1st Edition
Differentiated Instruction A Guide for Elementary School Teachers
By Amy Benjamin
Copyright 2003
192 Pages
by
Eye On Education
208 Pages
by
Eye On Education
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This book demonstrates how to make your classroom more responsive to the needs of individual students with a wide variety of learning styles, interests, goals, cultural backgrounds, and prior knowledge. Focusing on grades K through 6, it showcases classroom-tested activities and strategies. Differentiated Instruction: A Guide for Elementary School Teachers shows you how to vary your instruction so... Read more
Foreword
How to Use This Book
1 Foundations
2 Where Do I Start?
3 The Language of Differentiated Instruction
4 Language Arts
5 Teaching for Abstract Thinking
6 Concept Mapping
7 Teaching Question-Making
8 Differentiating Instruction for English Language Learners
9 Differentiating Instruction Through the Arts
10 Paradigms for Differentiated Instruction
11 Model Differentiated Instruction Lessons
Appendix A: Assessment Guide
Appendix B: Teaching Emotionally Fragile Children
Appendix C: Teaching Gifted and Talented Children
Appendix D: Planning Differentiated Instruction
Appendix E: A Mental Map for the Differentiated Instruction Teacher
Appendix F: The Think Test
Appendix G: Here's Where You Lose Me, Teacher
Appendix H: The State-of-the-Art Differentiated Instruction Classroom
Appendix I: Responding to Wrong Answers
Appendix J: Scaffolding and Differentiated Instruction
References
How to Use This Book
1 Foundations
2 Where Do I Start?
3 The Language of Differentiated Instruction
4 Language Arts
5 Teaching for Abstract Thinking
6 Concept Mapping
7 Teaching Question-Making
8 Differentiating Instruction for English Language Learners
9 Differentiating Instruction Through the Arts
10 Paradigms for Differentiated Instruction
11 Model Differentiated Instruction Lessons
Appendix A: Assessment Guide
Appendix B: Teaching Emotionally Fragile Children
Appendix C: Teaching Gifted and Talented Children
Appendix D: Planning Differentiated Instruction
Appendix E: A Mental Map for the Differentiated Instruction Teacher
Appendix F: The Think Test
Appendix G: Here's Where You Lose Me, Teacher
Appendix H: The State-of-the-Art Differentiated Instruction Classroom
Appendix I: Responding to Wrong Answers
Appendix J: Scaffolding and Differentiated Instruction
References
Biography
Amy Benjamin
