Differentiating Instruction with Technology

Day 1

8:00 - 8:45  
Introductions / Pre-Survey

8:45 - 9:15
How Is Brain Research Affecting Classroom Practice?

• How Can Research on the Brain Inform Education?
• Brain Research
• Brain Connection
• How Your Brain Works

Content - knowledge, skills and attitudes we want children to learn - continual assessment
Product - varying the complexity of the product that students create to demonstrate mastery of the concepts.
Process - varying learning activities or strategies to provide appropriate methods for students to explore the concepts.
Learning Environment - addressing the variety of learning styles, multiple intelligences

• What is the Differentiated Classroom
• What is Differentiated Instruction? - Elementary Examples
• What is Differentiated Instruction? - High School Example

• CAST - Differentiated Instruction
• How to Differentiate Tutorial
• Carol Ann Tomlinson Links

10:00 - 10:15  
Break

10:15 - 10:30 
Differentiating Environment

• Reaching Individual Students Everyday

10:30 - 11:30 
KRSPing

• State Learning Standards and Discriptors
• Examples
• Third Grade Example
• Fourth Grade Example
• Know, Reason, Skills, Products Template
• Vocabulary
• Standards Based Teaching and Differentiation

11:30 – 12:30  
Lunch

12:30 - 1:15 
Multiple Intelligences

• Interactive Snowflake
• MI Wheel
• MI Examples
• Tapping into Multiple Intelligences
• Technology and MI
• Right Brain Left Brain Theory

1:30 - 2:00
Assessment

• The Wonderful World of Assessment Toolkit
• The Wonderful World of Assessment Information

2:00 – 3:15 
Group Work

3:15 – 3:30 
Sharing Ideas / Needs / Reflection     

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