Inspiring Differentiation Videos

Inspiring Differentiation: Prekindergarten and Elementary School

This video explores five key characteristics of differentiated classrooms.

• An environment that supports learning: Highlighting the attitudes and practices of teachers who create engaging, challenging, and joyful learning environments.
• High quality curriculum that focuses on understanding: Featuring a differentiated kindergarten math lesson designed to move every student toward the same long-term learning goals.
• Ongoing assessment to inform instruction: Introducing an innovative way to integrate formative assessment into math instruction so that assessment becomes part of the lesson.
• Instruction that responds to student differences: Demonstrating the use of heterogeneous centers in a first-grade reading lesson to accommodate a wide variety of readiness levels.
• Leadership and flexible classroom management: Proving that as early as pre-school, children can adapt to routines, benefit from student choice, and learn from one another.

Inspiring Differentiation: Secondary School

This video presents an in-depth look at five innovative instructional strategies for effective differentiation.

• Writing Workshop: Co-teachers demonstrate the effective integration of student choice and peer-to-peer review—using the PQP (Praise, Question, Polish) system—in a 7th grade differentiated language arts classroom.
• Flipped Classroom: A seasoned middle school teacher shows how he uses a flipped classroom to promote self-paced learning in an accelerated math class.
• Global Studies: In a bilingual 7th grade classroom, a global studies teacher differentiates by identifying varying entry points to help students make sense of the Rohingya refugee crisis.
• One Book, Two Approaches: Two differentiated middle school classes study the same work of literature in markedly different ways. One teacher uses student-led literature circles to promote understanding of the text; the other uses art.

Inspiring Differentiation: High School

Information about this title is coming soon.