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Course 1058

Differentiated Instruction: Teaching and Reaching Every Student

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Apply this towards your professional development requirements

Tuition: $575                

This course provides you with a comprehensive set of teacher-tested strategies for differentiating your instruction and easy-to-understand frameworks for implementing them successfully in your classroom, regardless of grade level or subject area. Discover how to pinpoint the unique learning needs of all types of students and match the appropriate instructional approaches to create a learning environment that engages and motivates students to higher levels of achievement - equally.

Led by Bruce Campbell, one of nation’s foremost experts on differentiated instruction, brain-based learning and multiple intelligences; this convenient online course lets you earn Professional Development credits, hours or certificates of completion whenever and wherever you like. It combines the following three learning modules:

     1. Engage Every Student: Implementing Differentiated Instruction

     2. Brain-based Learning: Helping Students Reach Their Full Potential

     3. Using Multiple Intelligences to Reach Every Student          

At the end of this course, you’ll fully understand the relationship between brain-based learning, multiple intelligences theory and differentiated instruction. Plus, walk away with all the information, strategies and tools you need to effectively differentiate your instruction in today’s mixed ability classroom, close the achievement gap and develop all types of learners.

What You'll Learn

The one-size-fits-all approach to teaching simply isn’t as effective in today’s classroom full of diverse learners. Differentiated instruction is the key. But differentiating your instruction can be overwhelming, leaving many teachers confused where to start.

This module helps you hit the ground running with a proven framework for successfully implementing differentiated instruction in your classroom, regardless of subject area or grade level. Plus, you’ll return to your class with more than 26 strategies to ensure that every student is learning, regardless of interests, learning styles or readiness. You’ll learn:

• 4 critical reasons to differentiate your instruction
• 3 foundational ways to differentiate
• 16 instructional strategies that work in all content areas
• 3 ways to configure your classroom for DI
• How to create multiple paths into content so all students experience equally appropriate ways to learn

Highlights

Implementing Differentiated Instruction in the Classroom

• 2 major perspectives for differentiating your instruction
• 10 big picture DI strategies to fuel your teaching
• Sample situations for differentiation in the classroom
• Turn your classroom into a dynamic learning environment for diverse learners

Confidently Differentiate your Instruction in Any Subject Area

• The 5 things differentiated instruction is, and 5 things it isn’t
• Four important themes in DI research
• The what, how and why of differentiated instruction
• Understanding how tiered instruction plays into DI
• Keys to avoiding DI pitfalls that frustrate you and your students

Tough Differentiated Instruction Questions Answered

• Where do I find enough time to differentiate?
• What is the difference between “scaffolded differentiation” and “multimodal differentiation?”
• How can I use all the activities and strategies in different subject areas and at different grade levels?

What You'll Learn

How can we tap into the vast potential of our students’ brains? By gaining a better understanding of how the brain learns, we can find more effective ways to motivate, engage and meet the needs of all our students. In this module, discover the latest brain-based research and how you can use that knowledge to enhance your classroom instruction. Plus, walk away with specific examples for maximizing the learning potential of your students using brain-based learning strategies. You'll learn:

• 12 ways to use brain-based learning research in the classroom
• How to create a learning environment that fosters higher level thinking
• What parts of the brain contribute to learning and how to tap into them
• How to use emotion to increase students’ retention of information
• Keys to overcome the most difficult thing for the brain to do

Highlights

Keys to overcome the most difficult thing for the brain to do

• Proven whole-brain strategies to expand your instructional repertoire
• How to fully immerse students in an ideal educational experience
• Differentiate instruction using multiple entry points into the content
• 2 reasons why laughter facilitates learning and how to take advantage of it
• How to keep challenge high and threat low to maximize learning

How the Brain Works: Discover the Latest Brain-Based Research

• 2 factors that lead to higher level thinking in students
• Why having a strong relationship with your students is critical to learning
• Why the average classroom is too dim to maximize learning
• Understanding the power of a multi-sensory teaching approach
• How to utilize the primary-recency effect

Critical Brain-Based Learning Questions Answered

• What fosters and inhibits higher level learning
• Why the first 5-10 and last 5-10 minutes of instruction are the most important
• What happened to all that left-brain, right-brain stuff
• How does brain-based learning apply to differentiated instruction
• Explanation of guided practice and how teachers use it to give ongoing feedback and attention to students

What You'll Learn

Today’s diverse classroom calls for educators to vary their instruction based on students’ strengths, weaknesses and preferred learning styles. Doing so allows you to effectively reach and develop each student. That’s where Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences (MI) comes in.

