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Differentiating Instruction
By: Jacqueline S. Thousand, Richard A. Villa, Ann I. Nevin
This updated best-seller features two customizable approaches to differentiating instruction, a discussion of collaborative planning and implementation, new technology resources, and links to the Common Core and RTI.
- Grade Level: PreK-12
- ISBN: 9781483344454
- Published By: Corwin
- Year: 2014
- Page Count: 360
- Publication date: December 05, 2014
Price: $43.95
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Description
The ultimate guide to leaving no child behind—newly updated!
Now in its second edition, this best-selling book is your one-stop resource for differentiated instruction. Whether you’re new to the concept or just looking to improve your approach, you’ll find tools to meet the needs of all your students—in a way that works for you. You’ll discover how innovative approaches, such as Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and retrofitting, can help you adapt general education curriculum to fit diverse learning styles.
Featuring case studies at the elementary, middle, and high school levels, this new edition offers
- More easy-to-use strategies to differentiate instruction in mixed ability classrooms
- A new chapter on collaborative planning and evaluation, plus a discussion of co-teaching and differentiation
- Updated lesson plans tied to the Common Core
- A greater emphasis on cultural proficiency, ELLs, and gifted students
- New technology references and resources
- A strengthened link to RTI
Every student is different—and every classroom is different, too. With multiple options to differentiate instruction at any point along the way, this essential guide will help you create the path to success for every student.
"Thousand, Villa, and Nevin take three very big ideas in education—Universal Design, Collaboration, and Differentiated Instruction—and combine them in a novel and engaging way. And they practice what they preach – the information and examples speak to someone just beginning to differentiate instruction as well as the expert who wants to further refine his or her craft."
—Douglas Fisher, Professor
San Diego State University
"The extensive emphasis on technology, case studies, and lesson plans throughout the book provide a rich resource to the readers of this exciting text. Administrators, university instructors, and staff developers will find this a valuable tool to support their students and colleagues on their differentiation journey.”
—Mary Falvey, Retired Dean and Professor Emeritus
California State University, Los Angeles
Key features
- Differentiation meets co-teaching—describes and compares the four approaches to co-teaching (supportive, parallel, complementary, and team teaching)
- Discusses “retrofitting” as well as the more ideal “universal design” approach to differentiating instruction
- Offers strategies for effectively addressing cultural, economic, and linguistic diversity
- Discusses numerous methods of determining individual learner needs and preferences
- Presents tips and processes allowing teachers to efficiently collaborate in planning for differentiated curriculum, instruction, and assessment
- Provides helpful profiles and vignettes
- Includes Frequently Asked Questions section, plus sample lesson planning forms
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- Detailed description of Retrofit and Universal Design for Learning strategies to differentiate instruction in mixed-ability classrooms
- A menu approach where multiple options for differentiation can be chosen at each design point (i.e., content and materials, products and assessments, processes of learning)
- Differentiated lesson plans and case studies at elementary, middle, and secondary levels
- Extensive emphasis on the role of technology throughout the book and in the lesson plans
- Discussion of the role of school leaders in providing support and leadership for differentiation
- Protocols to assist in the observation and coaching for differentiation
- Linkage to Response to Intervention (RTI) and Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS)
- Strategies for collaborative planning and teaching to accomplish the goals of differentiated instruction
Author(s)
Jacqueline S. Thousand
Jacqueline S. Thousand, Ph.D., is Professor Emerita at California State University San Marcos, where she designed and coordinated special education professional preparation and Master’s degree programs in the College of Education, Health, and Human Services. She previously taught at the University of Vermont, where she directed Inclusion Facilitator and Early Childhood Special Education graduate and postgraduate programs and coordinated federal grants, which, in the early 1980s, pioneered the inclusion of students with moderate and severe disabilities in general education classrooms of their local schools. Prior to university teacher, Dr. Thousand served as a special educator in Chicago area and Atlanta public schools and as the coordinator of early childhood special education services for children ages 3 through 6 in the Burlington, Vermont area. Dr. Thousand is a nationally known teacher, author, systems change consultant, and disability rights and inclusive education advocate. She is the author of 21 books and numerous research articles and chapters on issues related to inclusive education, organizational change strategies, differentiated instruction and universal design, co-teaching and collaborative teaming, cooperative group learning, creative problem solving, positive behavioral supports, and, now, culturally proficiency special education. Dr. Thousand is actively involved in international teacher education and inclusive education endeavors and serves on the editorial boards of several national and international journals.
Richard A. Villa
Richard A. Villa is president of Bayridge Consortium, Inc. His primary field of expertise is the development of administrative and instructional support systems for educating all students within general education settings. Villa is recognized as an educational leader who inspires and works collaboratively with others to implement current and emerging exemplary educational practices. His work has resulted in the inclusion of children with intensive cognitive, physical, and emotional challenges as full members of the general education community in the school districts where he has worked and consulted. Villa has been a classroom teacher, special education administrator, pupil personnel services director, and director of instructional services and has authored 4 books and over 70 articles and chapters. Known for his enthusiastic, humorous style, Villa has presented at international, national, and state educational conferences and has provided technical assistance to departments of education in the United States, Canada, Vietnam, and Honduras and to university personnel, public school systems, and parent and advocacy organizations.
Ann I. Nevin
Table of Contents
A Letter to Our Readers
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1. Why Differentiation of Instruction Now?
What Differentiated Instruction IS (and What It Is NOT)
Rationales for Differentiated Instruction
Rationale #1: To Meet Needs of Diverse Learners
Rationale #2: To Meet Legal Mandates
Rationale #3: To Be Ethical in Implementing Democratic Values
Rationale #4: To Dispel Myths About Students
Rationale #5: To Be Effective Teachers
Retrofit and Universal Design: Two Approaches to Differentiated Instruction
Systemic Support for Differentiated Instruction
Overview of the Book
2. Accessing the General Education Curriculum Through a Retrofit Framework
What Is the Retrofit Approach?
Scenario #1: Elementary Science and Social Studies
Scenario #2: Middle Level Mathematics
Scenario #3: Middle Level Science
Scenario #4: High School Language Arts
What Do You Know About Retrofitting as a Way to Differentiate Instruction?
3. Access to Curriculum Through Universal Design for Learning
The UDL Cycle for Differentiating Content, Product, and Process
Design Point #1: Gathering Facts About the Learners
Design Point #2: Differentiate Content and Materials
Design Point #3: Product or Differentiate How Students Show What They Know
Design Point #4: Differentiate Instructional Processes
Pause and Reflect About Student-Specific Teaching Strategies and Supports
Putting It All Together With the Universal Design Lesson Plan
4. Gathering Facts About the Learners
Record Review
Family-Centered and Culturally Responsive Fact Gathering
Interest Inventories
Learning Preferences Information
Learning and Thinking Styles
Multiple Intelligences
Data-Based Observations Including Functional Behavioral Assessments and Cooperative Group Monitoring
Data-Based Observations
Functional Behavioral Assessment
Monitoring Cooperative Group Learning
Curriculum-Based Assessments
Making Action Plans (MAPs)
Disability-Specific Information
Co-Teacher Roles in Gathering Facts About the Learners
Pause and Reflect
5. Differentiating Access to the Content of Learning
What Is Content?
Ways to Promote Access to Content
Taxonomies and Objectives: Using and Not Abusing Them
Layered Curriculum and Levels of Participation
Differentiating Content Using Graphic Organizers and Educational Technology
Differentiating Content With Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Techniques
Involving Students in Determining Content
Co-Teacher Roles in Differentiating Content
Pause and Reflect
6. Differentiating and Assessing the Products of Learning
Why Differentiate Assessment in a Climate of High-Stakes Testing?
Using Culturally Responsive Techniques to Differentiate and Assess the Products of Learning
Taxonomy and Learning Preferences Frameworks to Differentiate Products and Assessment
Using Bloom’s Taxonomy to Differentiate Products and Assessment
Using Learning Preferences Frameworks to Differentiate Products and Assessment
Using Bloom’s Taxonomy and Multiple Intelligences Theory to Differentiate Products and Assessment
Scaffolding and Curriculum-Based Assessments
Scaffolding as Formative Assessment
Curriculum-Based Assessment
Differentiating How Teachers Grade Products
Alternatives to Norm-Referenced Grading Procedures
Adapting Criterion-Referenced Grading Systems
Self-Referenced Systems
Co-Teacher Roles in Differentiating Products of Learning
Pause and Reflect
7. Differentiating the Instructional Processes
The Complexities of the Process of Instruction (Graphic Organizer)
Instructional Formats
Instructional Arrangements
Highlights on Cooperative Learning
A Focus on Cooperative Strategies for Emerging and Struggling Readers
A Highlight on Peer Tutors and Partner Learning Arrangements
Instructional Strategies
Using Taxonomies
Applying Concepts From Learning Preferences Frameworks
Integrating the Arts
Social and Physical Environment
Co-Teaching Approaches
Pause and Reflect
8. Collaborative Planning and Evaluation for Differentiated Instruction
The Rationale and Benefits of Collaborative Planning and Teaching
Effective and Efficient Use of Planning and Evaluation Time
Development of Relationships Among Team Members: It’s a Process!
Skills for Building Trust and Establishing Team Norms
Communication and Leadership Skills
Creative Problem-Solving Skills
Conflict Resolution Skills
Are We Really an Effective Planning Team?
9. Co-Teaching to Deliver Differentiated Instruction
Why Collaborate to Co-Teach?
Research Base for Co-Teaching
Who Can Be Co-Teachers?
