Middle school teachers can follow a straightforward method that facilitates customization of support for students.

Q: What do “alternative assessments” mean? When we want to know what students know, we give them a test or a quiz. However, these forms of testing don’t always reflect the application of the skills ...

“Differentiated instruction”—the process of identifying students’ individual learning strengths, needs, and interests and adapting lessons to match them—has become a popular approach to helping ...

Differentiated instruction is an approach to teaching and learning that provides challenging and engaging instructional experiences to all students. Educators in differentiated classrooms use student ...

In the middle schools where I have taught, differentiated instruction is understood in multiple ways. The veteran educators tend to call it a “new name for the same old things.” Teachers in the middle ...

Personalized learning. Differentiated instruction. Describe the differences in thirty seconds. Having trouble? The two terms are used with increasing frequency in education, often interchangeably. But ...

Meeting the diverse learning needs of students has long challenged educators who recognize that each student processes information differently and progresses at their own pace. Technology offers ...

As 21st-century classrooms continue to evolve, the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) Americas is at the forefront of implementing differentiated instruction, a teaching approach that ...

UbD and DI : an essential partnership -- What really matters in teaching? (The students) -- What really matters in learning? (Content) -- What really matters in planning for student success? -- ...