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Facilitator's Guide to Differentiating the High School Classroom

Solution Strategies for 18 Common Obstacles

Help teachers overcome the 18 most common obstacles to differentiating instruction for high school students!

Designed to accompany the best-selling book, this facilitator's guide provides staff developers with the necessary tools to demonstrate how teachers can confidently differentiate instruction in high school classrooms. Each chapter includes summaries, journal prompts, practical applications, discussion questions, and timed activities to help you answer questions about:

  • Identifying individual students' learning styles
  • Approaching content in ways that give students choices
  • Varying the process for achieving learning objectives
  • Creating different methods to assess what students learn
  • Using assessments as teaching tools

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Product Details
  • Grade Level: K-12
  • ISBN: 9781412965958
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2008
  • Page Count: 48
  • Publication date: June 26, 2008
Price: $21.95
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Description

Help teachers overcome the 18 most common obstacles to differentiating instruction for high school students!

Designed to accompany the best-selling book Differentiating the High School Classroom: Solution Strategies for 18 Common Obstacles, this facilitator's guide provides staff developers with the necessary tools to demonstrate how teachers can confidently meet the challenge of differentiating instruction in high school classrooms. Facilitators will be able to address concerns voiced by real teachers, such as "I have too much content to cover," or "I can't grade all those different assignments," or "I thought I was differentiating." Use this guide to help participants review and understand critical pedagogical and curriculum issues as you lead discussions about effective ways to

  • Identify individual students' learning styles
  • Approach content in ways that give students choices
  • Vary the process for achieving learning objectives
  • Create different methods to assess what students learn
  • Use assessments as teaching tools

This chapter-by-chapter study guide features

  • Chapter summaries
  • Discussion questions
  • Timed activities
  • Prompts for journal writing
  • Practical applications
  • Overheads and activity sheets
  • A workshop evaluation form

Whether used to help lead independent studies, one-day workshops, or extended workshops, this guide gives facilitators a solid background to successfully lead trainings for groups of any size—pairs, small workshops, or large seminars.

Author(s)

Kathie F. Nunley photo

Kathie F. Nunley
Kathie F. Nunley delights teachers from around the world with her practical solutions to the challenges of today’s diverse classrooms. With more than 15 years of high school classroom teaching experience in both urban and suburban schools, she is the developer of the Layered Curriculum method of instruction. Nunley is a noted speaker at state, national, and international conferences and has authored several books and articles on brain biology and teaching in the mixed-ability classroom.

Table of Contents

About the Author

Introduction

How to Use This Guide

Additional Resources for Facilitators

Chapter-by-Chapter Study Guide: Differentiating the High School Classroom: Solution Strategies for 18 Common Obstacles by Kathie F. Nunley

Welcome and Workshop Starter

Introduction: I Just Can't Do That in MY School/Classroom/Situation

Chapter Summary

Discussion Questions

Activities

Putting It Into Practice

Journal Prompt

Chapter 1 Obstacle: I Long to Return to the Good Old Days

Chapter Summary

Discussion Questions

Activity

Journal Prompt

Chapter 2 Obstacle: I Thought I Was Differentiating

Chapter Summary

Discussion Questions

Activity

Putting It Into Practice

Chapter 3 Obstacle: I Teach the Way I Was Taught

Chapter Summary

Discussion Questions

Activities

Putting It Into Practice

Chapter 4 Obstacle: I Don’t Know How

Chapter Summary

Discussion Questions

Activity

Putting It Into Practice

Chapter 5 Obstacle: I Have Too Much Content to Cover

Chapter Summary

Discussion Questions

Activity

Putting It Into Practice

Chapter 6 Obstacle: I’m Good at Lecturing

Chapter Summary

Discussion Questions

Activity

Journal Prompt

Chapter 7 Obstacle: I Can’t See How I Would Grade All Those Different Assignments

Chapter Summary

Discussion Questions

Activity

Putting It Into Practice

Chapter 8 Obstacle: I Thought Differentiated Instruction Was for Elementary Schools

Chapter Summary

Discussion Questions

Activity

Putting It Into Practice

Chapter 9 Obstacle: I Subscribe to Ability Grouping

Chapter Summary

Discussion Questions

Activity

Putting It Into Practice

Chapter 10 Obstacle: I Have Real Logistic Issues

Chapter Summary

Discussion Questions

Activity

Journal Prompt

Chapter 11 Obstacle: I Want My Classroom Under Control

Chapter Summary

Discussion Questions

Activity

Putting It Into Practice

Chapter 12 Obstacle: I Don’t Know How to Measure My Students' Learning Style

Chapter Summary

Discussion Questions

Activity

Putting It Into Practice

Chapter 13 Obstacle: I Have Neither the Time nor the Funding for All That

Chapter Summary

Discussion Questions

Activity

Putting It Into Practice

Chapter 14 Obstacle: I’ve Been Teaching This Way for Years, and It Works

Chapter Summary

Discussion Questions

Activity

Putting It Into Practice

Chapter 15 Obstacle: There’s No Support for It at My School

Chapter Summary

Discussion Questions

Putting It Into Practice

Chapter 16 Obstacle: My District Requires Me to Follow a Prescribed Text

Chapter Summary

Discussion Questions

Activity

Putting It Into Practice

Chapter 17 Obstacle: Parents Expect Lecture Format in High School for College Prep

Chapter Summary

Discussion Questions

Activity

Putting It Into Practice

Chapter 18 Obstacle: The Bottom Line—If They Are Learning, You Are Teaching

Chapter Summary

Discussion Questions

Activity

Journal Prompt

Overheads and Activity Sheets

Overhead 1: Workshop Starter

Overhead 2: Differentiated Instruction

Overhead 3: The Power of Episodic Memory

Activity Sheet 1: Differentiating All Three Learning Areas

Activity Sheet 2: Layered Curriculum

Workshop Evaluation Form

Reviews

Quote by Marilee Sprenger, Educational Consultant, Author, Differentiation Through Learning Styles and Memory: "I have always recommended layered curriculum as the best way to differentiate at the middle and high school levels, but this book really offers not only an explanation of the strategy, but also real steps to making it work."
"I have always recommended layered curriculum as the best way to differentiate at the middle and high school levels, but this book really offers not only an explanation of the strategy, but also real steps to making it work."
Marilee Sprenger, Educational Consultant
Author, Differentiation Through Learning Styles and Memory
Quote by David A. Sousa, Educational Consultant, Author, How the Brain Learns: "Packed with thought-provoking questions and relevant activities, this superb complement to Kathie Nunley’s book will definitely help facilitators give high school teachers the confidence to successfully differentiate their classroom instruction. "
"Packed with thought-provoking questions and relevant activities, this superb complement to Kathie Nunley’s book will definitely help facilitators give high school teachers the confidence to successfully differentiate their classroom instruction. "
David A. Sousa, Educational Consultant
Author, How the Brain Learns

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