| Anchoring
Activities
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A PowerPoint presentation that describes the
use of anchor activities as a strategy to differentiate instruction.
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| Designing
Differentiated Learning Contracts
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| Contract #1 & #2 |
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| Contract #3 |
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Learning contracts give students freedom to plan their
time and yet provide guidelines for completing work responsibly.
Things to remember:
- The various levels of contracts should look alike.
- The tasks parallel each other across the contracts.
- You can differentiate by skills and/or content and by a student's
readiness.
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| Designing
Differentiated Cubes
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Cubing is a strategy that requires students to think on
multiple levels.
Things to remember:
- You must have more than one cube.
- Cubes can be differentiated by student readiness, interest, or
learning profile.
- Each side of the cube should have a command such as describe,
compare, analyze, etc., and a prompting question or statement
underneath.
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| Tiered
Activities to Alter the Depth of a Lesson
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| Tiered Assignment Plan - Blank Template |
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| Tiered Assignment Plan - Sample for Language Arts |
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Tiered assignments are considered the
"meat and potatoes" of differentiation.
- Design the lesson for one level of student, then adjust it
according to the needs of the other levels of students in your
class.
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