"An excellent resource for understanding the key concepts and strategies of differentiated instruction. Participants in training based on this curriculum will experience the instructional strategies firsthand, facilitating their application in the classroom."
?Maria Timmons Flores, Assistant Professor
Lewis & Clark College
"The examples are real, and any administrator can take the ideas and easily incorporate them into the professional development routine."
?Kimberly Bright, Assistant Professor of Teacher Education
Shippensburg University
"The book's major strengths are its fluency, readability, and connection of theory and practice. The activities are doable and will make sense to a classroom teacher."
?Belinda G. Gimbert, Coordinator, Transition to Teaching Program
Newport News Public Schools, VA
The expert study guide to support implementation of differentiated instruction in every classroom!
The companion book to the updated edition of the best-selling Differentiated Instructional Strategies: One Size Doesn't Fit All, this revised edition focuses on step-by-step training activities for job-embedded professional development in differentiated instruction. This workshop-friendly resource offers guidelines for small study groups or larger staff development meetings and includes:
- Research-based approaches for responding to concerns about change and for providing individualized support and mentoring
- Suggestions for coaching, observation, supervision, and evaluation of staff members? use of DI practices
- Implementation and evaluation tools to measure schoolwide progress
Covering the basic elements of differentiated instruction, this book demonstrates how administrators and staff developers can help teachers develop the capacity for change and improve the quality of instruction, curriculum, and assessment.
(20070619)
