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Updated with new research and insights, the second edition of this
foundational guide to the how of differentiation provides the
thoughtful strategies teachers need to create and maintain
classrooms where each student is recognized and respected and every
student thrives. One of the most powerful lessons a teacher must
learn is that classroom management is not about control; it's about
delivering the support and facilitating the routines that will make
the classroom work for each student, and thus, set all students
free to be successful learners. In Leading and Managing a
Differentiated Classroom, Carol Ann Tomlinson and Marcia B. Imbeau
explore the central priorities and mindsets of differentiation and
provide practical guidelines for making effective student-centered,
academically responsive instruction a reality. Their classroom
management approach is based on three critical understandings: 1.
When students are engaged, they have no motivation to misbehave. 2.
When students understand that their teacher sees them as worthwhile
people with significant potential, it opens doors to learning. 3.
The classroom can't work for anybody until it works for everybody.
Written for K-12 teachers and instructional leaders, this book is
packed with strategies for structuring and pacing lessons,
organizing learning spaces and materials, starting and stopping
class with purpose, setting up and managing routines, and shifting
gears if something isn't going well. It also gives teachers the
guidance they need to help students, colleagues, and parents
understand the goals of differentiated instruction and contribute
to its success. Along with examples of recommended practice drawn
from real-life classrooms at a variety of grade levels, you will
find answers to frequently asked questions and specific advice for
balancing content requirements and the needs of learners. You'll
gain confidence as a leader for and in your differentiated
classroom and be better prepared to teach in a way that's more
efficient and rewarding for you and more effective for every
student in your care.
"Learner-centered classrooms rely on teachers who are willing to
change and grow, and on school leaders who are willing to
intelligently support them. Change is never easy, but teaching has
never been easy, either. Its goal is too grand for ease."Carol Ann
Tomlinson's role in defining and popularizing differentiated
instruction has made her one of the most influential voices in
modern education. In So Each May Soar, she illuminates the next
step forward: creating learner-centered classrooms to help all
students gain a deeper understanding of themselves, others, and the
world. Join Tomlinson as she explores principles and practices of
learner-centered classrooms, including * What it means for teachers
to honor themselves, each learner, and the content they teach. *
How to assemble a curriculum that ignites students' imaginations
and drives discovery. * How to guide classroom experiences that
develop the mind of each learner in accordance with that learner's
marvelous individuality. * How to shape curriculum, assessment, and
instruction to support both equity and excellence. Use this book's
curated collection of strategies to reconnect with professional and
personal aspirations, build an energized and mutually respectful
classroom community, and deliver instruction that feels alive to
you and your students. Examples from all kinds of learner-centered
classrooms clarify what this approach looks like across grade
levels and subject areas and confirm its viability in schools with
budgets both big and small. A must-have touchstone for veterans, a
beacon for middle-career educators, and a mission statement for
those just beginning their careers, So Each May Soar celebrates the
commitment of teachers and the opportunity they have to help each
young person in their care build a better future and lead a
wonderful life.
We differentiate instruction to honor the reality of the students
we teach. They are energetic and outgoing. They are quiet and
curious. They are confident and self-doubting. They are interested
in a thousand things and deeply immersed in a particular topic.
They are academically advanced and ""kids in the middle"" and
struggling due to cognitive, emotional, economic, or sociological
challenges. More of them than ever speak a different language at
home. They learn at different rates and in different ways. And they
all come together in our academically diverse classrooms. Written
as a practical guide for teachers, this expanded third edition of
Carol Ann Tomlinson's groundbreaking work covers the fundamentals
of differentiation and provides additional guidelines and new
strategies for how to go about it. You'll learn: What
differentiation is and why it's essential. How to set up the
flexible and supportive learning environment that promotes success.
How to manage a differentiated classroom. How to plan lessons
differentiated by readiness, interest, and learning profile. How to
differentiate content, process, and products. How to prepare
students, parents, and yourself for the challenge of
differentiation. First published in 1995 as How to Differentiate
Instruction in Mixed-Ability Classrooms, this new edition reflects
evolving best practices in education, the experiences of
practitioners throughout the United States and around the world,
and Tomlinson's continuing thinking about how to help each and
every student access challenging, high-quality curriculum; engage
in meaning-rich learning experiences; and feel at home in a school
environment that ""fits.
