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Key Points
Supporters of differentiation believe:
 * All students have areas of strength
 * All students have areas that need to be strengthened
 * Each student's brain is as unique as a fingerprint
 * It is never to late to learn
 * When beginning a new topic, students bring their prior knowledge base and experience to the learning
 * Emotions, feelings, and attitudes affect learning
 * All students can learn
 * Students learn in different ways at different times

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//**What is a Differentiated Classroom?**//
//"A differentiated classroom is on in which the teacher repsonds to the unique needs ot students."// Carol Ann Tomlinson (1999) names content, process, and product as things that are differntiated in a classroom.


 * Content - what is taught
 * Process - the way a learner interprets, adapts, and finds ownership
 * Product - learner's personal interpretaion and what he knows.

**Teachers can effectively differentiate**

 * ** content **
 * ** assessment tools **
 * ** performance tasks **
 * **intructional strategies**

** Differentiating Content **

 * Using different genres
 * leveling materials
 * using a variety of instrucitonal materials (things we did: document camera, notes, book, computer)
 * providing choices (things we did: pick 10 of the 20 to complete)
 * using selective abandoment (things we did:skip 3 questions)

**Differentiating Assessment Tools**

 * Assess knowlege and interests prior to learning.
 * Dispense a blending of formal and informal tools for ongoing assessment

** Differentiating Performance Tasks **

 * Provide various opportunities and choices for learners to show what they know
 * examples: create a prop, give an oral report, engage in in a center experience

**Differentiating Instrucitonal Strategies**
Conclusion - Why Differentiation?
 * target diverse intelligences and learning styles
 * label activities in ways that help studenst choose when to work in their areas of strengths
 * use a variety of ways to help learning become part of long-term memory


 * Standards-based classrooms
 * High expectations for all students NCLB
 * Multicultural diversity
 * Student diversity - learning styles, levels of multiple intelligences
 * Brain Based research
 * Rabid societal and technologial changes.

Why Differentiation?
Schools are expected to put the C.A.R.T.before the horse C connected, conpetence, confidence, compassion A acceptance, affection, appreciation R Reading, "Riting, and "Rithmetic and alos Responsibility, Respect and Relationships T Thinking, Technology, Teamwork

Consider each child within the learning community, based on his or her needs, readiness, preferences, and interests.