With student diversity growing dramatically and schools facing mounting pressure to boost achievement, differentiated instruction—the craft of accommodating and building on students’ individual ...

In the middle schools where I have taught, differentiated instruction is understood in multiple ways. The veteran educators tend to call it a “new name for the same old things.” Teachers in the middle ...

When we facilitate professional development events, there’s often a common theme: teachers understand the importance of active STEM teaching and learning, but don’t always know how to implement it in ...

Differentiated classroom instruction has always been part of U.S. public education, but today’s focus on tailoring each lesson for each student can overwhelm teachers. There are, however, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract University educators increasingly face groups or classes of students with diverse academic levels, challenging a ‘one size fits all’approach ...

Q: What do “alternative assessments” mean? When we want to know what students know, we give them a test or a quiz. However, these forms of testing don’t always reflect the application of the skills ...

Teachers often perceive an inherent conflict between "differentiated instruction," which emphasizes attention to variance in students' readiness levels, interests, and learning profiles, and "the ...