A few years ago, I did a series of inservice workshops for a group of new teachers. We spent a lot of time talking about effective lesson planning, differentiation and using data to guide classroom instruction.
I worked on creating some sort of diagram or process that they could use when they planned lessons to walk through the many different ways that instruction can be differentiated: by the content taught, the assessment used, the activities, the materials, and/or by students’ level of academic readiness, by their interest and by their preferred learning styles.
I’ve played around with the diagram several times over the years, and last night I posted the latest version, my favorite so far.
The diagram with live links is here: http://www.fortheteachers.org/differentiation_framework.htm
A printable version is also available.
I’d love to hear what you think!
I have never seen anything like this, it is amazing! Thank you so much for developing and sharing this template. A few years ago, someone shared a similar flowchart model with me on developing receptive skills in esl and this reminded me so much of it.
I downloaded this template and it will take me some time to study. I am using this to help me develop some learning contracts for students. Thanks for your work and sharing this!