Differentiating the Content
WHAT IT IS....
"What a student should know, understand, and be able to do as a result of the study." (Tomlinson)
what to do......
-Assess what students know and don't know as well as their zone of proximal development -"distance between the actual development level and the level of potential development" (Vygotsky)
-Modify the material or resources to be learned based on the pre-assessment
-Modify the material or resources to be learned based on the pre-assessment
how you can do it.....
~ Tiered Activities
TRY ONE OUT!
~ Compacting the Curriculum
~ Flexible Grouping
~Jigsaw (Varied Expert Group Complexity)
~Varied Text Levels
~Varied Question Complexity
~Varied Materials