Using Differentiated Instruction to Meet the Needs of All Learners

9. http://www.cast.org CAST © 2003 Task is too difficult for learner ZONE OF PROXIMAL DEVELOPMENT Task is too easy for learner

12. http://www.ericdigests.org/2001-2/elementary.html Element Explanation Examples CONTENT What what the student needs to learn or how the student will get access to the information Reading materials on different levels, presenting material visually and auditory, meeting with small groups to reteach PROCESS How activities in which the student engages in order to make sense of or master the content Tiered assignments: different levels of support, challenge, or complexity, interest centers, manipulatives hands on materials, PRODUCT Evaluation culminating projects that ask the student to rehearse, apply, and extend what he or she has learned in a unit options of how to express required learning, allowing students to work alone or in small groups on their products, create their own product assignments LEARNING ENVIRONMENT the way the classroom works and feels. Places for quiet work, places to collaborate, routines when teacher is providing one on one help

13. Challenged Average Gifted CONTENT What Three crucial points All aspects of the topic In-depth study PROCESS How Direct instruction of each step in the research process Modeling Independent work Review and practice Minimal instruction with probing questions for independent study PRODUCT Evaluation Group paper of one page Five page paper Powerpoint presentation with computer generated graphics and tables

20. Notes from: Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning