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Free Differentiated Instruction (DI) Resources

Let’s face it. Many teacher are afraid of differentiated instruction. We may have tried DI once or twice, at the behest of a supervising teacher or evaluator, but found the preparation, class...

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Navigating Differentiated Instruction

Anyone with a good nav system knows its value in planning a family road trip. First, you enter your Destination. Establishing the end goal for the trip lets both driver and passengers in on the plan....

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10 Reasons Differentiated Instruction Died

At the height of the free-wheeling differentiated instruction movement, I and a number of educators interested in teaching to individual student needs tried with only minimal success to co-opt the...

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Assessment-Based Instruction

As a reading specialist teaching seventh grade English-language arts and reading intervention classes at a lower-performing urban middle school, I start off the school year administering reading,...

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8 Keys to Classroom Management with Assessment-Based Instruction

Most ELA and reading teachers are certainly willing to experiment with both classroom management and instructional delivery models. A few colleagues are “stuck in the mud,” but most will try something...

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Using Student Data to Inform Instruction

In my last article, Assessment-Based Instruction, I discussed the importance of whole class diagnostic assessments for ELA and reading intervention teachers. I also provided a link to free diagnostic...

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How to Individualize Instruction

Chances are that you are the type of ELA or reading teacher who wants to get better at what you do. Good teachers refine their units and lesson plans to provide quality direct instruction to the whole...

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Teaching the Class and Individuals

Perhaps the greatest guilt-inducers for any veteran teacher are these two questions: 1. Do you know the individual needs of your students? 2. Are you teaching to the individual needs of your students?...

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Assessment-based Individualized Learning

Assessment-based Individualize Learning Every educational movement needs a catchy new acronym. ABIL will have to do for mine: Assessment-based Individualized Learning. Simply put, it’s the supplemental...

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Standards Based Grading Rehab

Individualized Learning We’ve all heard the figure of speech: “They can’t see the forest for the trees.” We teachers tend to have the opposite issue: “We can’t see the trees for the forest.” Teachers...

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