About This Book

Matching your instructional approach to the needs and interests of every student is an overwhelming challenge unless you follow the comprehensive approach offered in this book.

The leading authority on differentiation explains common sense, classroom-proven approaches that work for teachers in any grade level:

• 8 principles that guide a differentiated classroom

• 15 instructional strategies that make it much easier for you to provide multiple learning paths for students

• Practical ways to give students options about how they learn required curriculum

• Steps to help you get started with differentiation or take it to a higher level

Topics : Differentiated Instruction

Table Of Content

Preface to the Second Edition

1. What Is a Differentiated Classroom?

2. The Underpinnings of Differentiation

3. Rethinking How We Do School—and for Whom

4. Learning Environments That Support Differentiated Instruction

5. Good Curriculum as a Basis for Differentiation

6. Teachers at Work Building Differentiated Classrooms

7. Instructional Strategies That Support Differentiation

8. More Instructional Strategies to Support Differentiation

9. How Do Teachers Make It All Work?

10. Education Leaders as Catalysts for Differentiated Classrooms

A Final Thought

Appendix: Tools to Guide Planning for Differentiated Instruction

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

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About the Authors

Carol Ann Tomlinson:

Carol Ann Tomlinson is William Clay Parrish, Jr. Professor and Chair of Educational Leadership, Foundations, and Policy and co-

director of the Institutes on Academic Diversity at the Curry School of Education, University of Virginia. She works throughout the United States and internationally with educators who want to create classrooms that are more responsive to a broad range of learners.

Tomlinson's experience as an educator includes 21 years as a public school teacher working with preschoolers, middle school students, and high school students. At the secondary level, she taught English, language arts, German, and history. She also administered district-level programs for struggling and advanced learners and was Virginia's Teacher of the Year in 1974.

At the University of Virginia, Tomlinson teaches undergraduates, master's students, and doctoral students, predominantly in the areas of curriculum design and differentiated instruction. She was named Outstanding Professor at Curry School of Education in 2004 and received an All-University Teaching Award in 2008.

In 2014's EducationNext Edu-Scholar Public Presence rankings, she was named one of the two most influential higher education voices in the United States in Psychology and the 16th most influential in all education-related fields.

She has written more than 300 books, book chapters, articles, and other materials for educators, and her books have been translated into 12 languages.

- ISBN: 9786038147122

- Author: Carol Ann Tomlinson

- Publisher: Educational Book House

- Publish Year: 2015

- Size: 21.5*28cm

- Pages number: 167