What Is a “Differentiated” Classroom?
Brought to you by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development Making It Meaningful • Mrs. Wiggins assigns students to spelling lists based on a pretest, not the assumption that all 3rd graders should work on List Three. • Mr. Owen matches homework to student need whenever possible, trying to ensure that practice is meaningful for everyone. • Ms. Jernigan only occasionally teaches math to the whole class at once. More often, she uses a series of direct instruction, practice, and application groups. She works hard to give everyone “equal time” at an appropriate entry point of instruction, matching practice work to student need. She also regroups students for real-world math applications so they hear a variety of voices in their journey to think mathematically. • Ms. Enrico offers students a variety of options when it’s time to create the final product for a unit. She bases the options on students’ interests so they have the chance to link what they’ve learned with somethin
