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The following quote is from Brimfield, Masci, and DeFiore's Differentiating instruction to teach All learners""Walking into Ms. Gage's sixth grade English class, a visitor sees six students seated around a listening center playing a tape of The Outsiders while they complete a graphic organizer comparing Ponyboy's experiences to their own. Another group of six students is seated in a literature circle discussing the themes of the different novels they have read independently. The teacher is in the front of the room with six students conducting a mini-lesson on narrator's point of view using the overhead projector. The remaining four students work independently on self-selected anchor activities related to figurative language" (p. 14).
The next three quotes are from Rick Wormelli's Meet Me in the Middle:"When showing a filmstrip, a teacher asks some students to take notes on what they consider the most important points. She gives another group of students a list of questions to answer using information from the filmstrip, and asks a third group to fill in the correct words on a graphic organizer. A fourth group uses a photocopy of the filmstrip narration and highlights the answers to questions revealed in the filmstrip" (p.70).
"All students listen to the same guest lecturer and take notes in the same style modeled by the teacher. For homework, students choose one of the five options for reflecting on the speaker's message based on their learning profile or skill with the particular topic. They can write a poem, write and perform a skit, create a mind map of content, share the content with mom or dad and get their responses to it, or list the speaker's main points and categorize them according to similar attributes" (p.70).
"Before beginning a research project on the Civil War, students review background material from videos, slide shows, field trips, class presentations/discussions, books, and guest speakers. The teacher asks the students to focus on one topic. After showing them how to narrow topics ("Civil War" becomes "Battles of the Civil War," which becomes "Gettysburg," which becomes "Strategies Used in the Battle of Gettysburg"), the teacher asks the students to brainstorm twenty questions about their topic. With the teacher or a peer, the students then narrow the questions to three that they consider most important and interesting, and use those questions to conduct further research" (p.70).
For examples of posters created in a differentiated classroom setting visit: http://www.wilmette.newtrier.k12.il.us/ wilmette/CDpage/classrooms.html
Created by: Students at the University of Maine at Farmington Carolyn Shorey:carolynshorey@hotmail.com Sarah Olmsted:omisj@hotmail.com
Becky Waugh:waughb42@aol.com
Eric Feeney:efeene@hotmail.com
