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1. 7 Key Principles DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION:

2. 1. Develop a Community Respectful of Diversity All student want to contribute, be respected, and cared about. Your classroom will provide fertile ground for helping students learn how to value differences, appreciate commonalities, and come to deeper understanding of such complex issues as fairness, cooperation, equity, and justice.

3. 2. Create a “Working-With” Environment Creating a “working-with” environment means that teachers and students share decisions about instructional activities, routines, ways in which students might work together, and how students can demonstrate learning. Teachers who create “working-with” learning environments encourage students to build responsibility for monitoring their work, habits, self-assessing their quality of work, and helping make decisions about how the classroom is functioning.

4. 3. Ensure that All Students Have Access to Curriculum In fair and equitable inclusive classroom, the general curriculum must be accessible to all students. As teachers plan how to ensure accessibility to curricular content, they should consider a variety of options for differentiation, in the depth and breath of content and in how each students best acquires the content.

5. 4. Expand Your Instruction Repertoire Teachers should continually expand their instructional repertoire to better meet the diverse needs of students. Start with just a few of your favorite strategies and push yourself to incorporate greater differentiation within those strategies. Don’t forget to use your students as resources; they can share responsibility in suggesting various routes to a common destination.

6. 5. Assess Throughout Your Instruction Assessment and differentiation are integrally linked. Formative assessment, done at the beginning of instruction, informs you about the range of “starting points” for each students. Summative assessment, done at the end of instruction, provides feedback about how well students have mastered learning outcomes. In the spirit of differentiation, summative assessment should also allow for individual differences and strengths. Be creative, think inclusively, and ask students how they can best demonstrate what they have learned.

7. 6. Teach Students How to be Effective Learners In differentiated classrooms, students are active participants in the learning process. Student responsibilities include demonstrating such skills as making effective choices, organizing learning materials, following directions, completing tasks, and working cooperatively. When teachers provide many guided opportunities for students to build competence and confidence, students develop the skills they need to be productive and responsible.

8. 7. Develop a System of Organization and Management Reaching and teaching all of your students can feel like an overwhelming task. Developing some simple routines for organizing and managing your differentiated classroom will make everything go much smoother and clear a path for more effective learning.

9. Differentiation of Learning and Instruction Based on Students Traits and Classroom Elements