Upgrading Differentiation in the Elementary Grades

with Jessica Hockett

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Summary

Differentiation is not new or the latest education fad; it has long been the natural and intuitive response of many elementary teachers. At the same time, all teachers have room to "upgrade" their approach to planning for and meeting student needs.

Join Jessica Hockett, consultant and coauthor of Differentiation in the Elementary Grades: Strategies to Engage and Equip All Learners to explore five commonly adopted practices in elementary classrooms that can impede or prevent true differentiation. In this informative webinar, attendees will gain insights about each of these practices and learn principles and strategies for "upgrading" to more sophisticated applications of differentiation. This session will integrate concrete examples that are applicable to K–5 settings.

Recorded December 7, 2017

Community of Excellence: Teaching and Learning

About the Presenter

Jessica A. Hockett has been a full-time education consultant for 12 years, specializing in interactive and differentiated instruction, standards-aligned curriculum and performance task design, classroom grouping practices, and program evaluation. Her work with numerous schools, districts, departments, and organizations has supported a wide range of initiatives centered on improving teacher and student learning. She is the coauthor (with Kristina Doubet) of Differentiation in Middle and High School: Strategies to Engage All Learners and (with Chester E. Finn Jr.) of Exam Schools: Inside America's Most Selective Public High Schools, a big-picture look at a high-performing but understudied niche of U.S. education.  Read more