchy nature of tunes to have your students leaving your classes humming the answers to next weeks test seems to sell [...]
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“Differentiated Instruction Strategy Blast” presented at seminar at Gilmanton School. Teachers were motivated and positive staff and shared some outstanding ideas for vocabulary [...]
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Behavior Management Cue Card Approach!
Here’s a way to quietly cue students to choose positive behavior. Use a cue [...]
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I spent today at the National Speaker’s Association of New England program in Natick, MA. Steve Mertz, SEO Speaker, presented my kind of seminar: It was loaded with strategies to get my teacher resource website noticed! I’ve been trying to find ways to get my website noticed by teachers looking for co-teaching, inclusion, differentiated instruction, [...]
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I recently presented a workshop in Schnecksville, PA. The participants’ challenge was to create a song to help students memorize test taking strategies. They all did such a wonderful job with their rhymes, songs and mnemonics that I wanted to share them with all of you. The memorization & test [...]
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Response to Intervention is becoming the buzz-word in administrative circles and quickly filtering down to classrooms.
R.T.I is the practice of providing high-quality instruction and intervention matched to student need, monitoring progress frequently to make decisions about change in instruction or goals and applying child response data to important educational decisions. (NASDSE, 2005)
Why do it? IDEA [...]
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