AR Co-Teaching Project Team:

Rose Merry KirkpatrickPetra Bland

Susan Friberg

Differentiated Instruction in the Co-Taught Classroom III:

The Journey Continues

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AR Co-Teaching Professional Development Team

Rose Merry KirkpatrickPetra Bland Susan Friberg

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Objectives

• Review differentiated instruction vocabulary

• Know how tiered lessons can support the process of differentiating instruction

• View sample tiered lessons

• Understand the step-by-step process for creating tiered lessons

• Receive resources to use in developing tiered lessons

Differentiation is a teacher’s response to learner’s needs,

guided by these general principals:

• Respectful Tasks

• Flexible Grouping

• Ongoing Assessment & Adjustment

Florida Inclusion Network

Effective Teachers Differentiate

Content Process Product

according to students’

Readiness Interests Learning Profile

Florida Inclusion Network

Today’s Conversation: Differentiating by Content

Let’s Hear From You

Tell us about how you have differentiated instruction by content (what you teach).

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What is a Tiered Lesson?

“Tiered lessons are used to meet the needs of student readiness by providing multiple assignments with the same understandings, but at varying degrees of difficulty.”

Florida Inclusion Network

Tiered lessons are the meat and potatoes of differentiated instruction.

Tomlinson (1999)

Raise your “hand” if you have created a Tiered Lesson

Lessons Tiered According to Students’

• Readiness (ability to understand a particular level of content)

• Learning Profiles (style of learning)

• Interests (student interest in the topics to be studied)

English Tiered Lesson

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Necessities for Using Tiered Lessons

• Classroom management plan for working in groups

• Anchoring activities for students who finish early

Essential Steps/Process in Developing a Tiered Lesson

1. Identify the Framework Standard being targeted

2. Identify the key concept or the “big idea”

3. Pre-assess for background knowledge & skills

4. Select what will be tiered

5. Decide how the lesson will be tiered

6. Determine number of tiers needed & develop the lesson

7. Develop assessments

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Step 1

Identify the Framework Standard/s being targeted.

Step 2

Identify the key concept or the “big idea”

The key concept follows from the standard, & the overall idea follows from the concept. Ask yourself,

•“What ‘big idea’ am I targeting? •“What do I want the students to know at the end of the lesson, regardless of their placement in the tiers?”

Big Ideas

• Are derived from key concepts

• Are at the heart of a discipline

• Require making connections with real life

• May be abstract

• Raise essential questions

• Are universal & have enduring value

• Are tied to instructional goals & curriculum objectives

Key Concepts Big IdeasMultiplication & Division We can use multiplication &

division strategies to solve real-world & mathematical problems

Place The uniqueness of place is a consequence of different social, political & environmental factors

Systems & Energy Most of what goes on in the universe involves some form of energy being transformed into another form

STEP 3

Pre-assess for background knowledge & skills

• What must have been already covered or what must the student have already learned?

• Are there other skills that must be taught first?

Step 4

Select what you will tier

• Content• Process• Product

Step 5

Select how you will tier

• Readiness• Interest• Learning Profile

Step 6

Determine number of tiers you will need & develop the lesson

Step 7

Develop the assessments

“Complexity factors can help teachers plan variations of

concepts & skills within a single lesson”

B. Kingore, 2004

Complexity Factors

• Degree of assistance & support

• Degree of structure

• Required background knowledge & skills

• Concrete or more abstract

Complexity Factors Continued

• Quality of resources

• Complexity of resources

• Complexity of product

• Complexity of process

Fraction Tiered Lesson

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Language Arts Tiered Lesson

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Science Tiered Lesson

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Resources for Tiered Lessons

• Indiana Curriculum Project

• Critical Questions About Tiered Lessons

• “Best Practices: Instructional Strategies and Techniques”

Co-Teaching Wiki Incentive Winner

February Co-Teaching Partnership Follow-up Sessions

• Complete Interest Survey & Register– 2/24/09 Elementary Co-Teaching Partners– 2/25/09 Middle – High School Partners

• Bring materials for planning– Frameworks– Pacing guides– Teacher manuals

• Plan to share your successes

Updates

• Semester Grades 2/6/09– Students with & without disabilities– Photocopy grade sheet or use form– Remove names & use * to identify students

with disabilities

• Check In & Set Goals

Poll: How Did It Go Today?