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__//**Differentiated Instruction - Common Message**//__

Step 1 -  What is **Readiness**? What is **Content**?  Process (December 2) – How students come to understand and “own” the knowledge, understanding, and skills essential to a topic. Products (January 20) – How a student demonstrates what he or she has come to know, understand, and be able to do, as a result of a segment of study. By student **Readiness** - The current knowledge, understanding, and skill level a student has related to a particular sequence of learning.
 * Content** (November 4) – What we teach and how we give students access to the information and ideas that matter.

Step 2 -  Determine Essential "Learnings" What skills and/or concepts are truly essential for ALL students to obtain.  Step 3 -  How Can We Determine Readiness? MAP, Unit Test, Dibels, BRI, Running Records, ITBS/ITEDS, ANY formative or summative classroom assessment.
 *  **What Differentiated Instruction Means for Teachers**  ||
 *  **Teachers DO**  ||  **Teachers DON'T**   ||
 * provide several learning options, or different paths to learning, which help students take in information and make sense of concepts and skills. || develop a separate lesson plan for each student in a classroom. ||
 * provide appropriate levels of challenge for all students, including those who lag behind, those who are advanced, and those right in the middle. || "water down" the curriculum for some students. ||

Step 4 -  Identify the "Middle" of the Class and then Organize Instruction for Students "Outside" the Middle

Step 5 -  Challenges: Maintain Fluidity, Maintain Dignity of Each Student, No "Buzzards" Labels

<span style="background-color: #ff0000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Step 6 - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Obtain Materials to Deliver Instruction

__//Sample ways to differentiate content by student readiness...//__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Provide supplementary materials at varied reading levels.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Use small-group instruction to reteach students having difficulty.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Use small-group instruction for advanced students.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Demonstrate ideas or skills in addition to talking about them.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Provide audio materials.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Use video to supplement and support explanations and lectures.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Use reading partners to support understanding of text or supplementary materials.
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Provide organizers to guide note-taking.
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Provide key vocabulary lists for reference during note-taking.

__//**Follow Up Discussion**//__ Clarify any questions or concerns with today's discussion. The remainder of the time is for teachers to plan instruction and search out materials necessary to deliver differentiated instruction. If you would like to see "sample" lessons, there are several online examples that can be accessed by utilizing a google "video" search, searching on youtube.com, or searching on teachertube.com.

__//**Expectations (Weekly Discussion)**//__ Minimum Requirement = Four “Segments of Study” and Weekly Blog Participation. Participants will plan and implement differentiated instruction at least four times during the four weeks following each DI day of professional development. Participants will also be expected to participate weekly in a school blog. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">**The first question will be posted __next week__ along with directions for posting your input** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">. For those wishing to earn a renewal credit, 8 additional lessons will be required (as well as blogging) during the months of March and April – video taping/posting of the lessons will also be required.