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Differentiation Planning Tool

Unit/ Lesson Planning Considerations

Which concepts, ideas, or questions provide a focus and frame

Using Assessment Data to Differentiate

for the unit or lesson? How can they be made meaningful for all students?

• Identify the learner’s knowledge base and ability in relation to the upcoming skill, concept or topic. Use the results to

• Know: Facts, Vocabulary

diagnose specific learner needs.

• Understand: Concepts, “Big Ideas” Principles, Generalizations

• Consider administering an interest or learning style inventory. Use this data to group for Learner Profile or Interest.

• Do- Skills:

• Maintain a variety of formal and informal assessment tools, to gather data.

• Basic Skills (i.e. read non-fiction text)

• Modify assessment format and delivery for special populations.

• Thinking Skills (analyze, solve, compare/contrast, discriminate fact/fiction)

• Use formative assessment data to frequently adjust groups to skill level -“invisible grouping”

• Skills of the Discipline (how to think like a scientist, mathematician, writer)

• Planning (student goal setting and use of time)

• Social (cooperation and sharing)

Process: How students learn/ are taught/ and interact.

Content: What students are expected to study/ know/ and are expected to learn.

-provide varying levels of sophistication, complexity, or difficulty of tasks

varying content expectations and learning targets

-varying teaching methods and learning activities in response to learner readiness (ZPD) at least some of time

-varying materials used

-varying grouping structures for learning and social interaction

-how to unify content expectations and targets of different levels

• Note-taking Organizers

• Pre-teach concepts

• Turn and talk

• Feedback

• Varied levels of texts

• Change cognitive demand

• Table teams- team tasks

• Classroom Discourse

• Various supplementary materials

• Chunking information

• Graphic organizers

• Choices of text, tasks, and partner(s)

• Adjusting proximity of ideas to student

• Curriculum compacting

• Discussion cards

• Interest Centers/Zones/Workstations

experience(s)

• Visual aids

• Tiered questions

• Tiered lessons and activities

• Utilize Learning Progressions (CCSS)

• Realia/ Artifacts

• Questioning Sequences (Marzano)

• Learning contracts: personal agendas

• Technology

• Text rendering tools

• Hands-on activities/manipulatives

• Audio Books / lessons

• Modeling

• Varied time to complete tasks

• Graphic Organizers

• Formative assessment

• Think-Pair-Share

• Choral Reading

• Reading Partners / Reading Buddies

Product: What students produce and how they demonstrate learning.

Environment/Affect: Use of physical space and classroom culture

varying the sophistication, complexity or difficulty of tasks

-physical arrangement is in service of learning

-varying the level of structure, scaffolding (task supports), or independence

-offering resources and scaffolds to support learning

-varying nature of product to match interests, favored intelligence, or learning style

-fostering a classroom that is a learning community; risk taking is encouraged, “growth mindset is

-identifying common criteria and expectations

present”

• Product Guides- Instructions

• Tiered assignments

-access for all students

• Rubrics and criterion charts

• Modified assignments

• Grouping strategies

• Visual resources

• Examples of product options may include

• Anchor activities

• Workshop model

-math charts

the following:

-raft

• Team tasks

-vocabulary and key terms

• Create a model, poster, game,

-think dots/ cubing

• Re-teach stations

-pictures/ realia

advertisement, map, survey, puzzle,

-choice boards

• Adult-led group

-process grids/ posters

• Technology for teaching and learning

cartoon, brochure, dance, habitat, or

-learning menus

• Project Based Learning

• Small groups to reteach or extend

illustration.

• Write a diary entry, speech, recipe,

• Choice based on readiness, interest, and

poem, letter, news report, essay, or

learning profiles

• Clear expectations

song.

• Collect pictures, create a timeline or

• Extended Timelines

Revised: 6-1-15

• Independent Learning Contracts

calendar, make a recording or video

HC= This annotates specific strategies

• Assessments

invite a speaker, teach a lesson, or

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