Differentiation – planning

and teaching strategies

January 2007

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Differentiation across the whole class

 Process
 Content

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Differentiation by process

 Presentation
 Language
 Activities
 Questions
 Teaching methods
 Thinking processes

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Process
Higher
levels of
thinking

Pacing and Open-

variety endedness

Process

Freedom
Discovery
of choice

Evidence
of
reasoning
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Content

Abstractnes
s

Study of
Complexity
people

Content

Organisation Variety

Study of
methods

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Grouping

 Able and mixed ability groups

 Single gender and mixed gender groups
 Friendship group
 Expert group
 Age group
 Collaborative vs co-operative work

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 Jigsaw Envoy

Allocated Goldfish
roles

Pair
Carousel
swapping

Students as Paired
teachers tutoring

Snow-
Cascade
ball
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Remember

 Challenging language
 Differentiated questions
 Homework
 E-learning

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Effective Learning

Process + content + language + questions + resources

= management = good differentiation