DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION Student Choice Choice Boards WHAT IS

DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION Student Choice: Choice Boards

WHAT IS A CHOICE BOARD? Choice boards offers opportunities for students to take control of their learning. Students make decisions about how they will meet class requirements. A choice board could be for a single lesson, a weeklong lesson, or even a month-long period of study. You may offer as many or as few options that will work for your classroom. Steps: 1. Identify the target of the lesson. 2. Brainstorm the multiple ways students could show that knowledge. 3. Create a final optional section that requires students the opportunity for enrichment, research, and practice.

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DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION Modes, Tiers, and Grouping: Learning Style

DIFFERENTIATING BY LEARNING STYLES What learning style are you? We typically teach our style of learning. Over 30% of your learners are probably visual.

VISUAL LEARNERS Engaging Visual Learners Use highlighting tape in text Draw attention to posters and peripherals in room Show filmstrips or videotapes Use graphic organizers Use pointers during whole-group instruction Point out details in illustrations Use expressive gestures and body language Display word walls Visual learners do very well with, and all learners benefit from: Puzzles Drawing • Tracing over sheet protectors • Writing Estimating amounts, weights • Viewing a video or a filmstrip • Presentations using Power. Point™ or other graphics-based digital media • Visual sequencing • Memory matching games • Marking answers in text with highlighting tape Scholastic. com

AUDITORY LEARNERS Engaging Auditory Learners Read aloud often Make a listening center available Record directions, passages or chapters so students can listen and read along Use music to teach skills Vary the pitch and tone of your voice Encourage peer discussions Ask for retellings Use Readers Theater Auditory learners do very well with, and all learners benefit from: Books on tape • Story retelling with puppets • Using whisper phones • Teacherled small-group instruction • Recording an oral retelling • Headphones (with wires cut off) to eliminate distractions • Acting out character roles Scholastic. com

KINESTHETIC LEARNER Engaging Kinesthetic and Tactile Learners Use role-playing Provide props for retelling Supply clay and other simple building materials for making models Slide skill sheets into page protectors and let students complete the exercises with a water-based pen that can be erased when they’re finished Allow a “walk-and-talk” format for peer discussion Incorporate energizing movement regularly Kinesthetic and tactile learners do very well with, and all learners benefit from: Working with clay and other malleable materials • Using pointers during independent reading • Acting out a story Using number and letter stamps • Learning sign language • Dice or card games • Experiments • Floor puzzles, envelope activities scholastic. com

MUSICAL LEARNERS Incredibox. com Ujam. com

DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION Groups and Assessments: Anchors, Sidebars, and Tiered Lesson Planning

WHAT IS IT? Anchors: An anchor chart outlines or describes procedures, processes, and strategies on a particular theme and is posted in the classroom for reference by students. Examples: • How to check your heart rate • Comma usage • How to pick good fit books These are created WITH students

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WHAT IS IT? Side bars, Genius Hour and Passion Projects: What do you want to learn about? How can you show what you have learned? Who else does this? ? ? Google www. rundesroom. com/2013/11/passion-projects-week-2. html

WHAT IS IT? Tiered Lesson Planning: Tasks and activities varied by readiness, learner profile, interest, or choice.