How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed-Ability Classrooms | 
 enlarge | Author: Carol Ann Tomlinson
Publisher: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve
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Edition: 2
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Pages: 117
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Dimensions (in): 10 x 7.7 x 0.3
ISBN: 0871205122
Dewey Decimal Number: 371.252
EAN: 9780871205124
ASIN: 0871205122
Publication Date: April 2001
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Book Description
In this 2nd edition of a book that has provided inspiration to countless teachers, Carol Ann Tomlinson offers three new chapters, extended examples and information in every chapter, and field-tested strategies that teachers can use in today's increasingly diverse classrooms. Tomlinson shows how to use students' readiness levels, interests, and learning profiles to address student diversity. In addition, the author shows teachers how to differentiate, or structure, lessons at every grade level and content area to provide "scaffolds"--as well as high-speed elevators--for $ The content of lessons, $ The processes used in learning, and $ The products of learning. Teachers can draw on the book's practical examples as they begin to differentiate instruction in their own classrooms. Strategies include curriculum compacting, "sidebar" investigations, entry points, graphic organizers, contracts, and portfolios. As Tomlinson says, "Differentiation challenges us to draw on our best knowledge of teaching and learning. It suggests that there is room for both equity and excellence in our classrooms.
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 Great teaching strategy book. July 3, 2008
I like the theory and implementation strategies behind this book! It was easy to read and understand, too. I bought it for an education/ teaching methods course and I've used it to write every lesson plan, unit plan since. It relates to the idea that classrooms are made up of so many diverse types of learners that you must try and vary your instruction. (It's a lot like Howard Gardner's "Ways of Knowing".) It gives suggestions on how to add "difference" to your lessons. A lot of school corporations near where I live are adopting "DI" as well. It's catching on along with "Understanding by Design." Differentiated instruction works really well with Special Needs students, too. I recommend that anyone teaching these students at least read a copy of the book if not keep one for their own libraries!
 Differentiating Instruction November 15, 2007
0 out of 12 found this review helpful
I cannot review this item because AMAZON SCREWED UP THE ORDER - NEVER RECEIVED THE ITEM, AFTER 15 years of business - Could not get any satisfaction when trying to resolve the issue. The address on my order was correct, the same address that I have received MANY other orders at - Sorry - can see it, can't review it!!
Excellent resource and easy to read and apply... August 13, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Tomlinson presents the material in an easy to read and use format. The book is easy for the teacher to use immediately, either read one chapter at a time or all the way through. A great resource. Now if we could just get the regular education teachers to give it a try!!
Pedagogy Made Plain August 11, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Carol Tomlinson is a master at making sense out of pedagogy, making what is complex, clear, and making the principles inspirational. She is excellent at weaving together all the best practices in education to give 21st century teachers what we've been dying to hear -- that all approaches we've been taught have some merit, somewhere, for some child. The art is in the weaving it all together, which is what differentiated instruction is all about. This book is essential. Read also Understanding By Design Expanded 2nd Edition and then search for any book that differentiates specifically for your content area. Amy Benjamin is wonderful at not only English instruction and Social Studies but sampling other subjects (see Differentiated Instruction: A Guide for Middle and High School Teachersand then there's Tomlinson's and Strickland's Differentiation in Practice: A Resource Guide for Differentiating Curriculum, Grades 9-12. If you have these on your shelf, you have great foundational principles plus great specific models to work from. NCTE has also just released the first book of differentiated lessons that I've found on Shakespeare, Teaching Romeo and Juliet: A Differentiated Approach. We've still got a long way to go as a profession to providing ready-made models that teachers don't have to invent on their own, but we're getting there. If you're in English, Benjamin and the NCTE book should get you started.
a perfect match with constructivist theory! January 18, 2007
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
How to differentiate instruction in mixed-ability classrooms is essentially a very watered down version of constructivism. This is not a bad thing, in fact constructivist theorists knew others would catch on as the accountability movement grew. The book talks specifically about student centered learning and authentic assessment as well as disposes myths about what differentiated learning is and is not.
As the accountability movement matures, I believe we will see that Tomlinson and others who discuss differentiation are really part of the larger strain of constructivist theorists who are rooted in the idea of making learning meaningful through authentic class explorations of knowledge as well as authentic assessment.
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