Differentiated+Instruction

=Differentiated Instruction Resources from NWEA January 2013 training= Poway Unified School District For the Teachers

=Search by Reading Level= “Everyone has different reading abilities. Some people searching the web are university professors and others are 5 year old children. Twurdy has been created to provide people with access to search results that suit their own readability level.” –[|**Twurdy**]


 * [|Twurdy]** is a search engine (powered by Google) that indicates the reading level of each page in a search result. Pages are given a reading level score, and results are color coded to make it easy for a user to recognize which results are likely to be most helpful.

=A Blog Entry on Scaffolding Strategies= Great ideas for supporting student learning, as well as the difference between differentiated instruction and scaffolding.

=A Planning Process for Differentiated Instruction with Digital Tools= By Thomas DeVere Wolsey Differentiating instruction is a time-tested way of thinking about meeting students’ needs as they make progress toward achievement or learning targets. Differentiation is an elegant mindset that suggests to teachers a framework that permits them to engage students while focusing on learning results, and digital technologies offer many opportunities to differentiate instruction in meaningful ways. However, differentiating instruction takes a concerted planning effort on our parts as teachers and teacher educators. This is especially so as we develop a mindset that differentiation can be effective. In this post, I propose a three-phase approach to planning differentiated instruction: [|Click here to read entire article.]
 * 1) **Where do we start planning for differentiated instruction with technology,**
 * 2) **What are considerations for who we teach, what we teach, and how we plan?**
 * 3) **How do I put it all together?**