Designing A Differentiated Lesson Plan—From Scratch!

Practical tips, tricks, and techniques that take you from a blank lesson plan to a well-planned and successfully differentiated unit.

• Meet the diverse needs of your students, including gifted, challenged, English language learners, ADHD, and others.
• Reach ALL your students with your lessons by understanding the essential elements and the sequence of differentiated lesson design.
• Create effective teaching responses by identifying current and potential instructional issues that arise in diverse classrooms.
• Meaningfully incorporate assessment data in your lesson planning to match instruction to each student’s needs.
• Save time and reduce anxiety by dismissing differentiated instruction myths.
• Use the professional terminology and tenets of differentiated instruction to communicate clearly in discussions with colleagues.
• Increase the effectiveness of your own lesson plans and those of your colleagues by critiquing and revising.
• Help meet the needs of students outside your classroom by coaching cohorts in the development of their differentiated lessons.

Presenter: Rick Wormeli
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