Differentiation for Real Classrooms Making It Simple, Making It Work [Paperback]

With illustrations, vignettes, sample lessons, and adaptations for ESL and students with special needs, this book offers dozens of practical strategies for differentiating lessons to reach all learners.With illustrations, vignettes, sample lessons, and adaptations for ESL and students with special needs, this book offers dozens of practical strategies for differentiating lessons to reach all learners. Full of good ideas and strategies for differentiation. I like the way the authors emphasize the idea of teaching to a specific benchmark or objective rather than letting the text determine what students do and learn. In my extensive experience with differentiated education, I have not seen a work on lesson planning that is as compact, concise, and creative as this one. I was relieved to read this book. My faith in our ability to refocus on what good teaching requires is renewed. I will keep this book close as I plan and execute my lessons. The sample lesson plans are great! Teachers need a guide to assist them in making sure they are differentiating instruction correctly.Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1. Know the Target, Teach for Meaning (C U KAN)
2. Know Your Learners, Reach for Connection
3. Know the Pathways, Chunk, Chew, and Check
4. Chunk or Input
5. Chew or Process
6. Check or Output
7. Pulling It All Together
Resources
References
Index