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Lesson Design for Differentiated Instruction, Grades 4-9

By: Kathy Tuchman Glass

Foreword by H. Lynn Erickson

Develop effective differentiated lessons that meet students' individual learning needs!

This book helps teachers develop confidence and expertise in planning differentiated lessons, units, and assessments and provides step-by-step guidance for creating meaningful lessons in language arts, math, science, and social studies in Grades 4–9. With a detailed planning template, examples, and reproducibles, this user-friendly resource:

Provides an overview of differentiation based on the backward design model
Discusses strategies for differentiating content, process, and product
Helps teachers organize lessons around guiding or essential questions
Shows how to plan lessons according to students' learning characteristics

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Product Details

Grade Level: 4-9
ISBN: 9781412959827
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2009
Page Count: 216
Publication date: January 14, 2009

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"The book provides helpful background information as well as a wide variety of examples of differentiated lessons, resource guides, reproducible templates, and a selection of grading tools ranging from rubrics to graphic organizers."
—Allan Varni, Instructor and Regional Coordinator
Division of Continuing Education, University of San Diego

"Glass examines the constructs of masterful teaching and makes them accessible to all. Her intensely practical and forthright approach allows readers to immediately translate the concepts of differentiation into their classrooms."
—Modell Marlow Andersen, Director of Educational Services
Hillsborough City School District, CA

Develop effective differentiated lessons that meet students' individual learning needs!

Differentiation allows teachers to target student needs and engage all students according to their learning preferences. Designed for teachers who are new to differentiating instruction, this book provides step-by-step guidance for creating meaningful lessons in language arts, math, science, and social studies at the upper elementary and middle school levels.

Kathy Tuchman Glass helps teachers develop confidence and expertise in differentiating lessons, units, and assessments and provides a detailed planning template, numerous examples, and reproducibles. This user-friendly resource:

Provides an overview of differentiation based on the backward design model
Discusses strategies for differentiating content, process, and product
Helps teachers organize lessons around guiding or essential questions for students to explore
Shows how to take students' learning characteristics (readiness, interests, learning styles) into consideration when planning lessons

Lesson Design for Differentiated Instruction, Grades 4–9 helps teachers plan differentiated lessons that will promote learning for every student.

Key features

Provides an overview of differentiation based on the Backward Design Model
Discusses strategies for differentiating the middle-level classroom
Provides examples of differentiated lessons in language arts, math, science, and social studies
Organizes lessons around guiding, or essential, questions

Author(s)

Kathy Tuchman Glass

Consulting Description

Kathy Glass is a former teacher who consults and presents nationally with K-12 teachers and administrators at schools, districts, conferences, and county offices of education. She offers a blend of professional development (PD) topics to target audiences in areas affecting curriculum and instruction. To deliver customized PD, she assists educators with strategic planning to determine objectives. Then she tailors PD based on requested topics such as, but not limited to:

· highlights of the ELA Common Core Standards

· implementation of the ELA Common Core or other standards-based curriculum using a backward design approach

· essential understandings and guiding questions to frame curriculum and instruction

· differentiated tools and instructional strategies

· pre-, formative, summative, and self-assessments

· alignment of six-traits writing instruction and assessment to curriculum goals

· unit and yearlong curriculum maps

· text-dependent questions to facilitate close reading, and more.

To help educators directly translate what she presents into effective classroom practice that impacts students, Kathy can provide a variety of PD opportunities (e.g., presentations, lesson demonstrations and modeling, coaching, collaborative unit design, etc.).

She is the author of six books: Mapping Comprehensive Units to the English Language (ELA) Arts Common Core Standards, 6-12 (May, 2013); Mapping Comprehensive Units to the ELA Common Core Standards, K-5 (© 2012); Lesson Design for Differentiated Instruction, Grades 4-9 (©2009); Staff Development Guide for the Parallel Curriculum (©2009); Curriculum Mapping: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Curriculum Year Overviews (©2007); and Curriculum Design for Writing Instruction: Creating Standards-Based Lesson Plans and Rubrics (©2005). In addition, Glass has served as a reader and reviewer for Reader’s Handbook: A Student Guide for Reading and Learning (2002, Great Source Education Group) and as a contributing writer and consultant for the Heath Middle Level Literature series (1995, DC Heath and Co). Website: www.kathyglassconsulting.com; email: kathy@kathyglassconsulting.com

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Author

1. Differentiated Instruction and Strategies

Differentiated Instruction

Definition: Content, Process, Product

Student Characteristics: Readiness, Interest, Learning Profile

Differentiated Strategy Suggestions

2. Differentiated Lesson Design

Overview of Lesson Components

Comprehensive Differentiated Lesson Samples

3. Standards, Concepts, and Guiding Questions

How Do Teachers Develop Unit and Lesson Guiding Questions

How Do Teachers Use Guiding Questions in the Classroom?

4. Assessment in a Differentiated Classroom

Types of Assessments

Assessment Examples

5. Additional Lesson-Planning Components for Differentiated Curriculum

Resources

Timing

Skills and Activities

Student Grouping

Teaching Strategies

Extensions

6. Closing

References and Further Reading

Index

Reviews

"Glass examines the constructs of masterful teaching and makes them accessible to all by identifying, defining, and exploring the premises, concepts, and skills necessary to engage all learners. Her intensely practical and forthright approach allows readers to immediately translate the concepts of differentiation into their classrooms."

Modell Marlow Andersen, Director of Educational Services
Hillsborough City School District, CA

“By using this book as a guide, any teacher can create lessons and classroom learning settings that can meet the needs of the students in all subject areas. The book provides helpful background information; offers a wide variety of examples of differentiated lessons, resource guides, reproducible templates; and includes a selection of grading tools ranging from rubrics to graphic organizers.”

Allan Varni, Instructor and Regional Coordinator
Division of Continuing Education, University of San Diego

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