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Ways to differentiate

February 9th, 2009 · 3 Comments

In a perfect world, educators would be able to personalize lessons and tailor them to the unique needs and interests of each student. Alas, until the system is disrupted a lot more, that will not happen.  So what is a teacher to do?

Differentiate whenever you can, it may not be perfect for every       student but [...]

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Differentiate?

February 2nd, 2009 · 3 Comments

Hopefully this will be the first of a series of blogs (inspired by Chris Bell) about differentiated instruction using Voicethread.
This all came together for me earlier this year when I was able to attend an all day session with Susan Winebrenner about Teaching Gifted Kids in the Regular Classroom. Here is a graphic-

Most  curriculum is [...]

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