Although much has changed in schools in recent years, the power of
differentiated instruction remains the same-and the need for it has
only increased. Today's classroom is more diverse, more inclusive,
and more plugged into technology than ever before. And it's led by
teachers under enormous pressure to help decidedly unstandardized
students meet an expanding set of rigorous, standardized learning
targets. In this updated second edition of her best-selling classic
work, Carol Ann Tomlinson offers these teachers a powerful and
practical way to meet a challenge that is both very modern and
completely timeless: how to divide their time, resources, and
efforts to effectively instruct so many students of various
backgrounds, readiness and skill levels, and interests. With a
perspective informed by advances in research and deepened by more
than 15 years of implementation feedback in all types of schools,
Tomlinson explains the theoretical basis of differentiated
instruction, explores the variables of curriculum and learning
environment, shares dozens of instructional strategies, and then
goes inside elementary and secondary classrooms in nearly all
subject areas to illustrate how real teachers are applying
differentiation principles and strategies to respond to the needs
of all learners. This book's insightful guidance on what to
differentiate, how to differentiate, and why lays the groundwork
for bringing differentiated instruction into your own classroom or
refining the work you already do to help each of your wonderfully
unique learners move toward greater knowledge, more advanced
skills, and expanded understanding. Today more than ever, The
Differentiated Classroom is a must-have staple for every teacher's
shelf and every school's professional development collection.
Carol Ann Tomlinson and Tonya R. Moon take an in-depth look at
assessment and show how differentiation can improve the process in
all grade levels and subject areas. After discussing
differentiation in general, the authors focus on how
differentiation applies to various forms of
assessment-pre-assessment, formative assessment, and summative
assessment-and to grading and report cards. Readers learn how
differentiation can: Capture student interest and increase
motivation. Clarify teachers' understanding about what is most
important to teach. Enhance students' and teachers' belief in
student learning capacity. Help teachers understand their students'
individual similarities and differences so they can reach more
students, more effectively. Throughout, Tomlinson and Moon
emphasize the importance of maintaining a consistent focus on the
essential knowledge, understandings, and skills that all students
must acquire, no matter what their starting point. Detailed
scenarios illustrate how assessment differentiation can occur in
three realms (student readiness, interest, and learning style or
preference) and how it can improve assessment validity and
reliability and decrease errors and teacher bias. Grounded in
research and the authors' teaching experience, Assessment and
Student Success in a Differentiated Classroom outlines a
common-sense approach that is both thoughtful and practical, and
that empowers teachers and students to discover, strive for, and
achieve their true potential.
To differentiate instruction is to act on the belief that all kids
deserve access to the richest, most compelling learning experiences
and to provide the scaffolding they need to seize that opportunity.
While a handful of teachers in a school might be using
differentiation to great success, it takes a collaborative,
schoolwide approach to maximize differentiation's effectiveness and
improve outcomes for all students. Leading for Differentiation lays
out the reflective thinking and action-oriented steps necessary to
launch a system of continuous professional learning, culture
building, and program assessment that will allow differentiation to
flourish in every classroom. Incorporating their own experienced
insights, real-world examples, and practical tools, world-renowned
differentiated instruction expert Carol Ann Tomlinson and change
leadership authority Michael Murphy explore: Why a move to
schoolwide differentiation makes so much sense for today's students
and today's standards- and accountability-focused climate. How to
transform a vision for schoolwide differentiation into manageable,
year-by-year plans to achieve it. How to incorporate the principles
of differentiation, motivation, and adult learning into respectful,
responsive, and truly effective professional learning throughout
all stages of the change initiative. How to foster and recognize
growth in teachers' differentiation practices, and how to chart the
impact differentiation is having on student learning. How to
recognize, understand, and respond to resistance-in both its
predictable forms and surprising ones. What schoolwide
differentiation looks like when it's fully established, and how to
tend to it for long-term success. Leading the change to a
differentiated school means creating an environment in which each
individual feels valued, challenged, supported, and part of a team
working together for success. In this book, school leaders will
learn how to set the course for positive change and create the
structural supports that will help teachers grow as differentiators
so that their students will thrive as learners.
