ASSESSING DIFFERENTIATED STUDENT PRODUCTS
A protocol for development and evaluation
By Julia Roberts and Tracy Inman
A tool for developing and accessing a variety of authentic products in your classroom. The DAP tool is a protocol that simplifies the assessment process, encourages differentiation, and takes the ceiling off of learning.
CLUSTER GROUPING HANDBOOK (6 copies)
How to Challenge Gifted Students and Improve Achievement for All
By S. Winebrenner & D. Brulles
Directed to administrators and teachers but offers information that will be useful to other school personnel and parents. Contains precise descriptions of how to develop and maintain a school wide cluster grouping model, specific guidelines administrators and teachers can follow, and suggested criteria for analyzing the level of success of the model in schools. Special attention directed toward how schools can empower gifted English language learners and enfranchise them in gifted-education services. Also included are resources to help parents of gifted and high-achieving students find specific information that will improve their advocacy for the learning needs of their children.
CREATIVE CURRICULUM EXTENDERS (2 copies)
Differentiated Projects for the language Arts Classroom
Grades 3-5
By Laurie Stolmack Eatson
Easy to use source of reading and writing curriculum projects that align with national English standards and help teachers differentiate instruction. Each page has four in-depth, open end, and varied project choices, allowing students to pick a project that fits their needs, ability level, and learning style. Activity areas include, poetry, persuasive communications and autobiography, among others. With this resource, teachers can extend content, build specific skills and guide students to pursue their unique goals and passions.
DIFFERENTIATED PROJECTS FOR GIFTED STUDENTS (5 copies)
Grades 3-5
By Brenda McGee and Debbie Keiser
More than 150 ready-to–use projects in this book to get student minds working and their hands investigating as they complete fun tasks. Research oriented activities will help teachers provide differentiated learning experiences for advanced and gifted learners based on their grades 3-5 to use independently. Teacher friendly projects require few additional materials and very little guidance.
DIFFERENTIATING INSTRUCTION WITH CENTERS (3 copies)
Grades K-2
By Judith Sower and Laverne Warner
Easy to set up centers in this book teach children social skills and also help them practice important academic skills. Each center is designed to be adapted to prekindergarten through second grade inclusion classrooms. Themes covered in the centers include archaeology, camping, farms and farm supply, amusements parks, offices, travel agencies and much more. The book also describes inexpensive approaches to preparing and storing centers from year to year, as well as assessment and observation forms for teacher use.
DIFFERENTIATING INSTRUCTION WITH CENTERS (3 copies)
Grades K-8
By Julia Roberts and Julia Boggess
A resources with tons of ideas and guidance for creating unique classroom centers that will challenge gifted learners and encourage high-level independent thinking. This book discusses the use of centers in each content area, with suggestions from experts in the content areas and easy-to-implement lessons that go beyond the core curriculum.
DIFFERENTIATING INSTRUCTION WITH MENUS – ALGEBRA I/II
By Laurie Westphal
Resource for creating a student centered learning environment based on choice. This book offers 5 different types of menus that students can use to select advanced-level products instead of using traditional worksheet format. Topics addressed include properties of numbers, equations, graphing and polynomials.
DIFFERENTIATING INSTRUCTION WITH MENUS – MATH
By Laurie Westphal
Resource for student centered learning environment based on choice. Attractive reproducible menus for students to use to guide them in making decisions as to which products they will develop after studying a major concept or unit. List menus, Tic-Tac-Toe menus, 2-5-8 Menus and Game Show Menus. Specific guidelines for products, and rubrics for student assessment.
DIFFERENTIATING INSTRUCTION WITH MENUS – LANGUAGE ARTS
By Laurie Westphal
Resource for student centered learning environment based on choice. Attractive reproducible menus for students to use to guide them in making decisions as to which products they will develop after studying a major concept or unit. List menus, Tic-Tac-Toe menus, 2-5-8 Menus and Game Show Menus. Specific guidelines for products, and rubrics for student assessment.
