1. Differentiated Instruction
Student Choice: Choice Boards

2. What is a choice board?
Choice boards offers opportunities for students to take control of their learning. Students make decisions about how they will meet class requirements. A choice board could be for a single lesson, a week-long lesson, or even a month-long period of study. You may offer as many or as few options that will work for your classroom. Steps: 1. Identify the target of the lesson. 2. Brainstorm the multiple ways students could show that knowledge. 3. Create a final optional section that requires students the opportunity for enrichment, research, and practice.

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What does it look like?

4. Differentiated Instruction
Modes, Tiers, and Grouping: Learning Style

5. Differentiating by learning styles
What learning style are you? We typically teach our style of learning. Over 30% of your learners are probably visual.

6. Visual Learners
Engaging Visual Learners Use highlighting tape in text Draw attention to posters and peripherals in room Show filmstrips or videotapes Use graphic organizers Use pointers during whole-group instruction Point out details in illustrations Use expressive gestures and body language Display word walls Visual learners do very well with, and all learners benefit from: Puzzles Drawing • Tracing over sheet protectors • Writing Estimating amounts, weights • Viewing a video or a filmstrip • Presentations using PowerPoint™ or other graphics-based digital media • Visual sequencing • Memory matching games • Marking answers in text with highlighting tape Scholastic.com

7. Auditory Learners Engaging Auditory Learners Read aloud often
Make a listening center available
Record directions, passages or chapters so students can listen and read along
Use music to teach skills
Vary the pitch and tone of your voice
Encourage peer discussions
Ask for retellings
Use Readers Theater
Auditory learners do very well with, and all learners benefit from:  Books on tape • Story retelling with puppets • Using whisper phones • Teacher-led small- group instruction • Recording an oral retelling • Headphones (with wires cut off) to eliminate distractions • Acting out character roles
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8. Kinesthetic learner
Engaging Kinesthetic and Tactile Learners Use role-playing Provide props for retelling Supply clay and other simple building materials for making models Slide skill sheets into page protectors and let students complete the exercises with a water- based pen that can be erased when they’re finished Allow a “walk-and-talk” format for peer discussion Incorporate energizing movement regularly Kinesthetic and tactile learners do very well with, and all learners benefit from: Working with clay and other malleable materials • Using pointers during independent reading • Acting out a story Using number and letter stamps • Learning sign language • Dice or card games • Experiments • Floor puzzles, envelope activities scholastic.com

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Musical Learners
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10. Differentiated Instruction
Groups and Assessments: Anchors, Sidebars, and Tiered Lesson Planning

11. These are created WITH students
What is it?
Anchors:
An anchor chart outlines or describes procedures, processes, and strategies
on a particular theme and is posted in the classroom for reference by students.
Examples:
How to check your heart rate
Comma usage
How to pick good fit books
These are created WITH students

12. What do they look like?

13. Side bars, Genius Hour and Passion Projects:
What is it?
Side bars, Genius Hour and Passion Projects:
What do you want to learn about?
How can you show what you have learned?
Who else does this??? Google

14. Tiered Lesson Planning:
What is it?
Tiered Lesson Planning:
Tasks and activities varied by readiness, learner profile, interest, or choice.