Today's teachers are responsible for a greater variety of learners
with a greater diversity of needs than ever before. When you add in
the ever-changing dynamics of technology and current events, the
complexity of both students' and teachers' lives grows
exponentially. Far too few teachers, however, successfully teach
the whole class with the individual student in mind. In Leading and
Managing a Differentiated Classroom, Carol Ann Tomlinson and Marcia
B. Imbeau tackle the issue of how to address student differences
thoughtfully and proactively. The first half of the book focuses on
what it means for a teacher to effectively lead a differentiated
classroom. Readers will learn how to be more confident and
effective leaders for and in student-focused and responsive
classrooms. The second half of the book focuses on the mechanics of
managing a differentiated classroom. A teacher who has the best
intentions, a dynamic curriculum, and plans for differentiation
cannot-and will not-move forward unless he or she is at ease with
translating those ideas into classroom practice. In other words,
teachers who are uncomfortable with flexible classroom management
will not differentiate instruction, even if they understand it,
accept the need for it, and can plan for it. Tomlinson and Imbeau
argue that the inherent interdependence of leading and managing a
differentiated classroom is at the very heart of 21st-century
education. This essential guide to differentiation also includes a
helpful teacher's toolkit of activities and teaching strategies
that will help any teacher expand his or her capacity to make room
for and work tirelessly on behalf of every student.
Teachers struggle every day to bring quality instruction to their
students. Beset by lists of content standards and accompanying
""high-stakes"" accountability tests, many educators sense that
both teaching and learning have been redirected in ways that are
potentially impoverishing for those who teach and those who learn.
Educators need a model that acknowledges the centrality of
standards but also ensures that students truly understand content
and can apply it in meaningful ways. For many educators,
Understanding by Design addresses that need. Simultaneously,
teachers find it increasingly difficult to ignore the diversity of
the learners who populate their classrooms. Few teachers find their
work effective or satisfying when they simply ""serve up"" a
curriculum-even an elegant one-to students with no regard for their
varied learning needs. For many educators, Differentiated
Instruction offers a framework for addressing learner variance as a
critical component of instructional planning. In this book the two
models converge, providing readers fresh perspectives on two of the
greatest contemporary challenges for educators: crafting powerful
curriculum in a standards-dominated era and ensuring academic
success for the full spectrum of learners. Each model strengthens
the other. Understanding by Design is predominantly a curriculum
design model that focuses on what we teach. Differentiated
Instruction focuses on whom we teach, where we teach, and how we
teach. Carol Ann Tomlinson and Jay McTighe show you how to use the
principles of backward design and differentiation together to craft
lesson plans that will teach essential knowledge and skills for the
full spectrum of learners. Connecting content and kids in
meaningful ways is what teachers strive to do every day. In tandem,
UbD and DI help educators meet that goal by providing structures,
tools, and guidance for developing curriculum and instruction that
bring to students the best of what we know about effective teaching
and learning.
'The Parallel Curriculum Model helps teachers not only strengthen
their knowledge and pedagogy, but also rediscover a passion for
their discipline based on their deeper, more connected
understanding. Our students think critically and deeply at a level
I have never before witnessed.'uTony Poole, PrincipalSky Vista
Middle School, Aurora, CO'What makes this book unique is its
insistence on the development of conceptual understanding of
content and its focus on the abilities, interests, and learning
preferences of each student.'uH. Lynn Erickson, Educational
ConsultantAuthor of Stirring the Head, Heart, and Soul'The approach
honors the integrity of the disciplines while remaining responsive
to the diversity of learners that teachers encounter.'uJay McTighe,
Educational ConsultantCoauthor of Understanding by DesignEngage
students with a rich curriculum that strengthens their capacity as
learners and thinkers!Based on the premise that every learner is
somewhere on a path toward expertise in a content area, this
resource promotes a curriculum model for developing the abilities
of all students and extending the abilities of students who perform
at advanced levels. The Parallel Curriculum Model (PCM) offers four
curriculum parallels that incorporate the element of Ascending
Intellectual Demand to help teachers determine current student
performance levels and develop intellectual challenges to move
learners along a continuum toward expertise. Updated throughout and
reflecting state and national content standards, this new
edition:Helps teachers design learning experiences that develop
PreKu12 learners' analytical, critical, and creative thinking
skills in each subject areaProvides a framework for planning
differentiated curriculumIncludes examples of curriculum units,
sample rubrics, and tables to help implement the PCM modelThe
Parallel Curriculum effectively promotes educational equity and
excellence by ensuring that all students are adequately challenged
and supported through a multidimensional, high-quality curriculum.
Students are becoming more academically and culturally diverse,
making it more important than ever to shift away from a
one-size-fits-all approach and toward differentiated instruction.
