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    Differentiated instruction involves modifying content, process, product, and learning environment based on student readiness, interests, and learning profiles. There are four essential elements of differentiation: (1) Content, which refers to what is taught and can be adapted based on student ability levels; (2) Process, or how students make sense of ideas and demonstrate understanding, through flexible grouping, choice, and support; (3) Product, how students apply their knowledge in authentic ways through various modes of expression; and (4) Learning Environment, the physically and psychologically nurturing setting that enhances a differentiated curriculum. Together, these elements allow teachers to challenge all students by addressing varying needs and developing higher-order thinking.

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    Differentiated instruction involves modifying content, process, product, and learning environment based on student readiness, interests, and learning profiles. There are four essential elements of differentiation: (1) Content, which refers to what is taught and can be adapted based on student ability levels; (2) Process, or how students make sense of ideas and demonstrate understanding, through flexible grouping, choice, and support; (3) Product, how students apply their knowledge in authentic ways through various modes of expression; and (4) Learning Environment, the physically and psychologically nurturing setting that enhances a differentiated curriculum. Together, these elements allow teachers to challenge all students by addressing varying needs and developing higher-order thinking.

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    Differentiated instruction involves modifying content, process, product, and learning environment based on student readiness, interests, and learning profiles. There are four essential elements of differentiation: (1) Content, which refers to what is taught and can be adapted based on student ability levels; (2) Process, or how students make sense of ideas and demonstrate understanding, through flexible grouping, choice, and support; (3) Product, how students apply their knowledge in authentic ways through various modes of expression; and (4) Learning Environment, the physically and psychologically nurturing setting that enhances a differentiated curriculum. Together, these elements allow teachers to challenge all students by addressing varying needs and developing higher-order thinking.

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    Essential Elements of Differentiated Instruction

    Differentiation:
    Content
    What is taught

    Differentiation:
    Process
    How students
    make
    connections
    and construct
    meaning

    Differentiation:
    Product
    How students
    demonstrate
    what they have
    learned
    Differentiation:
    Learning
    Environment

    Content is knowledge, skills, principles, ideas, and concepts.


    Ways to differentiate content:

    Elevate sophistication and complexity of content

    Use a variety of ways to convey key concepts

    Integrate complex problems

    Connect various subject areas in interdisciplinary studies


    Process is how the learner interacts with the material presented.
    Process involves methods of presenting material, activities, thinking processes, and questions asked.
    Ways to differentiate process:

    Use flexible/cluster grouping

    Vary the options for the activity depending on the readiness of the learner

    Allow for student choice

    Vary the pacing

    Offer different amounts of teacher support

    Incorporate higher levels of thinking, open endedness, exploration and discovery, reasoning, and transfer
    of learning

    Integrate problem-solving skills into the curriculum

    Include research and investigative skills

    Allow for independent study


    Product is the result of student interaction with the content, the item used to demonstrate what the student has
    learned.
    Ways to differentiate product:

    Design product around essential questions, real problems, real audience

    Encourage critical and creative thinking

    Develop rubrics reflecting level of learning and expected outcome

    Allow for various forms of expression


    Learning environment is the setting/climate where learning takes place both physically and psychologically.
    Ways to differentiate learning environment:

    Allow opportunities for all students to use their strengths, interests, and abilities by differentiation of
    content, process, and product

    Develop supportive learning environments that enhance differentiated curricula and instruction

    Establishing a
    nurturing
    learning
    environment
    Critical and
    Creative
    Thinking
    Establishing a
    foundation for
    developing
    higher-order
    thinking
    Rigor

    Enabling
    students to
    develop their
    maximum
    potential

    Infusing critical and creative thinking skills into content instruction develops students capabilities for quality
    thinking and learning.

    Comparing and contrasting

    Problem solving

    Decision making

    Making predictions

    Sequencing

    Generating ideas

    Analyzing and evaluating


    Rigor is the quality of the content.

    Focus on in-depth study of complex, abstract, and sophisticated content

    Incorporate metacognitive strategies

    Provide opportunities to develop highly specialized, real-world skills within a discipline

    Build upon interests, strengths, and personal goals of students

    Incorporate sophisticated investigations of materials, texts, interactive technologies and learning activities

    Foster advanced critical and creative processes

    Utilize existing knowledge and create new knowledge

    Create life-long learners and thinkers capable of independent reflection, self-evaluation, and reasoning

    Adapted from Carol Ann Tomlinsons and Mary S. Landrums work on differentiation and The Non-Negotiables of Academic Rigor from the
    Exceptional Children Division of the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.

    WCPSS AG Program 2009

    Toolbox for Planning Rigorous Instruction

    Section 3: Differentiation - 2

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