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• “Teachers can differentiate four elements of instruction: content, process, product, and learning environment.”
  • Content: What is taught
  • Process: How it’s taught
  • Product: What is produced and can be evaluated
  • Learning Environment: Where and Who
    (Individual, Group, Student/Partner, Teacher/Student; Teacher/Class)
• “Instruction can be differentiated based on student traits, such as readiness, learning profile, interest, and affect.”(See traits immediately below.)

Student Differences that are Accommodated by Differentiated Instruction
Consider the traits below in creating, modifying and varying lesson plans

Interests Academic Skills Sets Language Proficiencies Organization Skills Learning Styles, Profiles (Audio, Visual, Kinesthetic/Tactile)

Personality Social/Emotional Development Intelligences Learning Difficulties Attention Spans Motivation levels

 (found on http://setconnections.org/differentiated_instruction.html)

THINGS TO REMEMBER ABOUT 

DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION:

"NO two children are alike.  An enriched environment for one is not necessarily enriched for another." -Marian Diamonds: Professor of Neuroanatomy at Berkeley

"Three principles from brain research: emotional safety, appropriate challenges, and self constructed meaning suggest that a one-size-fits-all approach to classroom instruction teaching is ineffective for most students and harmful to some." -Teach Me Teach My Brian

"If you always do what you did, You always get what you got." --Marian Diamonds: Professor of Neuroanatomy at Berkeley

JUST REMEMBER... all of your students are going to be different.  Get to Know your students, and get to know how they learn, and what their interests are.  "Remember, if you always do what you did, your always going to get what you got."

HERE ARE SOME HELPFUL IDEAS: