Doable Differentiation (ePub)

Differentiating for students' learning preferences can often seem too complex and complicated for too little gain. Learn a better way forward with the guidance of Doable Differentiation. Author Jane A. G. Kise provides a series of straightforward, high-reward strategies that K-12 educators like you successfully use in their daily practice to support, engage, and challenge students with diverse learning styles.

• Understand the benefits of differentiation and how to implement differentiated instruction simply and effectively.


• Learn students' preferred cognitive processing styles to better tailor differentiated lesson plans for all learners' needs.


• Discover 12 categories of research-based differentiation strategies to implement immediately.


• Provide students with a variety of accessible options for processing information, engaging in higher-level thinking, and demonstrating learning.


• Engage learners and develop their proficiency and self-efficacy.

Contents:

Introduction: What Makes Differentiation Doable?

Part 1: The Foundation

Chapter 1: Cognitive Processes and Effective Differentiation

Chapter 2: Clear Learning Goals and Expectations

Part 2: The Strategies

Chapter 3: Choice

Chapter 4: Wait Time

Chapter 5: Unambiguous Instruction

Chapter 6: Pressure-Prompted Accommodations

Chapter 7: Student-Centered Discussions

Chapter 8: Curiosity Creators

Chapter 9: Open Questions

Chapter 10: Concept Maps

Chapter 11: Big Notes

Chapter 12: Moveable Organizers

Chapter 13: Planned Movement

Chapter 14: Talking to Write

Part 3: Lesson Planning

Chapter 15: Two-Step Differentiation

Epilogue

References and Resources

Index