Differentiated Learning and Instruction

Learning communities reaching the
unique needs of every learner.

The WiT Committee: Rosemarie Janssen, Kathleen O'Hanley, and Sue Jackson.  School teams are invited to attend the staff development series on differentiated instruction. This set of workshops assists in answering the professional learning communities third question: "What to do when students don't learn?". Differentiating instruction enables teachers to do "Whatever it Takes" to answer the question. Participating school teams will receive books, ideas and strategies to enable their students to have greater academic success.

• Further Resources for Differentiating
• Rethinking Classroom Assessment with Purpose in Mind, Assessment for Learning (Ministry of Education Website, Chapter 3)
  http://www.wncp.ca/assessment/rethink.pdf
• Assessment for Learning: Embedding and Extending; Scottish Executive Education Department (SEED)  http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/assess/images/
  Assessment%20for%20Learning%20version%202vp_tcm4-385008.pdf
  
• Personal Learning Planning in Scotland 1998-2005, Pamela Robertson, (Dec. 2005)
  http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/assess/images/PLP%
  20review%20paper2%201%20DEC%202005vp_tcm4-384295.pdf

Website Resources for Differentiating

• The Theory of Multiple Intelligences:

www.edwebproject.org/edref.mi.intro.html

• Multiple Intelligences & Multimedia:

www.tecweb.org/styles/gardner.html

• Online Projects:

http://surfaquarium.com/IT/project.htm

• Virtual Fieldtrips

www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/

• Intersect Digital Library, a web site exploring universal design examples of enhanced text for middle and high school aged students.

http://intersect.uoregon.edu/DigitalLibrary/default.html