The second edition of this best-selling book will help you create
truly effective, brain-friendly classrooms for all learners. The
authors share an array of updated differentiated instruction
examples, scenarios, and exercises, as well as the latest
educational psychology research from cognitive psychology,
neuroscience, and pedagogy. Learn more about teaching diverse
learners using brain-based learning strategies: Explore how the
brain learns and approaches to differentiated instruction. Sharpen
your knowledge of developmental cognitive neuroscience and
educational psychology to teach the best content in the best
possible way. Use the knowledge of educational neuroscience
(neuroeducation) to benefit the students you teach. Design and
implement strategies for effective differentiated instruction.
Create a positive and productive learning environment that supports
diversity in the classroom. A joint publication of ASCD and
Solution Tree Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: The Nonnegotiables
of Effective Differentiation Chapter 2: Mindset, Learning
Environment, and Differentiation Chapter 3: Curriculum and
Differentiation Chapter 4: Classroom Assessment and Differentiation
Chapter 5: Differentiating in Response to Student Readiness Chapter
6: Differentiating in Response to Student Interest Chapter 7:
Differentiating in Response to Student Learning Profile Chapter 8:
Managing a Differentiated Classroom References and Resources Index
Most people are keenly aware that every student is different and
that today's classrooms challenge educators to build safe and
successful learning communities comprising students whose races,
languages, cultures, experiences, assets, and dreams vary greatly.
This book offers K-12 teachers both the foundations for
differentiating their instruction and the means to maximize
learning opportunities by getting to know students beyond the
labels and stereotypes that often accompany them into the
classroom. Tomlinson shows how to use "Highways and Exit ramps" to
reach the whole class, with "highway" content and "exit ramps" to
specialize needs. Chapters offer numerous recommendations for
modifying environments, activities, and assessments; for helping
teachers move forward in their instructional planning; and for
helping each learner grow academically. Everybody's Classroom
extends Tomlinson's previous work by looking more deeply at
specific student populations to help educators create classrooms
that are more inclusive than ever before. Chapters cover successful
differentiation for English learners; students experiencing
poverty; students with different ethnic, cultural, religious, and
gender orientations; and students with diverse identified special
needs. Book Features: Provides a framework for understanding the
scope of differentiation, as opposed to seeing it as a prescribed
set of instructional strategies. Shows how to recognize common
student needs that cut across student labels, from gifted to
traumatized. Offers suggestions for teacher actions based on
observation of students and student work. Classroom examples and
helpful tables, charts, and graphics.
The Parallel Curriculum Model in the Classroom, Book 2 contains a
series of essays designed to further develop key ideas from the
original book, including model guidelines, applications, and
experiences from high quality educators that have utilized the
Parallel Curriculum Model. The book presents curriculum units that
were developed by using the PCM. The units included in the book
represent primary, elementary, middle and high school. Disciplines
include social studies, science, art, and language arts.
Using actual classroom footage, this video companion to The
Parallel Curriculum is an excellent resource that shows examples of
how the model might look in a range of classrooms and subjects.
Carol Ann Tomlinson expertly guides staff developers and teachers
by discussing characteristics of the model, and its potential to
benefit a broad range of students - including advanced learners.
The Parallel Curriculum Model in the Classroom, Book 2 contains a
series of essays designed to further develop key ideas from the
original book, including model guidelines, applications, and
experiences from high quality educators that have utilized the
Parallel Curriculum Model. The book presents curriculum units that
were developed by using the PCM. The units included in the book
represent primary, elementary, middle and high school. Disciplines
include social studies, science, art, and language arts.
Try going a week without hearing a call for a massive overhaul of
our educational system. Parents, students, educators, bureaucrats,
pundits . . . everyone says something must be done. But what? And
who should do it? In this environment, school leaders must build
bridges for change. As the system now stands, many students spend
great portions of their lives feeling inferior if they struggle,
invisible if they already know the material, problematic if they're
not a child of the dominant culture, and perverse if they question
the school agenda. This book explores how school leaders can
develop responsive, personalized, and differentiated classrooms.
Differentiation is simply a teacher attending to the learning needs
of a particular student or small group of students, rather than
teaching a class as though all individuals in it were basically
alike. Expert educators teach individuals the most important things
in the most effective ways. No single approach works with all
students. Classrooms function best when teachers and students join
to develop multiple avenues to learning. Until every student is
growing and successful, our own growth is unfinished. The authors
show how school leaders can encourage and support growth in our
classrooms.
