georgia performance standards day 6: differentiation
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Georgia Performance Standards
Day 6: Day 6:
DifferentiationDifferentiation
Fund Raising IdeasThe entire sixth grade class at Daysix Middle School is planning a huge party to celebrate the fact that they have led the nation in student
achievement. To assure that the party is absolutely awesome, they need to hold a walk-a-thon fund raiser. The students will earn money based on the number of kilometers walked.
1.You are not limited to the types of sponsorship agreements. Invent as many different sponsorship scenarios as you can for walking in this fundraiser.
Be creative!
Georgia Performance Standards
Day 6: Day 6:
DifferentiationDifferentiation
Getting Acquainted• Name Tag:
– First Name or Nickname
• Index Card:– Name– E-mail Address– System/School– GPS Status
Group Norms and Housekeeping
Group Norms:• Ask questions• Work toward solutions• Honor confidentiality• Meet commitments or
let others know if you are struggling
Housekeeping:• Parking Lot• Phone calls• Rest rooms• Breaks• Lunch
Four Corners, Part 1
Choose a corner based on your confidence in understanding the GPS for 6th Grade Mathematics:
Needs Rethinking In Development Quality Exceptional
Four Corners, Part 2
What made you choose your corner?
Discuss what you know and
what you want to know.
Be prepared to share with the group.
CALVIN AND HOBBES © 1993 Watterson. Dist. By UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved.
Essential Question #1
What is differentiation and how does it fit into the standards-based education process?
What is Differentiation?
“Come to the edge,” he said.
“We are afraid,” they said.
“Come to the edge,” he said.
THEY DID.
And he pushed them,
And they flew.--Apolonaire
Standards Based Education Model
GP
SG
PS
GP
SG
PS
(one or more)
StandardsElements
(one or more)
StandardsElements
Stage 1Identify Desired Results(Big Ideas) Enduring Understandings
Essential Questions
Skills and Knowledge
Stage 1Identify Desired Results(Big Ideas) Enduring Understandings
Essential Questions
Skills and Knowledge
All above, plusTasksStudent WorkTeacherCommentary
All above, plusTasksStudent WorkTeacherCommentary
Stage 2Determine Acceptable
Evidence(Design Balanced Assessments)
(To assess student progress toward desired results)
Stage 2Determine Acceptable
Evidence(Design Balanced Assessments)
(To assess student progress toward desired results)
Stage 3Plan Learning Experiences and
Instruction(to support student success on assessments,
leading to desired results)
Stage 3Plan Learning Experiences and
Instruction(to support student success on assessments,
leading to desired results)
All aboveAll above
According to Grant Wiggins:
"Good planning leaves room for the unplannable. You do not know what you'll be doing on April 11, and you're a fool if you think so. If you do, then the curriculum is more important to you than your students."
(Grant Wiggins, "Designing and Using Student Reflections and Self-Assessment," ASCD Summer Conference on Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design, June 2005)
Self-Assessment
Some Underlying Assumptions
Of
Differentiated Instruction
Essential Principles of Differentiation
1. Good Curriculum Comes First
2. All Tasks Should Be Respectful of the Learner
3. When in Doubt, Teach Up
4. Use Flexible Grouping
5. Become an Assessment Junkie
6. Grade for Growth
--Tomlinson & Eidson, Differentiation in Practice, Grades 5-9, 13-15.
Fund Raising Ideas Tic-Tac-Toe2. Choose one of the scenarios and construct a table of values representing the money earned after having walked 0, 1, 2, 3, … kilometers.
3. Make a prediction concerning what you think the graph will look like when it is complete. Will it be straight or curved and why?
4. Plot the pairs of values found (the distance walked and the money earned) on a large graph. Remember to label your x and y axis.
5. Repeat steps 2-4 to get tic-tac-toe.
R-I-C-E
Fund Raising Ideas
6. Find a way to represent your scenarios as equations, using d to represent the distance walked and $ to represent the amount of money earned.
7. Write these symbolic representations in different ways.
8. Compare and contrast the graphs of the various sponsorship agreements. What do you think might affect the changes from one graph to another and why?
Fund Raising Ideas
9. Explore ways of increasing the amount of money raised for the walk-a-thon.
10. Prepare a presentation to the sixth grade class that would help them to see and understand what kinds of sponsorship agreements you think would yield the most money.
Ticket Out of the Room(Break/Lunch time!)
Reflection:
• What I have learned this morning.
• How I feel about it.
• How I can use this new knowledge.
Announcements• College Board’s
Official SAT Prep Online Course!
• Materials are on the way to your schools!
• A sixth grade framework has been added to the GPS mathematics site!
Training Materials
Frequently Asked Questions
http://www.georgiastandards.org
Standards
NEW! Framework
Essential Question #2
How and why do we differentiate?
HOW Do We Differentiate?
Pre-assessment information helps teachers to respond to students’ needs and to match students’ traits to specific, most effective means of differentiation:
Content
Process
Product
Learning Environment
DifferentiationIn yoursmallgroup,divide your chart paper into four columns and five rows.
What
is it?
How to differentiate
Strategies to use
Content
Process
Product
Learning Environment
WHY Do We Differentiate?
The Equalizer
Concrete to abstractSimple to complexBasic to transformationalFewer facets to multi-facetsSmaller leaps to greater leapsMore structured to more openLess independence to greater independenceSlow to faster Tomlinson,1995
Shape 1 Shape 2 Shape 3 Shape 4
• Use a pattern from the shapes above to determine the perimeter of the fifth shape in the sequence. Show or explain how you arrived at your answer.
• Write a formula that you could use to find the perimeter of any shape n. Explain how you found your formula.
• Which shape has a perimeter of 128?
Building with Toothpicks
PracticeTHE TASK:
Analyze the Building with Toothpicks Task.
THE TOOLS: • How could we differentiate—content, process, product, learning environment; • Why would we differentiate—access, motivation, efficiency; • The Equalizer.
Differentiation Stratego: A Reality Game
• Shuffle the deck of profile cards.
• Equally distribute as many of the cards as possible.
• Provide appropriate differentiation for your given task.
• Display your results on chart paper.
• When finished, post your work.
• Be prepared to share your plan.
Essential Question #3
What does a differentiated classroom look like?
A True/False Quiz:What Does Differentiated Instruction Look Like?
Directions:
• Mark each item TRUE or FALSE. • When finished compare your answers to the others in
your table group. • Should you disagree, discuss your various points and
attempt to reach consensus.• Be prepared to share with the whole group.
Traditional vs. Differentiated
• Read the characteristics of a traditional classroom.
• Read the characteristics of the differentiated classroom.
• Develop a creative demonstration of the characteristics of a traditional vs. differentiated classroom.
• Be prepared to share.
Set a Goal
• You’ve got mail!
Task Time!
Pick any Unit 4 task from the Framework.
While doing the task, list ways to differentiate.
Be prepared to share your ideas.
Your Assignment
• Redeliver Day 6 Training.
• Bring 4 copies of a student work sample to Day 7 Training.
• Bring a copy of the assignment for the work samples to Day 7 Training.
• Bring the two signed permission forms to Day 7 Training.
Give Yourself a Hand
You deserve it. Educators ROCK!