DIFFERENTIATING INSTRUCTION WITH MENUS – SCIENCE
By Laurie Westphal
Resource for student centered learning environment based on choice. Attractive reproducible menus for students to use to guide them in making decisions as to which products they will develop after studying a major concept or unit. List menus, Tic-Tac-Toe menus, 2-5-8 Menus and Game Show Menus. Specific guidelines for products, and rubrics for student assessment.
DIFFERENTIATING INSTRUCTION WITH MENUS – SOCIAL STUDIES
By Laurie Westphal
Resource for student centered learning environment based on choice. Attractive reproducible menus for students to use to guide them in making decisions as to which products they will develop after studying a major concept or unit. List menus, Tic-Tac-Toe menus, 2-5-8 Menus and Game Show Menus. Specific guidelines for products, and rubrics for student assessment.
DIFFERENTIATING INSTRUCTION WITH MENUS – SCIENCE FOR 3-5 GRADES
By Laurie Westphal
Resource for student centered learning environment based on choice. Attractive reproducible menus for students to use to guide them in making decisions as to which products they will develop after studying a major concept or unit. List menus, Tic-Tac-Toe menus, 2-5-8 Menus and Game Show Menus. Specific guidelines for products, and rubrics for student assessment.
DIFFERENTIATION THAT REALLY WORKS (3 copies) Grades K-2
By Cheryll Adams, and Rebecca Pierce
This book provides time saving strategies and lesson ideas created and field tested by practicing professionals in their own classrooms. Provides templates that can be used to develop new lessons using each strategy. Strategies, include exit cards, choice boards, cubing, graphic organizers, learning contracts, and tiered lessons.
DIFFERENTIATION THAT REALLY WORKS (3 copies) Grades 3-5
By Cheryll Adams, and Rebecca Pierce
This book provides time saving strategies and lesson ideas created and field tested by practicing professionals in their own classrooms. Provides templates that can be used to develop new lessons using each strategy. Strategies, include exit cards, choice boards, cubing, graphic organizers, learning contracts, and tiered lessons.
DISCOVERIES – DIFFERENTIATED CURRICULUM for grades 1-3
Detailed lesson plans, reproducible activity sheets, differentiation strategies identified, standards per activity, assessment tools, guiding questions per activity.
FACES – DIFFERENTIATED CURRICULUM for grades 1-3
Detailed lesson plans, reproducible activity sheets, differentiation strategies identified, standards per activity, assessment tools, guiding questions per activity.
GIFTS – DIFFERENTIATED CURRICULUM for grades 1-3
Detailed lesson plans, reproducible activity sheets, differentiation strategies identified, standards per activity, assessment tools, guiding questions per activity.
PROJECT-BASED LEARNING FOR GIFTED STUDENTS
By Todd Stanley
A handbook for project based learning ideal for the gifted student, focusing on student choice, teacher responsibility and opportunities for differentiation. This book guides teachers to create a project-based learning environment in their classrooms, walking them step-by-step through topics and processes such a linking projects with standards, finding the right structure and creating a practical classroom environment.
SYMBOLS – DIFFERENTIATED CURRICULUM for grades 1-3
Detailed lesson plans, reproducible activity sheets, differentiation strategies identified, standards per activity, assessment tools, guiding questions per activity.
STRATEGIES FOR DIFFFERENTIATING INSTRUCTION
Best practices for the classroom
By Julia Roberts and Tracy Inman
This book offers practical strategies that allow all students to learn at appropriately challenging levels and make continuous progress by focusing on their various levels of knowledge and readiness to learn.
TEACHER’S SURVIVAL GUIDE: Differentiating Instruction in the Elementary Classroom
By Julia Roberts and Tracy Inman
Guide filled with practical information, tips for success, and advice from experienced educators that is perfect for beginning and early career teachers. Answers the most common questions about differentiation, including what it is, how teachers can set up a classroom that promotes differentiation, which topics should be differentiated, what strategies are most effective, and how teachers can access students engaged in different classroom experiences.
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