So All Can Learn

John McCarthy

doi:10.5771/9781475825725

Summary

How do we educate so all can learn? What does differentiation look like when done successfully? This practical guide to differentiation answers these questions and more. Based on national and international work, McCarthy shares how educators finally understand how differentiation can work. Bridging pedagogy and practice, each chapter addresses a key understanding for how good teaching practices can include differentiation with examples and concrete methods and strategies.

The book is constructed to differentiate for diverse educators: veteran of many years to the pre-service teacher, classroom teacher leader to administrator as instructional leader, and coaches for staff professional development:

Presents common language for staff discussing learner needs.
Provides structures for designing powerful learning experiences so all can learn.
Includes chapter reflection questions and job-embedded tasks to help readers process and practice what they learn.
Explore a supporting website with companion resources.

All learners deserve growth. All teachers and administrators deserve methods and practices that helps them to meet learner needs in an ever challenging education environment. Take this journey so all can learn.

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Copyright year: 2017
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4758-2570-1
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4758-2572-5
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 185
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Foreword: Syndee Malek No access
3. Preface No access
4. Acknowledgments No access
1. The Challenge and Promise of Differentiation No access
2. Lens on Learning No access
3. The Differentiation Relationship No access
4. Core Differentiation Language Explained No access
5. The “Real” Differentiation Relationship No access
6. Final Thoughts No access
7. Invitations to Reflection No access
1. The Dorothy Principle No access
2. Making Differentiation Visible No access
3. Assistance When Lesson Plans Run into Students No access
4. Crossroad Lessons No access
5. Final Thoughts No access
6. Invitations to Reflection No access
1. Assessment for Learning No access
2. Formative Assessment Cycle No access
3. Finding Time No access
4. Multiple Ways to Demonstrate Learning No access
5. Eliminating Assessment Fog No access
6. Final Thoughts No access
7. Invitations to Reflection No access
1. Understanding the Learners in Front of Us No access
2. Learning In and Out of Airplane Mode No access
3. Choice-Based Strategies No access
4. The Whole Student: Four Data Sources That Influence Learning No access
5. Fair Is Not Always Equal: Four Sources Feed into the Whole Learner No access
6. Final Thoughts No access
7. Invitations to Reflection No access
1. Differentiation Is Too Difficult No access
2. There Is Not Enough Time to Differentiate No access
3. The Curriculum Is Overpacked No access
4. Need to Prepare for the High-Stakes Tests by Covering All the Material No access
5. Crowded Classrooms Make Differentiation Too Difficult No access
6. How Are Learning Preferences Useful? No access
7. Final Thoughts No access
8. Invitations to Reflection No access
1. The Realms of Differentiation No access
2. Learner Voice over Student Choice No access
3. Letting Go of Control No access
4. Eliminating Airplane Mode in Education—Part Two No access
5. Teacher Growth Mind-Set Leads to Learner Voice No access
6. Creating a Culture for Student Voice No access
7. Pedagogical Needs for Student Voice No access
8. Practical Support of Student Voice No access
9. Final Thoughts No access
10. Invitations to Reflection No access
1. Readiness Guidelines No access
2. Teaching Readiness through Content No access
3. Teaching Readiness through Process No access
4. Teaching Readiness through Products No access
5. Final Thoughts No access
6. Invitations to Reflection No access
1. Interests Guidelines No access
2. Teaching Interests through Content No access
3. Teaching Interests through Processes No access
4. Teaching Interests through Products No access
5. Final Thoughts No access
6. Invitations to Reflection No access
1. Learning Preferences Guidelines No access
2. Learning Profile Cards No access
3. Teaching Learning Preferences through Content No access
4. Teaching Learning Preferences through Processes No access
5. Teaching Learning Preferences through Products No access
6. Final Thoughts No access
7. Invitations to Reflection No access
1. The Differentiation Lens No access
2. Finding Solutions No access
3. Final Thoughts No access
4. Invitations to Reflection No access
Appendix II: The EdCamp Experience: Where Voice and Choice Matter No access Pages 181 - 184
About the Author No access Pages 185 - 185