Differentiated Instruction: A Guide for Elementary School Teachers / Edition 1

by Amy Benjamin

Overview

This book demonstrates how to make your classroom more responsive to the needs of individual students with a wide variety of learning styles, interests, goals, cultural backgrounds, and prior knowledge. Focusing on grades K through 6, it showcases classroom-tested activities and strategies. Differentiated Instruction: A Guide for Elementary School Teachers shows you how to vary your instruction so you can respond to the needs of individual learners. The examples and classroom activities in this book focus on
- reading fiction - reading non-fiction - vocabulary
- spelling - penmanship - map and globe skills
- math - science - the arts
Also included is coverage of
- differentiated instruction for English language learners
- brain-based learning and multiple intelligences
- the impact of differentiated instruction on high stakes testing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781930556553
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/27/2003
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	8.25(w) x 11.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Foundations; Chapter 2 Where Do I Start?; Chapter 3 The Language of Differentiated Instruction; Chapter 4 Language Arts:; Chapter 5 Teaching for Abstract Thinking; Chapter 6 Concept Mapping; Chapter 7 Teaching Question-Making; Chapter 8 Differentiating Instruction for English Language Learners; Chapter 9 Differentiating Instruction Through the Arts; Chapter 10 Paradigms for Differentiated Instruction; Chapter 11 Model Differentiated Instruction Lessons;