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"Differentiation is adjusting and modifying what skills and concepts student learn, what materials the use, and/or how their learning is assessed based on the needs of the students. Our students are not all the same, so we cannot expect that teaching a lesson one way will reach every student."
Beth Dichter's insight:
This post from For the Teachers provides two great resources to help you look at differentiation in your classroom. The first is a detailed visual (Differentiation Planning Diagram) that looks at three areas of planning necessary for differentiation. * Concepts - The skills and concepts students will are expected to know or be able to do (at the end of a lesson or unit). * Assesments - How the students will demonstrate what they have learned. * Activities and Materials - The materials, activities and lessons that students will do or use to practice skills and gain information. There is also a great visual that provides 101 Ways to Show What You Know (which may be downloaded as a pdf). This visual has four areas that students may show their knowledge/understanding: * Visual * Written * Performance * Spoken You may find yourself printing out this visual and using it as a way to quickly consider a variety of ways students could demonstrate their knowledge. The Differentiation Planning Diagram may also be downloaded. 
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Beth Dichter's insight:
This is a great interactive model of critical thinking. One circle has 8 elements of thought: * Question at issue * Information * Interpretation and influence * Concepts * Assumptions * Implications and Consequences * Point of View As you role over and selelct an element of thought you are hown additional information about the element. For example, if you were to select Point of View you would be prompted to understand your point of view and provided with questions to further your thinking. In addition there are also prompts for intellectual standards to consider. The intellectual standards include: clarity, accuracy, precision, relevance, depth, breadth, logic, significance, and fairness. In each of these area there is a brief definition as well a three additional questions to consider. There is also one choice (more) that provides you with additional standards you might want to consider and suggests that you think of your own.
Alistair Parker's curator insight,
January 30, 2013 3:57 AM
Beth Dichter's insight: This is a great interactive model of critical thinking. One circle has 8 elements of thought: * Question at issue * Information * Interpretation and influence * Concepts * Assumptions * Implications and Consequences * Point of View As you role over and selelct an element of thought you are hown additional information about the element. For example, if you were to select Point of View you would be prompted to understand your point of view and provided with questions to further your thinking. In addition there are also prompts for intellectual standards to consider. The intellectual standards include: clarity, accuracy, precision, relevance, depth, breadth, logic, significance, and fairness. In each of these area there is a brief definition as well a three additional questions to consider. There is also one choice (more) that provides you with additional standards you might want to consider and suggests that you think of your own. 
R Hollingsworth's curator insight,
January 30, 2013 9:33 AM
I'm thinking this is a pretty complicated model given that many of our very best critical thinking is done within the space of a blink! However, it's useful to be able to break it down and explain it for undergraduates for whom universities have great expectations in criticial thinking but don't really explain how they know what it is when they see it. And, sadly, in introductory courses too often professors don't expect critical thinking of their students - sticking too close to recall or lower levels of application thinking for their expectations of student performance.
R Hollingsworth's comment,
January 30, 2013 9:34 AM
terrific toy for educators to play with and use - would work great in a group discussion with a faculty scholarly community...
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We hopefully are all trying to differentiate, but sometimes we need that creative push and encouragement. This is a wonderful resource with printable infographics for coming work areas and links to concepts and other resources to really get you thinking in every direction outside of the box - each student will gain something out of you using this.
These differentiation flowcharts will prompt teachers to make good decisions around scaffolding of student learning.
Check out concepts, assessments, and activities for differentiation...