This module walks you through the process of identifying and understanding the multiple intelligences and their relationship with your students in order to create instructional strategies and assessments that benefit all types of learners. Plus, Bruce Campbell shares the exact multiple intelligence teaching methods he's implemented in his nationally acclaimed classroom to help you enhance your lesson planning, class structure and more. You’ll discover:

• The implications MI has on curriculum, pedagogy and assessment
• 10 diverse MI classroom models you can use immediately
• A proven framework for lesson planning using multiple intelligences
• 4 guidelines for making the most of your new found MI knowledge
• 8 inspiring real student examples across multiple grade levels that demonstrate the power and potential of teaching through multiple intelligences

Highlights

Instructional Strategies Based on the Multiple Intelligences

• How to incorporate MI learning centers in any class, on any grade level
• 5 criteria for creating successful student learning groups
• How to bridge students' strengths with weaknesses for optimal learning
• Bruce Campbell’s classroom: A sample lesson, start to finish
• How to implement MI in whole-group instruction

Research and History Behind the Multiple Intelligences

• The characteristics and traits necessary for a MI
• Exercises for you to tap into your own multiple intelligences
• The relationship between brain research and MI
• Examples of savants in history that represent each intelligence
• How the multiple intelligences develop in students over time

Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom Questions Answered

• Why must educators change the way we perceive our students?
• What kinds of positive changes can MI theory produce in the classroom?
• What is the best way to determine a student’s dominant intelligence?
• Should you optimize a strength or focus on shoring up weaknesses?

The Virtual Teachers Lounge™

Check in with your peers and get answers to your questions – any time, 24/7. Taking this course will give you exclusive access to the thoughts, insights and experience of other educators and K-12 experts discussing your topics and giving you solutions and ideas for whatever is on your mind. In the Teachers' lounge, you can:

• Learn new, working strategies and solutions from other educators – live!
• Get answers to your toughest questions from top K-12 experts
• Discuss course topics with your peers and benefit from their experiences
• Share your success stories and best practices to benefit other teachers and administrators
• Get new perspectives, fresh ideas and guidance – whenever you need it.
• You can log whenever is most convenient for you, 24/7

All you have to do is sign up for this course, and you're in!

Connect with, hear from and get help from you peers.

Materials & Assessment

Lectures	Your lectures, delivered by one of the nation's leading, recognized experts on this topic, are presented in multiple parts to make listening and tracking your progress easier. You can listen to each as often as you like by playing it on your computer, downloading it to your iPod or other MP3 player, even burning it to CD. Listen wherever it is most convenient for you: at home, in your car; at the park; and whenever you like: before or after work, at night or on weekends. Many educators can complete a module in only a week.
Text Resources	Virtual text resources are downloadable and expand on the material covered in your lectures. They may include articles, web links to related materials and web sites, definitions of important terms and concepts, and a bibliography. All materials can be viewed on your computer or downloaded and printed.
Assessment	If you are taking this course for a Certificate of Completion, you do not need to complete the assessments and need only submit final projects. If you want to receive 3 Professional Development credits or 90 Professional Development hours, you must complete all the assessments and final projects.
Virtual Teachers Lounge	To gain Professional Development credits or hours for any of these three modules, you must participate in the Virtual teachers Lounge discussion for that module. If you are not seeking credits or hours, participation in the Lounge is not mandatory, but you are still welcome to connect with and share your thoughts, questions, insights and experience with your peers at any time.