The Common Core State Standards require all students to think in
complex and creative ways and apply classroom learning in new
contexts. Yet many teachers already struggle with reaching all
learners, who come to school with varied levels of readiness,
interests, and learning profiles. What to do now that the
expectations are even higher? Differentiated instruction experts
Carol Ann Tomlinson and Marcia B. Imbeau offer practical,
thoughtful advice on how to plan, deliver, and assess instruction
that meets this new level of challenge. Combining the goals of the
Common Core with the principles of differentiation, the authors
present an eight-step process to help teachers make rich,
intellectually rigorous curriculum accessible to a very broad range
of students. With examples across grade levels and content areas
and a checklist for reflection on the eight steps, this timely
publication will show you how to meet high expectations with
responsive instruction and help all your students grow as thinkers
and problem solvers.
When students in urban settings confront curriculum or pedagogy
that is not responsive to their diverse learning experiences, the
result is underachievement. Educators, parents, and teachers
recognize that meeting the needs of academic, cultural, economic
and linguistic diversity among learners occurs when their
individual diversity is met with a diverse curriculum.The Parallel
Curriculum Model (PCM) is designed to be responsive to different
populations in different contexts. PCM implementation in
heterogeneous classrooms assists students in demonstrating
abilities that are not visible when the traditional, or regular
rubric, is used. The authors provide lessons that show educators
how to reinforce basic content, connect previously and newly
acquired content to form new understandings, and affirm a student's
identity as a scholar. Using the Parallel Curriculum Model in Urban
Settings, Grades K-8 provides educators in urban settings with
detailed parallel curriculum lessons and strategies to enhance the
learning experience of diverse students.
'The Parallel Curriculum Model helps teachers not only strengthen
their knowledge and pedagogy, but also rediscover a passion for
their discipline based on their deeper, more connected
understanding. Our students think critically and deeply at a level
I have never before witnessed.'uTony Poole, PrincipalSky Vista
Middle School, Aurora, CO'What makes this book unique is its
insistence on the development of conceptual understanding of
content and its focus on the abilities, interests, and learning
preferences of each student.'uH. Lynn Erickson, Educational
ConsultantAuthor of Stirring the Head, Heart, and Soul'The approach
honors the integrity of the disciplines while remaining responsive
to the diversity of learners that teachers encounter.'uJay McTighe,
Educational ConsultantCoauthor of Understanding by DesignEngage
students with a rich curriculum that strengthens their capacity as
learners and thinkers!Based on the premise that every learner is
somewhere on a path toward expertise in a content area, this
resource promotes a curriculum model for developing the abilities
of all students and extending the abilities of students who perform
at advanced levels. The Parallel Curriculum Model (PCM) offers four
curriculum parallels that incorporate the element of Ascending
Intellectual Demand to help teachers determine current student
performance levels and develop intellectual challenges to move
learners along a continuum toward expertise. Updated throughout and
reflecting state and national content standards, this new
edition:Helps teachers design learning experiences that develop
PreKu12 learners' analytical, critical, and creative thinking
skills in each subject areaProvides a framework for planning
differentiated curriculumIncludes examples of curriculum units,
sample rubrics, and tables to help implement the PCM modelThe
Parallel Curriculum effectively promotes educational equity and
excellence by ensuring that all students are adequately challenged
and supported through a multidimensional, high-quality curriculum.
Using actual classroom footage, this video companion to The
Parallel Curriculum is an excellent resource that shows examples of
how the model might look in a range of classrooms and subjects.
Carol Ann Tomlinson expertly guides staff developers and teachers
by discussing characteristics of the model, and its potential to
benefit a broad range of students - including advanced learners.
Extend the benefits of differentiated teaching to virtually any
kind of school situation and student population using the
guidelines and strategies from this book. Carol Ann Tomlinson takes
you to the next level of differentiated curriculum and instruction
with new insights, including: Five student needs that are at the
heart of responsive teaching. Five teacher responses that engage
more students in learning and promote achievement. Six classroom
elements that lay the groundwork for a differentiated classroom.
Five characteristics of curriculum and instruction that genuinely
help all students learn. Detailed scenarios and activities make it
easier to develop new classroom routines and teaching practices
that reinforce differentiation. Plus, a toolbox of surveys,
checklists, and examples helps you implement differentiated
approaches in your classroom right away.
Focusing on the link between gifted education and general
education, the articles in this volume reveal the benefits of
differentiating curriculum and instruction, discuss impediments to
the successful adoption of differentiation in classrooms and school
districts, and show how educators can collaboratively overcome
these obstacles.
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