"Teaching Up" to Reach Each Learner (Quick Reference Guide)

by Carol Ann Tomlinson

Overview

Learn the basics of "teaching up"—an instructional approach built on the conviction that all students are smart and benefit from being taught as "smart kids" are taught. Teaching up means planning lessons to engage and challenge the most eager and advanced learners and then providing varied scaffolds that allow all learners to access those lessons and complete them successfully. In a classroom where the teacher teaches up, every student enjoys a rich and relevant curriculum and does complex and important work.

In this quick reference guide, bestselling author Carol Ann Tomlinson makes the case for teaching up and explains its key components. You'll find guidance to help you maximize the meaningfulness of required curriculum, strategies for planning and scaffolding instruction, examples of teaching up from different grade levels and content areas, and tips for getting started and sustaining success.

Students arrive in our classrooms with a range of accomplishments, interests, strengths, and needs. Teaching up is the practical, ethical, and equitable response to this reality—and an essential engine for effective differentiation.

8.5" x 11" 3-panel foldout guide (6 pages), laminated for extra durability and 3-hole-punched for binder storage.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781416632320
Publisher:	ASCD
Publication date:	09/21/2023
Pages:	6
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Carol Ann Tomlinson is William Clay Parrish Jr. Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia's School of Education and Human Development. The author of more than 300 publications, she works throughout the United States and internationally with educators who want to create classrooms that are more responsive to a broad range of learners.