Differentiation: varied approaches to content, process, and product, in response to learner's (student's) needs.
Student differences to attend to
Readiness
Interest in material
Learning
Preferences
Framework to attend to student's needs:
Planning Good
Curriculum
Clear on essential ideas
Knowledge of content
Environment
Respect
Sense of Community
Organized
Flexible Grouping
Multiple
Strategies
Engaging Question
and Discussion
Professional
Responsibilities
Communication
Accurate Records
Assess to grow and develop
Backward Design: design backwards, with the end goal first. Example: building a house, use the blueprints
Understand By Design: teach
for understanding and transfer
Stage 1: Big idea
Understanding
Connecting the dots
Transfer Goals
Desired Accomplishment
Stage 3: Learning Plan
What we teach
What is logically
required by goals?
How we teach
Organize
See the big picture
Hook em'
Rethink
Take deeper
Personalize
Learning
Provide Resources
Evaluate
Knowledge / Skill
Plan to assess in stage 2
Stage 2: Valid Evidence
What we assess
Goal
Challenge
Role student plays
Performance
Audience student
is concerned with
Setting
Context
Standards
to judge
How we assess
Does the student have:
Explain
Interpret
Self-understanding
Apply
Empathy