Welcome! ¡ Bienvenido !

Big Topic Main Point Examples, Facts, Details

Welcome! ¡Bienvenido! • Please fold an index card in half to form a

“tent” and write your name on both sides. • Leave this card with your instructor at the end

of each class.


Course Start Up

• Registering for credit.• Contributing to Learning Environment – Food!• Course requirements


Today’s Goals / Objectives

Content Objectives• Understand student variance• Try out activities that you can use to create a

differentiated mindset among students• Know which components of teaching can be

differentiated and which should not.Language Objective:• Listen and read about differentiation; write and

speak to show understanding.


Out-of-Class Reading Assignment

“Preface” by Carol Ann TomlinsonFrom her new book, Leading and

Managing a Differentiated Classroom


Maslow’s Hierarchy of NeedsSelf-Transcendence

Self-Actualization

Esteem / Academics

Safety and Security

Clothing, Food, Shelter, Sleep

From Tomlinson, pg. 39

Academic learning requires students

to work at the highest level of

need satisfaction within their grasp.


A Framework for Differentiation Part I

1. Who are you as learners? (Are you all alike or are there important differences?)

2. Given the differences we see, how should I teach you?

3. If our classroom is going to work for all of us, what will it be like? (How will it need to function? What roles will each of us play?)

4. How can I learn more about your starting points, interests, and best ways of learning?


Pre-Assessment…Getting to Know You

Building Assignment Role

Part to Whole or Whole to Part?Groupie or Soloist?Visual, Auditory, or Kinesthetic?

Hobbies? Interests?

# of Years Teaching

! ? . University Affiliation?

Write Your Full NameEmail

Texting Phone Number


Stand Up, Hand Up, Pair Up

Rotate 3 times.Speak with people you don’t know.

What would you change on the index card to make this activity work with your students?


The Line Up

• Last Names: A-K

Budgeting

Spelling

Organization

Scrapbook-ing

Hosting a Party

Keeping desk clean Writing

Speaking Spanish

Knitting

Algebra


The Line Up

• Last Names: L-Z

Swimming

Yoga

Skiing

Drawing

Sudoku

Cooking Writing IEPs

Chess

Volleyball

Driving


“The teacher’s overriding moral purpose is to meet the needs of students, even when it conflicts with personal preferences.”

-Lorna Earle, Assessment as Learning


“We will not successfully restructure schools to be effective until we stop seeing diversity as a problem.”

-Wiggins, 1992


Strengths and Weaknesses Bar GraphI am excellent at this.I am very good at this.I am fairly good at this.I can do this if I work hardI’m not very good at this, but I want to beI really don’t like this.

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Bar 1 – Reading Bar 2 – Writing Bar 3 – Math Bar 4 – ScienceBar 5 – History Bar 6 – Acting Bar 7 – Sports Bar 8 – Singing


Strengths and Weaknesses Bar GraphI am excellent at this.I am very good at this.I am fairly good at this.I can do this if I work hardI’m not very good at this, but I want to beI really don’t like this.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Strength Training

Bar 1 – Reading Bar 2 – Writing Bar 3 – Math Bar 4 – ScienceBar 5 – History Bar 6 – Acting Bar 7 – Sports Bar 8 – Singing


A Framework for DifferentiationPart II

5. If we have a differentiated classroom, can it be fair? (What will ‘fair’ mean in this room?)

6. What will success in this class mean? (How will I know if you’re succeeding? How will you know?)


Note Taking: Your First Strategy Lesson

Big TopicMain Point

Main Point

Main Point

Examples, Facts, Details

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How Not to Get SuedA Legal Primer.


Classroom Teachers and the Curriculum – Legal Precedent

• As a general rule, courts consider classroom methodologies and techniques as the professional prerogative of teachers. Owasso ISD v Falvo (2002)

• However, the education of school children is not left to the whim of individual teachers to teach what they please, whenever they please, and in any way they please. Peloza v Capistrano (1994)


• Classroom teachers do not have a “constitutional right to require students to forgo a portion of their education they would be entitled to.” Palmer v Board of Education (1980)

• Children who do not speak English are entitled to equal access to school curriculum. Lau v Nichols, (1974)

Classroom Teachers and the Curriculum – Legal Precedent


Teaching Components


An organized plan of what students should know, understand, and be able to do as a result of instruction in your class.

Curriculum


The physical and emotional context in which learning occurs.

Learning Environment


Learning Environment“As teachers, our mood and energy levels set in motion ‘weather fronts’ that permeate through the day and affect our students. Our weariness settles on students like fog; our joy becomes their excitement.”-Carol Ann Tomlinson


Learning Environment

Mantra for Good Teacher/Parent Relationships

If parents believe you dislike their child, NOTHING you do will ever be good enough.

If parents believe you adore their child, minor errors on your part will be easily forgiven.

This is all you really need to know.


The process of teaching, educating, and engaging students with content.

Instruction


• A data-gathering and analysis process that determines the degree to which students have achieved curricular goals.

• Assessment informs decisions about and planning for instruction.

Assessment


Final Thoughts

• When was the last time you experienced something adjusted to your personal needs? –How did it make you feel?

Welcome! ¡ Bienvenido !

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