November 1, 2007 (class #11)

Class outline:

4:20-4:30	Quick questions and quandaries. Announcements: Your interview assignment is due next week at the start of class. Make sure you read the assignment description and grading criteria carefully. The readings assigned or next week might be good to use for citation in your paper. Come to class prepared to discuss the results of your interview. Come to office hours or e-mail me with ANY questions!
4:30-5:20	Interactive presentation: Differentiated instruction
5:20-5:30	Break
5:30-5:50	Learning style reflection & report out
5:50-6:10	Continue presentation on differentiated instruction
6:10-6:30	Small group activity (Note: you might want to look on this web site ahead of time for ideas of different instructional strategies: http://www.readingquest.org/strat/home.html)
6:45-6:50	Report out
6:45-6:50	Minute paper OR fill out the bottom 1/2 of this 3-2-1- chart: http://www.readingquest.org/pdf/321.pdf

Overheads:

• PowerPoint

Additional Resources:

• This is a chapter that provides a good introduction to multiple intelligences:

http://www.ascd.org/portal/site/ascd/template.chapter/menuitem.b71d101a2f7c208cdeb3ffdb62108a0c/?chapterMgmtId=b44c177a55f9ff00VgnVCM1000003d01a8c0RCRD
• Go to the CAST web site for information on Universal Design for Learning (http://www.cast.org/research/udl/index.html and http://www.cast.org/teachingeverystudent/) and Differentiated Instruction (http://www.cast.org/publications/ncac/ncac_diffinstruc.html)
• Go to the Center for Uni versal Design at North Carolina Unviersity: http://www.design.ncsu.edu/cud/
• To access more information about their 7 principles, clickk here: http://www.design.ncsu.edu/cud/about_ud/udprinciples.htm
• Information on Ron Mace, the architect credited for developing the term "universal design: http://www.ihcd-ae.org/adp/profiles/1_mace.php

Web sites for teachers to help develop differentiated lesson plans:

• http://www.frsd.k12.nj.us/rfmslibrarylab/di/differentiated_instruction.htm
• http://www.ericdigests.org/2001-2/elementary.html
• http://www.k8accesscenter.org/training_resources/readingdifferentiation.asp
• http://www.k8accesscenter.org/training_resources/mathdifferentiation.asp
• http://www.scusd.edu/gate_ext_learning/differentiated.htm