ABSTRACT

This updated edition of the best-selling Strategies for Differentiating Instruction offers practical strategies that allow all students to learn at appropriately challenging levels and make continuous progress by focusing on their various levels of knowledge and readiness to learn. Written in a teacher-friendly manner, the book presents strategies that can be used in any classroom to ensure that each student's needs are met. This third edition includes strategies for Common Core State Standards alignment plus new Developing and Assessing Products (DAP) tools for a variety of products. Designed specifically for teachers who are new to differentiated instruction, this book offers sound, practical advice for preassessing students, implementing differentiation strategies, and managing and assessing student learning. This book is filled with the essentials teachers need to know in order to differentiate instruction and address all students' needs, interests, and abilities.

chapter Chapter 1|14 pages

One-Size-Fits-All? You've Got to Be Kidding!

chapter Chapter 2|8 pages

Multiple Ways to Define Academic Success

What Resonates With You?

chapter Chapter 3|23 pages

Climate

Creating a Comfort Zone

chapter Chapter 4|19 pages

Preassessment

Who Already Understands It or Can Do It?

chapter Chapter 5|16 pages

Tiering to Facilitate Continuous Progress

chapter Chapter 6|22 pages

Tiering Learning Experiences With Bloom's Taxonomy

chapter Chapter 7|22 pages

Tiering With Venn Diagrams

chapter Chapter 8|27 pages

Think-Tac-Toe

An Effective Tool for Tiering

chapter Chapter 9|20 pages

Managing the Differentiated Classroom

chapter Chapter 10|18 pages

Taming the Assessment Beast

chapter Chapter 11|4 pages

Building Support for Differentiation

Hard But Not Impossible to Do Alone