1st Edition

Differentiated Instruction A Guide for Middle and High School Teachers

By Amy Benjamin Copyright 2002
    176 Pages
    by Eye On Education

    176 Pages
    by Eye On Education

    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 6 through 12, this book showcases classroom-tested activities and strategies.

    Differentiated Instruction: A Guide for Middle and High School Teachers shows you how to vary your instruction so you can respond to the needs of individual learners. The concrete examples in this book demonstrate how you can use differentiated instruction to clarify:
    • the content (what you want students to know and be able to do)
    • the process (how students are going to go about learning the content)
    • and the product (how they will show you what they know.)

    This book is uniquely interactive. It features "Reflections" to help you understand your teaching style and guide you towards developing habits of mind which result in effective differentiated instruction.

    Also included is a chapter on teaching students whose native language is not English.

    Foreword by Heidi Hayes Jacobs
    Foundations
    Where Do I Start
    The Language of Differentiation Instruction
    Differentiating Instruction for Reading a Textbook
    Differentiating Instruction for Independent Reading
    Differentiating Instruction for Learning New Words
    Differentiating Instruction Through the Arts
    Differentiating Instruction for English Language Learners
    Administrative Support for Differentiated Instruction
    Case Studies
    Conclusion

    Biography

    Amy Benjamin