Differentiated Instruction

  • Differentiation 101
          What Differentiation Is and Is Not
          Mind-Set and Key Elements
          Types of Differentiation
          What to differentiate and for whom
          Support Structures
  • Tools and Strategies
          Tiering
          Choice
          Formative Assessment
          Compacting
          Individualized Planning
          Depth and Complexity
          Content-Specific Tools
  • Collaborative Planning for Differentiation
  • Differentiation and Grading
  • Coaching for Differentiation

Collaborative Coaching

  • Partner/Small Group Coaching and Peer Observation
          Goal setting
          Observation protocol/student look fors
          Observation rotation
          Group debrief
          Reflection and Next Steps
  • Small Group Lesson Study
          Learn as we go Agreement          
          Facilitated Planning
          Focused Learning
          Collaborative Design and Build (Prep, Teach, Observe)
          Reflection and Next Steps
  • Initiative Coaching
          Trainer of Trainers
          Leveled Workshops
          Individual and Small Group Collaborative Planning
          Partner Teaching and Observation

Standards-Based Assessment

  • Deconstructing Standards
  • Defining Learning Targets
  • Creating Rubrics and Levels of Mastery
  • Types of Assessments/Ways to Demonstrate Learning
  • Design and Test Assessments
  • Grading based on Standards
  • Using assessments to design and refine instruction
  • Focus on "real-world" and application-based experiences

Every Classroom is a Studio Classroom, Levels of Student Engagement 

  • Small Group Facilitated Learning
          Levels of Student Engagement
          Student Look Fors
          Role Play
  • Student-centered Observations
  • Facilitated Debrief
  • Personalized Goal Setting
  • Instructional Brainstorm
  • Teacher-created Observation and Feedback

Getting to know the Common Core

  • Big Picture Common Core
  • Common Core and Elementary, Middle, or High School
  • ELA and Math Major Shifts
  • Why CCSS? Text Rendering Activity
  • Grade-specific Do/New Activity
  • Going Deeper Standard Deconstruction and Vertical Alignment
  • Assess What? Assess How? How the CCSS create new assessment opportunities.
  • New standards=New instruction. Shifting instructional practice to get our students to mastery.
  • Tiered Lesson/Unit Planning with a set of related standards
Common Core Differentiated Workshop.pdf
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Early Identification of Giftedness with the Kingore Gifted Potential assessments

  • Why Early Identification
  • Gifted Characteristics
  • Classroom practices to nurture gifted behavior
  • Kingore Observation Inventory-procedures and practice
  • Kingore Planned Experiences-procedures, practice, and planning
  • Analyzing Observations and Planned Experiences for Gifted Potential
  • Differentiation for Gifted students
See the training agenda on the Resources page.