Four Approaches to Co-Teaching
Supportive Co-Teaching
Parallel Co-Teaching
Complementary Co-Teaching
Team Co-Teaching
Questions About Co-Teaching to Differentiate Instruction
10. UDL Lesson Planning Cycle to Differentiate Instruction in Action: A Fourth-Grade Social Studies Unit
Setting the Context
Co-Teacher Professional Development Activities
Multiple Methods for Accessing Content
Differentiating the Products (Outcomes) of Learning
Differentiating the Instructional Processes
Instructional Format
Instructional Arrangements
Instructional Strategies
Social and Physical Environment
Co-Teaching Approaches
Implementing the UDL Plan
Using the Lesson Plan Template
11. UDL Lesson Planning Cycle to Differentiate Instruction in Action: Middle Level Mathematics
Who Are the Teachers?
Professional Development Activities
Gathering (New) Facts About the Learners
Multiple Methods for Accessing the Content for Algebra I
Differentiating the Products (Outcomes) of Learning
Differentiating the Instructional Processes
Group Investigation
Cognitively Guided Instruction
English Language Learner Techniques
Implementing the UDL Plan
Using the Universal Design Lesson Plan Template
12. UDL Lesson Planning Cycle to Differentiate Instruction in Action: Middle Level Science
Who Are the Teachers?
Planning to Change From a Retrofit Approach to a Universal Design Approach
Gathering (Additional) Facts About the Learners
Pause and Reflect: Tina
Planning Prior to the Lesson
Planning to Differentiate Content and Materials
Planning to Differentiate Products
Planning to Differentiate the Process of Learning
Finalizing the Lesson Plan
Differentiation in Action in the Class
Reflection
13. UDL Lesson Planning Cycle to Differentiate Instruction in Action: High School Language Arts
Who Are the Teachers?
Co-Teacher Professional Development Activities
Gathering Facts About the Learners
Differentiating the Content and Materials
Key Ideas and Details
Craft and Structure
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
Differentiating the Product
Pause and Reflect
Differentiating the Process
Co-Teacher Roles
The Planned Lesson
Before the Lesson
The Planned Instructional Sequence
Pause and Reflect
14. UDL Lesson Planning Cycle to Differentiate Instruction in Action: High School Mathematics
Who Are the Teachers?
Co-Teacher Collaborative Planning and Professional Development Activities
Gathering Facts About the Learners
Anticipating Learners’ Interests, Learning Preferences, Skills, and Conceptual Understanding
Multiple Methods for Accessing the Content of Algebra II
Unit Theme: Reasoning and Sensemaking
Standards Addressed in the Unit
Differentiating the Product: Multiple Methods to Demonstrate Unit Objectives
Implementation
Assessment of Prior Knowledge/Mastery
Differentiating the Process of Instruction
Planning for Differentiation to Include Evidence-Based Strategies
Implementing Differentiated Instructional Processes
Using the Lesson Plan Template
Reflections
Reflections on Facts About the Learners
Reflections on Content and Materials Differentiation
Reflections on Product and Assessment Differentiation
Reflections on Instructional Process Differentiation
Peer Observer Feedback and Future Goals
15. Epilogue: Pause and Reflect
Values and Assumptions About Students
Values and Assumptions About Adults
Why Explain Values and Assumptions?
References
Resources
Index
Reviews
"Thousand, Villa, and Nevin take three very big ideas in education - Universal Design, Collaboration, and Differentiated Instruction - and combine them in a novel and engaging way. And they practice what they preach – the information and examples speak to someone just beginning to differentiate instruction as well as the expert who wants to further refine his or her craft."
Douglas Fisher, Professor"Thousand, Villa, and Nevin take three very big ideas in education - Universal Design, Collaboration, and Differentiated Instruction - and combine them in a novel and engaging way. And they practice what they preach – the information and examples speak to someone just beginning to differentiate instruction as well as the expert who wants to further refine his or her craft."
San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
"The extensive emphasis on technology throughout the book and in the case studies and lesson plans provides a rich resource to the readers of this exciting text. Administrators, university instructors, and staff developers will find this a valuable tool to support their students and colleagues on their differentiation journey. "
Mary Falvey, Ph.D., Retired Dean and Prof. Emeritus"The extensive emphasis on technology throughout the book and in the case studies and lesson plans provides a rich resource to the readers of this exciting text. Administrators, university instructors, and staff developers will find this a valuable tool to support their students and colleagues on their differentiation journey. "
Charter College of Education, California State University, Los Angeles
"This book provides a whole range of practical tools for meeting wide-ranging student needs. Can’t start from scratch because of district mandates and pre-purchased curricula? Fine—here’s how to retrofit to accommodate student needs. Want to develop an instructional plan based on UDL principles? Fine—here it is, from soup to nuts. Teachers, university students, and administrators will find practical solutions to instruction firmly embedded in evidence-based theory, to meet all of their needs."
Jean Ann Summers, Ph.D., Associate Director/Research Professor"This book provides a whole range of practical tools for meeting wide-ranging student needs. Can’t start from scratch because of district mandates and pre-purchased curricula? Fine—here’s how to retrofit to accommodate student needs. Want to develop an instructional plan based on UDL principles? Fine—here it is, from soup to nuts. Teachers, university students, and administrators will find practical solutions to instruction firmly embedded in evidence-based theory, to meet all of their needs."
Beach Center on Disability, Life Span Institute, University of Kansas
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