Differentiated Instruction: A Guide for Middle and High School Teachers

by Amy Benjamin

Overview

This book demonstrates how to make your classroom more responsive to the needs of individual students with a wide variety of learning styles, interests, goals, cultural backgrounds, and prior knowledge. Focusing on grades 6 through 12, this book showcases classroom-tested activities and strategies.

Differentiated Instruction: A Guide for Middle and High School Teachers shows you how to vary your instruction so you can respond to the needs of individual learners. The concrete examples in this book demonstrate how you can use differentiated instruction to clarify:
• the content (what you want students to know and be able to do)
• the process (how students are going to go about learning the content)
• and the product (how they will show you what they know.)

This book is uniquely interactive. It features "Reflections" to help you understand your teaching style and guide you towards developing habits of mind which result in effective differentiated instruction.

Also included is a chapter on teaching students whose native language is not English.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781930556393
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/09/2002
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	8.25(w) x 11.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Amy Benjamin teaches English at Hendrick Hudson High School in Montrose, New York. She has been recognized by the New York State Council of English Teachers as a Teacher of Excellence. She offers workshops and courses across the country and is the author of three other books published by Eye On Education.

Table of Contents

Foreword, About the Author, How to Use This Book, 1. Foundations, 2. Where Do I Start?, 3. The Language of Differentiated Instruction, 4. Differentiating Instruction for Reading the Textbook, 5. Differentiating Instruction for Independent Reading, 6. Differentiating Instruction for Learning New Words, 7. Differentiating Instruction Through the Arts, 8. Differentiating Instruction for English Language Learners, 9. Administrative Support for Differentiated Instruction, 10. Case Studies, Conclusion