Exploring Differentiated Instruction (The Professional Learning Community Series) - Softcover

Cindy Strickland (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1416608346 ISBN 13: 9781416608349

Publisher: ASCD, 2009

Synopsis

Use this handy guide to get your PLC engaged, energized, and ready to implement differentiated instruction. Everything you need to organize and run your PLC―including agendas, schedules, handouts, and background readings―is included. With enough materials for 10 sessions in total, you can focus your PLC on all of the critical issues related to differentiated instruction, including:

• Getting started with DI.
• Defining what good differentiation is.
• Establishing routines that support differentiation.
• Using flexible grouping, curriculum, instruction, and formative assessment in a differentiated classroom.
• Easy-to-use charts, checklists, and templates support every step of getting started and keeping your PLC on track.

About this title

About the Author

Cindy A. Strickland has been a teacher for twenty-five years and has worked with students of all ages, from kindergarten to master s degree. A member of the ASCD Differentiation Faculty Cadre, Cindy works closely with Carol Ann Tomlinson and has coauthored several books and articles with her. In the past eight years, Cindy s consulting work has taken her to forty-six states, five provinces, and three continents where she has provided workshops on topics relating to differentiation, the Parallel Curriculum Model (PCM), and gifted education. Cindy s publications include Staff Development Guide for the Parallel Curriculum; The Parallel Curriculum Model, 2nd edition; The Parallel Curriculum Model in the Classroom: Applications Across the Content Areas; and In Search of the Dream: Designing Schools and Classrooms That Work for High Potential Students from Diverse Cultural Backgrounds.Publications in differentiation include Professional Development for Differentiated Instruction: An ASCD Toolkit, Exploring Differentiated Instruction, Tools for High-Quality Differentiated Instruction: An ASCD Toolkit, the ASCD online course Success with Differentiation, the book Differentiation in Practice: A Resource Guide for Differentiating Curriculum, Grades 9 12, and a unit in the book Differentiation in Practice: A Resource Guide for Differentiating Curriculum, Grades 5 9.

Edition details

• Publisher: ASCD
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1416608346
• ISBN 13: 9781416608349
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72