Using Your Computer to Differentiate Instruction
Gigi Kelley
1:00-2:00pm Thursday, Oct 16
From intervention to acceleration, its important to differentiate!
www.teachersourcebook.org for great resources on differentiating
Why differentiate?- includes all students
- allows teacher to reach all students some of the time
- students feel good when they can do it!
- How to do this?
- for example, record 3 podcasts for spelling tests - advanced, regular, EL list of spelling works. They don't know it's different!
- again, can podcast with Garage band (mac) or Audacity (PC)
- can put in public folder for students to download on a server, USING ipods!
- have them record reading aloud - kids don't know how to without hearing it
- kids can then self grade for accuracy when reading aloud
- need to get cheap mikes, preferably USB adaps
- can then easily share with parents, can grade at home
- or write a grant for ipods with mikes!
- describe a character in a book, can put music behind it in Garageband
- in keynote/power point, can make flashcards! Word, picture clue, then definition one after another on a slide. Then for EL, can also record voice! Works for vocab but also math!
- compare contrast on one slide with powerpoint/keynote
- when kids have a hard time conveying info on tests, can speak answers as a podcast!
- imovie and moviemaker also are great for presentation
- Pages is great for charts
- What about, entering data in a spreadsheet already, then asking kids to manipulate? Then when they get the data, they can do right away.
- Ask kids to come in 5 minutes early, pre teach, then they wear a pin that says "Ask me, I'm an expert!" - they love it!
- I want to get cameras for my classes!
- Differentiate with choice
- chart with 9 activities, instructions in each box
- while they are working on their task, pull out small groups to work on "book" stuff
- Tiered lessons
- 4 activities, but the 3rd is the standard, 4th is for those who finish early (Similar to A levels)
- read it, listen to it, draw it, write about it (then read it as a podcast!) or just do it as a podcast
- real power in letting kids self grade. And easy to send home to show how kids are doing. Send home YOUR grade and their self grade!
- web resources on differentiated instruction
- Differentiated Instruction - lots of text but informative
- Tech and Multiple Intelligences
- Also, look up Gigi Kelley on CUE.org or gigi_kelley@fsd.k12.ca.us
A differentiated classroom offers different approaches to how teachers present information, what students learn, how they learn it, and how they demonstrate what they've learned
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