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Welcome! ¡Bienvenido! • Please fold an index card in half to form a
“tent” and write your name on both sides. • Leave this card with your instructor at the end
of each class.
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Course Start Up
• Registering for credit.• Contributing to Learning Environment – Food!• Course requirements
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Today’s Goals / Objectives
Content Objectives• Understand student variance• Try out activities that you can use to create a
differentiated mindset among students• Know which components of teaching can be
differentiated and which should not.Language Objective:• Listen and read about differentiation; write and
speak to show understanding.
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Out-of-Class Reading Assignment
“Preface” by Carol Ann TomlinsonFrom her new book, Leading and
Managing a Differentiated Classroom
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Maslow’s Hierarchy of NeedsSelf-
Transcendence
Self-Actualization
Esteem / Academics
Safety and Security
Clothing, Food, Shelter, Sleep
From Tomlinson, pg. 39
Academic learning requires students
to work at the highest level of
need satisfaction within their grasp.
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A Framework for Differentiation Part I
1. Who are you as learners? (Are you all alike or are there important differences?)
2. Given the differences we see, how should I teach you?
3. If our classroom is going to work for all of us, what will it be like? (How will it need to function? What roles will each of us play?)
4. How can I learn more about your starting points, interests, and best ways of learning?
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Pre-Assessment…Getting to Know You
Building Assignment Role
Part to Whole or Whole to Part?Groupie or Soloist?Visual, Auditory, or Kinesthetic?
Hobbies? Interests?
# of Years Teaching
! ? . University Affiliation?
Write Your Full NameEmail
Texting Phone Number
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Stand Up, Hand Up, Pair Up
Rotate 3 times.Speak with people you don’t know.
What would you change on the index card to make this activity work with your students?
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The Line Up
• Last Names: A-K
Budgeting
Spelling
Organization
Scrapbook-ing
Hosting a Party
Keeping desk clean Writing
Speaking Spanish
Knitting
Algebra
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The Line Up
• Last Names: L-Z
Swimming
Yoga
Skiing
Drawing
Sudoku
Cooking Writing IEPs
Chess
Volleyball
Driving
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“The teacher’s overriding moral purpose is to meet the needs of students, even when it conflicts with personal preferences.”
-Lorna Earle, Assessment as Learning
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“We will not successfully restructure schools to be effective until we stop seeing diversity as a problem.”
-Wiggins, 1992
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Strengths and Weaknesses Bar GraphI am excellent at this.I am very good at this.I am fairly good at this.I can do this if I work hardI’m not very good at this, but I want to beI really don’t like this.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Bar 1 – Reading Bar 2 – Writing Bar 3 – Math Bar 4 – ScienceBar 5 – History Bar 6 – Acting Bar 7 – Sports Bar 8 – Singing
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Strengths and Weaknesses Bar GraphI am excellent at this.I am very good at this.I am fairly good at this.I can do this if I work hardI’m not very good at this, but I want to beI really don’t like this.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Strength Training
Bar 1 – Reading Bar 2 – Writing Bar 3 – Math Bar 4 – ScienceBar 5 – History Bar 6 – Acting Bar 7 – Sports Bar 8 – Singing
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A Framework for DifferentiationPart II
5. If we have a differentiated classroom, can it be fair? (What will ‘fair’ mean in this room?)
6. What will success in this class mean? (How will I know if you’re succeeding? How will you know?)
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Note Taking: Your First Strategy Lesson
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How Not to Get SuedA Legal Primer.
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Classroom Teachers and the Curriculum – Legal Precedent
• As a general rule, courts consider classroom methodologies and techniques as the professional prerogative of teachers. Owasso ISD v Falvo (2002)
• However, the education of school children is not left to the whim of individual teachers to teach what they please, whenever they please, and in any way they please. Peloza v Capistrano (1994)
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• Classroom teachers do not have a “constitutional right to require students to forgo a portion of their education they would be entitled to.” Palmer v Board of Education (1980)
• Children who do not speak English are entitled to equal access to school curriculum. Lau v Nichols, (1974)
Classroom Teachers and the Curriculum – Legal Precedent
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Teaching Components
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An organized plan of what students should know, understand, and be able to do as a result of instruction in your class.
Curriculum
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The physical and emotional context in which learning occurs.
Learning Environment
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Learning Environment“As teachers, our mood and energy levels set in motion ‘weather fronts’ that permeate through the day and affect our students. Our weariness settles on students like fog; our joy becomes their excitement.”
-Carol Ann Tomlinson
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Learning Environment
Mantra for Good Teacher/Parent Relationships
If parents believe you dislike their child, NOTHING you do will ever be good enough.
If parents believe you adore their child, minor errors on your part will be easily forgiven.
This is all you really need to know.
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The process of teaching, educating, and engaging students with content.
Instruction
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• A data-gathering and analysis process that determines the degree to which students have achieved curricular goals.
• Assessment informs decisions about and planning for instruction.
Assessment
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Final Thoughts
• When was the last time you experienced something adjusted to your personal needs? –How did it make you feel?
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