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The Best of Corwin: Differentiated Instruction

This collection features a tapestry of critical information for teachers implementing differentiation. Includes standards-based lesson- and unit-planning templates, graphic organizers, and brain-based research.

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  • Grade Level: K-12
  • ISBN: 9781452217406
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Series: The Best of Corwin
  • Year: 2011
  • Page Count: 208
  • Publication date: September 21, 2011

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The definitive guide to differentiated instruction

The Best of Corwin series showcases key chapters from critically acclaimed Corwin publications for a powerful compilation of perspectives on important education issues and topics. The Best of Corwin: Differentiated Instruction features a tapestry of critical information to guide teachers in implementing differentiation. Helpful tools include standards-based lesson- and unit-planning templates, graphic organizers, and brain-based research. The compilation also provides:

  • Strategies for understanding students' needs
  • Tips for accommodating various learning styles
  • Curriculum approaches for data-driven instruction
  • Ways to use graphic organizers to promote differentiation
  • Guidance in creating a positive learning environment

Also included is a chapter that offers an in-depth look at middle and high school learners and the need for differentiation to satisfy their developmental needs. This practical guide from the best minds in education is a must-have for all teachers who need the essential tools to design and implement differentiated instruction.

Author(s)

Author(s)

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Gayle H. Gregory

Gayle H. Gregory is first and foremost a teacher, having experienced teaching and learning in elementary, middle, and secondary schools, community colleges, and universities. She has had extensive district-wide experience as a curriculum consultant and staff development coordinator. Gayle was principal/course director at York University for the Faculty of Education, teaching in the teacher education program.
Her areas of expertise include brain-compatible learning, differentiated instructional and assessment strategies, block scheduling, emotional intelligence, student motivation, RTI Tier One, collaborative learning, common core, renewal of secondary schools, enhancing teacher quality, coaching and mentoring, managing change, and building professional learning communities. She also a trainer for Visible Learning Plus with Corwin.

She is an author of numerous books related to educational neuroscience and differentiated instruction, assessment, and curriculum, including the following titles:

• Data Driven Differentiation in the Standards-Based Classroom, Second Edition (2014, with Lin Kuzmich)
• Differentiated Instructional Strategies: One Size Doesn’t Fit All, Third Edition (2013, with Carolyn Chapman)
• Differentiated Instructional Strategies Professional Learning Guide: One Size Doesn’t Fit All, Third Edition (2013)
• Differentiated Literacy Strategies for English Language Learners, Grades K–6 and Differentiated Literacy Strategies for English Language Learners, Grades 7–12 (2011, with Amy Burkman)
• Differentiated Instructional Strategies for the Block Schedule (2010, with Lynne E. Herndon)
• Student Teams That Get Results: Teaching Tools for the Differentiated Classroom (2009, with Lin Kuzmich)
• Teacher Teams That Get Results: 61 Strategies for Sustaining and Renewing Professional Learning Communities (2009, with Lin Kuzmich)
• Differentiated Instructional Strategies for Science, Grades K–8 (2009, with Elizabeth Hammerman)
• Differentiating Instruction With Style: Aligning Teacher and Learner Intelligences for Maximum Achievement (2005)
• The Activities for Differentiated Classroom series (2007, with Carolyn Chapman)

She is affiliated with organizations such as ASCD and Learning Forward. Her ASCD publication is The Motivated Brain: Improving Student Attention engagement and Perseverance (2015, with Martha Kaufeldt).

Gayle consults internationally with teachers, administrators, and staff developers.

She and her family of two daughters and two granddaughters all reside in Burlington, Ontario.

Gayle is committed to lifelong learning and professional growth for herself and others. She may be contacted at gregorygayle@netscape.net, www.gaylehgregory.com, and @gaylegregory6.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface


Introduction


About the Editor


About the Contributors


1. Creating a Climate for Learning

2. Getting to Know Your Students: Learning Strengths

3. Differentiating for Different Learning Styles

4. Curriculum Approaches for Data-Driven Instruction

5. Differentiated Instruction and Strategies

6. Graphic Organizers: Tools to Promote Differentiation

7. Differentiation and Adolescent Development

8. Interface Between Gifted Education and General Education: Toward Communication, Cooperation, and Collaboration

9. Putting It All Together in Your Differentiated Classroom

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