Inspiring Differentiation: High-Quality Curriculum to Build Understanding
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This video addresses the crucial need for curriculum that focuses on student understanding and that fosters durable learning, which involves content that is inviting, memorable, useful, and scaffolded. The teacher in this video creates differentiated learning activities in order to help every student make sense of the content.
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How to Differentiate Instruction in Academically Diverse Classrooms, 3rd Edition
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.
