How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed Ability Classrooms (2nd Edition) (ASCD) | 
 enlarge | Author: Carol Ann Tomlinson
Publisher: Assn for Supervision & Curric Development (ASCD)
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Edition: 2
Pages: 128
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Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 7.8 x 0.3
ISBN: 013119500X
Dewey Decimal Number: 371
EAN: 9780131195004
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Publication Date: May 7, 2004
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Book Description
Just as students come in different sizes and shapes and with differing cultural backgrounds, interests, and abilities, so do teachers face challenges in "fitting" instruction to the students in their classrooms. This book provides practical guidance in addressing the diverse needs of students in mixed- ability classrooms. Differentiated instruction provides multiple approaches to content, process, and product; and it is a blend of whole-class, group, and individual instruction. The author states: "My goal here is to help teachers determine what differentiated instruction is, why it is appropriate for all learners, how to plan for it, how to manage it, how to help parents and students prepare for differentiated classrooms, and how to assess student progress." She describes actual classrooms that use strategies for managing differentiated classrooms and provides detailed how-to's for lesson planning. An appendix lists strategies, including pretesting for competence ("compacting"), independent projects, interest centers, and tiered assignments.
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 mixed ability July 9, 2008
Toby Bindler (pa.)
I like the book very much.
Tomlinson gives lots of examples and it is written in layman's terms so it is easy to read.
I felt the sender should have checked the book as it had post-its in it and several passages were highlighted.
Great teaching strategy book. July 3, 2008
Lewis Henry (Indiana, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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
Allie (Germany)
0 out of 15 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
S. Southerland (Texico, NM)
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
Madelyn Fair (Durham, NC)
3 out of 4 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.
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