Differentiated Instructional Management

Work Smarter, Not HarderManaging Differentiated Models

Ten Differentiated Models

The models being presented are frameworks for managing instruction in a differentiated classroom.

Each model organizes strategies and activities.

Differentiated Models

The models are: Adjustable Assignment ModelProblem-Based ModelProject-Based ModelMultiple Intelligence Planning ModelTriarchic Teaming ModelActivity Analysis ModelStudent-Directed Learning ModelTeacher-Directed Learning ModelNested Activity ModelTreaded Model

Adjustable Assignment Model

Planning tool that uses a grid with special features to plan assignments according to the diverse needs of students.

A formal or informal preassessment identifies each student’s background knowledge and experiences in relation to the standard, information, concept or skill.

It is the most effective way to identify learners’ needs.

Three steps to complete the Adjustable Assignment Model

1. Record on the grid the student’s knowledge level: beginning, approaching mastery, or high mastery of concepts or skills.

2. List what learners on each level need to know.

3. Teacher identifies the most effective instructional strategies for each level and lists for each group, so all students learn.

Problem-Based Model

Provides students with an opportunity to select and solve an identified problem from classroom through international concerns.

The responsibilities, roles and assignments are identified and assigned to individuals and/or small groups.

Tasks are designed to teach standards, skills, and concepts where students can learn to become critical and creative thinkers.

The Value of the Problem-Based Model

Problems are solved by working teams in the business world and in daily situations.

Students learn how to address and solve minor and major problems throughout their lives in any situation.

Project-Based Model

A project is an assignment that takes a student into an in-depth study to learn more on a topic of interest.

A project may be assigned to a total class, small groups, partners, or individual student.

It is geared to the age and interest of the student so it requires little adult supervision.

Instructional Benefits of the Project-Based Model

Students learn more about an area of interest from the content standards.

More students actively engaged in learning and can learn the process as well as the content information.

The project-based model honors the different ways student learn through their favorite modalities, genres, styles, or intelligences.

Learners have choices in the ways they present the products or project information.

Multiple Intelligence Planning Model

The Multiple Intelligence Planning Model is based on the work of Howard Gardner at Harvard University.

The intelligences are verbal/linguistic, musical/rhythmic, logical/mathematical, bodily/kinesthetic, visual/spatial, naturalist, intrapersonal, and interpersonal.

According to Gardner, intelligence is the ability to solve a problem, to create a problem to solve, and to contribute to one’s culture.

Using the Multiple Intelligence Model

Each individual has 3 or 4 intelligences that are strong areas. More needs are met when individual ways of learning are addressed.

Consciously label the targeted and supporting intelligences when planning activities and strategies.

Label the the strategies and activities, not the students. Make the learning challenging and interesting with multiple intelligence planning.

Multiple Intelligence Model

Avoid planning around the teachers dominant intelligences and preferences. Plan to meet the student’s needs or strengths.

Give opportunities for the interpersonal learner who needs to work with others and the intrapersonal learner who needs time to process and work alone with information.

Triarchic Teaming Model

Based on Robert Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory of Intelligence.

Sternberg states that the successful intelligences are analytical, creative, and practical.

A problem solving team should be composed of members who are strong in the different intelligences.

Activity Analysis Model

The activity analysis model is a guide to selecting and planning an activity for an individual or a group of students.

This model helps the teacher make more accurate and appropriate decisions when designing an activity for a group of learners.

Questions to Guide the Activity

What are you going to teach?

Who needs it?

When are you going to teach it?

Where will the student(s) work productively?

How will the activity engage the student?

Student-Directed Learning Model

The student-directed learning model empowers the learner because the responsibilities for learning are turned over to students.

The goal of the model is to teach each student to be productive while working and learning with a partner, in a group or independently.

Benefits and Management of Student-Directed Learning Model The model develops learners who become

self-initiators, and reflective thinkers. Students learn to take responsibility for

their own learning and to occupy their time wisely.

Management requires proper assessment, tasks requiring little assistance, and time for reflection.

Teacher-Directed Learning Model

This model is a structured approach to teaching a specific skill or procedure for mastery.

The teacher becomes the information disseminator.

There are five steps in this approach: orientation, presentation, and structured, guided, and independent practice.

Nested Activity Model

This is a model designed to integrate curriculum. The nested activity analyzes the value of a chosen

activity. Lessons are usually multifaceted, teaching more

than one standard, skill, or intelligence at one time.

This model enables the student to recognize the activity, the standards, the social skills and the thinking skills.

Threaded Model

The Treaded Model is a planning tool for integrating the curriculum.

A specific standard, skill, or concept is identified as the target for instruction.

This model gives students opportunities to view information through different lenses in various subjects and situations and to use it in various ways.

Managing the Treaded Model

Target an area that needs more work by analyzing test data, grade-level performance, previous trouble spots, or teacher concerns.

Address the same standard, skill or concept in different lessons, activities, and subject areas.

This model can be used with a team and across grade levels.

Differentiated Models That Can Create Success

There are a variety of differentiation models that a teacher may select to use in a classroom.

It calls for a careful analysis of your teaching goal and desired student growth.

Responsive educators must go to great lengths to find the right model to meet the needs of their students.