Digital Differentiated

Instruction:

Developing Teachers who Develop

Content For Millenial Students!

Agenda & Meeting The Team

Orientation & Audience

Technology Buzzword /Virtual

Education Check

Incorporating Virtual: The

Digital Classroom, Digital

Content & Online Classes

Millennial Kids, The Digital

Teacher & Administrator

What Is Differentiated

Instruction in a Digital

Environment?

LIVE classroom: model the

experiences of students and

teachers

This Is A Work Session with Q

& A

Trina Trimm & Mike Ficara

Manny Riera

Lina Sierra

IDENTIFY YOUR NEEDS

FIND YOUR SOLUTION

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• REDUCE CLASS SIZE• ROLL WAIT LISTS• ENRICHMENT • SUMMER SCHOOL• AFTER SCHOOL• CREDIT RECOVERY• ADD A GRADE LEVEL• EXPAND CURRICULUM• ADD SCHOOL

PROGRAMS • REDUCE RECURRING

COSTS

Why Bother Why Bother To Go To Go Digital?Digital?

First Generation of Virtual First Generation of Virtual & Digital Content & Digital Content ProvidersProviders

First Generation of Virtual First Generation of Virtual & Digital Content & Digital Content ProvidersProviders

•

•Replicated “school”

•SAME as bricks & mortar

First Generation of Virtual & First Generation of Virtual & Digital Content ProvidersDigital Content ProvidersFirst Generation of Virtual & First Generation of Virtual & Digital Content ProvidersDigital Content ProvidersNot SAME experience but EQUIVALENT educational opportunity

New ways to engage students

New opportunities for teachers

What is Second Generation?What is Second Generation?What is Second Generation?What is Second Generation?• Digital ClassroomsDigital Classrooms

• Customizable CurriculumCustomizable Curriculum

• Open SourceOpen Source

• Open CoursewareOpen Courseware

• Make Good Teachers – STARSMake Good Teachers – STARS

• NOT locked into a single NOT locked into a single

VendorVendor

• Digital ClassroomsDigital Classrooms

• Customizable CurriculumCustomizable Curriculum

• Open SourceOpen Source

• Open CoursewareOpen Courseware

• Make Good Teachers – STARSMake Good Teachers – STARS

• NOT locked into a single NOT locked into a single

VendorVendor

DIGITAL CLASSROOMSTeacher in the classroom LIVE with

students

Use of projector/computer (Boards Optional)

Online Content/Curriculum Resources

Students with or without computers

Communications Tools… email, digital drop boxes, use of blogs, wikis, google groups, etc.

What is Differentiated Instruction?

“…differentiated instruction refers to a systematic approach to planning curriculum and instruction for academically diverse learners. It is a way of thinking about the classroom with the dual goals of honoring each student’s learning needs and maximizing each student’s learning capacity.”

~ Carol Ann Tomlinson, 2003Differentiation in Practice: A Resource Guide

for Differentiating Curriculum Grades 5-9, p. 3

Differentiated InstructionDifferentiated Instruction

• Optimum methodOptimum method

• All kids work at their levelAll kids work at their level

• High are challengedHigh are challenged

• Low are being supportedLow are being supported

• Middle stay on trackMiddle stay on track

• Assignment by GroupAssignment by Group

How do teachers differentiate?

(Dimensions of Differentiated Instruction)

Three teacher-dependent dimensions• Content• Process• Product

CONTENT

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UDL Elements – Standards-Based Content

DevelopmentDifferentiated Instruction

Provide multiple examples through specific text.

Stopping to point our critical features in the passage.

Use different formats

Active background knowledge

Teacher and peer feedback

Provide tiered lessons

Provide varying support to students and varying difficulty of

tasks

Universal Design for Learning

Provide multiple examples

Highlight critical features

Provide multi media and formats

Support background context

Offer choices of content and tools

Offer adjustable levels of challenge

Digital Content Can Be….Digital Content Can Be….•MoviesMovies•FlashFlash•PicturesPictures•AudioAudio•MusicMusic•eTextseTexts

Customizable Customizable CurriculumCurriculum• OwnershipOwnership

• SequenceSequence

• New LessonsNew Lessons

• Multiple ResourcesMultiple Resources

• Open SourceOpen Source

Credit RecoveryCredit Recovery• Modular Digital Modular Digital

ClassroomClassroom

• Child Re-takes ModuleChild Re-takes Module

• Grade Book UpdatedGrade Book Updated

• Child Masters SkillChild Masters Skill

• INSTANT InterventionINSTANT Intervention

55thth Grader Feedback… Grader Feedback…

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are needed to see this picture.

