Tuesday Teacher Training: Differentiated Instruction
This highly informative program will provide the target audience with information regarding the philosophical underpinnings and current research that support differentiated instruction as a means of crafting the classroom to meet the needs of our increasingly diverse student populations. Participants will have an opportunity to visit a differentiated fourth grade classroom at Bonifay Elementary School, a high-performing school for the past four years. Teachers in the fourth grade class will model strategies that may be employed to foster achievement in vocabulary, reading comprehension and various other core content areas.
(Number of Hours: 10)
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Tuesday Teacher Training: Principles of Differentiated Instruction
The "nuts and bolts" of differentiation are examined in this episode. What is differentiated instruction? What prerequisite processes and procedures are necessary for managing a differentiated classroom? What are the essential questions that must be asked in order to identify varying levels of student ability, differences in content understanding, and learning preferences? What are tiered activities and how are they developed? All of these important questions are answered by Dr. Kathy Oropallo.
(Number of Hours: 10)
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Tuesday Teacher Training: Planning for Differentiation
The tools and decision making processes necessary for effective planning for differentiated instruction are carefully examined in this program. Teachers at a variety of grade levels share planning tools and describe how they utilize the tools for adapting and adjusting instruction for a variety of students. Dr. Kathy Oropallo will share strategies about how thsi concept can be accomplished.
(Number of Hours: 10)
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Tuesday Teacher Training: Differentiation: It's Personal
In this episode, Dr. Oropallo explores how teachers may utilize interest, learning styles and multiple intelligences as means for differentiating learning. An overview of the principles of learning styles and multiple intelligences is provided, and video segments will illustrate the classroom application of differentiation based on these criteria.
(Number of Hours: 10)
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Tuesday Teacher Training: Differentiation: Evaluation and Assessment
Dr. Oropallo clearly delineates the alignment that should exist among the curriculum that is written, taught and tested in this episode of Tuesday Teacher Training. The content also details how to effectively build the infrastructure for the assessment process in a differentiated classroom; where students become partners, not outsiders in the assessment process.
(Number of Hours: 10)
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Tuesday Teacher Training: Differentiation: Learning Activities
This Tuesday Teacher Training program offers educators a critical look at the importance of learning stations or centers, anchor activities and homework assignments. Dr. Kathleen Oropallo helps teachers learn how to make these activities meaningful in order to provide rigorous and relevant opportunities for differentiated learners.
(Number of Hours: 10)
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