What skills and concepts are your students expected to learn?
What should students know or be able to do at the end of this lesson or unit?
What skills and concepts do students need as prerequisites to what they are expected to learn?
Where to Look:
Are all students expected to learn the same skills/concepts at the same level of difficulty/complexity?
Do you have assessment data or other information that can help identify the level at which each student is currently working?
Resources:
Curriculum Scope and Sequence
State coherence maps
Can students work in small groups with others at a similar skill level?
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Related Instructional Strategies:
Are there individual students whose skill level is significantly above or below the rest of the class?
Consider developing independent projects or assignments at an appropriately level of difficulty
Related Instructional Strategies:
How will the students show what skills and concepts they’ve learned ?
In what authentic, relevant ways will students show how to apply the skills and concepts they’ve learned?
Projects, demonstrations
Application in other classes and subjects
Resources:
Instructional Strategies:
Consider: Use rubrics …
To make project/assignment criteria and learning targets clear to students
To assess multiple skills within a single project
To monitor student growth and progress from one project to another
To individualize project requirements, as needed
What activities, lessons and assignments are included in the instructional plan?differentiation ?
Could a lesson be easily made more simple or more complex?
Resources:
Adapting Directions: Adapting the Complexity of the Assignment: Consider: Not every lesson can be (or should be) differentiated. There are times when whole group instruction is more effective or simply more manageable.
What learning materials will be used (ie. textbooks, manipulatives, tools, etc.)?Would any of these be logical choices for differentiation ?
Are there reading materials being used?
Instructional Strategies:
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