ProcessProvide students with “multiple options to taking in information and making sense of

ideas.” (NCAC p.2)“Give your students as much responsibility for

their learning process as possible.” (Tomlinson, 38)

Higher order thinking strategies

•Begin differentiating at the student’s level.•Guide the student toward higher-order strategies.•Provide tiered lessons in order to accommodate all students.•Use flexible grouping to foster collaboration among students.

New and Old Bloom’sOriginal Terms New

Terms

Evaluation

Synthesis

Analysis

Application

Comprehension

Knowledge

•Creating

•Evaluating

•Analyzing

•Applying

•Understanding

•Remembering

(Based on Pohl, 2000, Learning to Think, Thinking

to Learn, p. 8)

Product•Use assessment results to determine student need.•Provide interesting, engaging and accessible tasks that will lead to understanding.•Ensure students are challenged.•Allow students to express themselves in several ways.•Tasks should have varied degrees of difficulty to ensure all learners are accommodated.

How do we do

it?

•Review student assessment results.•Examine curriculum to determine which aspects can be adapted for differentiated instruction.•Evaluate a variety of instructional strategies to tailor instruction to meet student need.•Vary delivery methods to target the types of learners in your classroom.•Assess students to determine growth and provide scaffolding or more challenging tasks.

What are best practices in a DI

classroom?Lessons should be engagingLessons should emphasize critical and creative thinking

How do we train teachers to incorporate Differentiated Instruction in a digital

environment?

TrainingFostering CollaborationMentoringCoaching

Create a culture of Create a culture of never ending learning!never ending learning!

Takes Work!Takes Work!

Teacher FearsTeacher Fears• Does This Replace Us?Does This Replace Us?

• Can I learn This?Can I learn This?

• Does This Take Up Too Much Does This Take Up Too Much

Time?Time?

• Where Do I Begin?Where Do I Begin?

• Who Will Help?Who Will Help?

• What Do You Expect?What Do You Expect?

HOW DO I MANAGE THIS?HOW DO I MANAGE THIS?

•What Should This Look Like?What Should This Look Like?

•How Much Does This Cost?How Much Does This Cost?

•How Much Is Enough?How Much Is Enough?

•What Content Do I Use & What What Content Do I Use & What

Processes Do I Use? Processes Do I Use?

•How Do I Train Teachers?How Do I Train Teachers?

•How Do I Evaluate Teachers, How Do I Evaluate Teachers,

Students, Success?Students, Success?

ProfessionaProfessionall

DevelopmeDevelopmentnt

ProfessionaProfessionall

DevelopmeDevelopmentnt

TutorinTutoringg

TutorinTutoringg

ContinuousContinuousProgress Progress

monitoringmonitoring

ContinuousContinuousProgress Progress

monitoringmonitoring

MentorinMentoringg

MentorinMentoringg

ObservatioObservationn

ObservatioObservationn

DigitalDigitalSchoolSchoolDigitalDigitalSchoolSchool

Shared Resources ~ Teacher Shared Resources ~ Teacher CommonsCommons

 Teacher Commons for continuous communication with digital teacher

network for lesson collaboration along with effective content and

delivery techniques

TrainingTraining• Initial On-Site TrainingInitial On-Site Training

• On-Site Implementation On-Site Implementation

TeamTeam

• Video Training LibraryVideo Training Library

• 24 Hour Help Desk 24 Hour Help Desk

Welcome to Digital Classroom 101!

Student Experience1. Go to websitewww. csk12.com

2. Log in using your assigned student user id and password

3. Enter your digital classroom and complete your assignment

Be prepared to present the

work you have created

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TEACHER EXPERIENCE

FOLLOW US LIVE AS

User inacol teacher

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A good teacher makes you think even when you don’t want

to.

(Fisher, 1998, Teaching Thinking)

ResourcesFisher R. (1998/2003) Teaching Thinking: Philosophical

Enquiry in the Classroom, London: Continuum.

National Center on Assessing the General Curriculum (NCAC) (2002). Differentiated Instruction: Effective Classroom

Practices Report.

Pohl, Michael. (2000). Learning to Think, Thinking to Learn: Models and Strategies to Develop a Classroom Culture of

Thinking. Cheltenham, Vic.: Hawker Brownlow.

Tomlinson, C. & Allan, D. S. (2000). Leadership for differentiating schools & classrooms. Alexandria, VA: ASCD.

Tomlinson, Carol, A ., Cunningham Edison, C. (2003). Differentiation in Practice: A resource guide for differentiating curriculum. Alexandria, VA: ASCD.

Tomlinson, Carol, A . (2001). How to Differentiate Instruction in a Mixed-Ability Classrooms. Alexandria, VA: ASCD.