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Differentiating for students' learning preferences can often seem too complex and complicated for too little gain. Learn a better way forward with the guidance of Doable Differentiation. Author Jane A. G. Kise provides a series of straightforward, high-reward strategies that K-12 educators like you successfully use in their daily practice to support, engage, and challenge students with diverse learning styles.
• Understand the benefits of differentiation and how to implement differentiated instruction simply and effectively.
• Learn students' preferred cognitive processing styles to better tailor differentiated lesson plans for all learners' needs.
• Discover 12 categories of research-based differentiation strategies to implement immediately.
• Provide students with a variety of accessible options for processing information, engaging in higher-level thinking, and demonstrating learning.
• Engage learners and develop their proficiency and self-efficacy.
Contents:
Introduction: What Makes Differentiation Doable?
Part 1: The Foundation
Chapter 1: Cognitive Processes and Effective Differentiation
Chapter 2: Clear Learning Goals and Expectations
Part 2: The Strategies
Chapter 3: Choice
Chapter 4: Wait Time
Chapter 5: Unambiguous Instruction
Chapter 6: Pressure-Prompted Accommodations
Chapter 7: Student-Centered Discussions
Chapter 8: Curiosity Creators
Chapter 9: Open Questions
Chapter 10: Concept Maps
Chapter 11: Big Notes
Chapter 12: Moveable Organizers
Chapter 13: Planned Movement
Chapter 14: Talking to Write
Part 3: Lesson Planning
Chapter 15: Two-Step Differentiation
Epilogue
References and Resources
Index.
• Understand the benefits of differentiation and how to implement differentiated instruction simply and effectively.
• Learn students' preferred cognitive processing styles to better tailor differentiated lesson plans for all learners' needs.
• Discover 12 categories of research-based differentiation strategies to implement immediately.
• Provide students with a variety of accessible options for processing information, engaging in higher-level thinking, and demonstrating learning.
• Engage learners and develop their proficiency and self-efficacy.
Contents:
Introduction: What Makes Differentiation Doable?
Part 1: The Foundation
Chapter 1: Cognitive Processes and Effective Differentiation
Chapter 2: Clear Learning Goals and Expectations
Part 2: The Strategies
Chapter 3: Choice
Chapter 4: Wait Time
Chapter 5: Unambiguous Instruction
Chapter 6: Pressure-Prompted Accommodations
Chapter 7: Student-Centered Discussions
Chapter 8: Curiosity Creators
Chapter 9: Open Questions
Chapter 10: Concept Maps
Chapter 11: Big Notes
Chapter 12: Moveable Organizers
Chapter 13: Planned Movement
Chapter 14: Talking to Write
Part 3: Lesson Planning
Chapter 15: Two-Step Differentiation
Epilogue
References and Resources
Index.