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Anchor Activity Checking Out the DI Brochures

Differentiated As we wait for people to arrive:• Select a brochure to examine

• From Anchor Activity (Handout 1) select Option A, B or C

•Complete the Anchor Activity alone or with others

Grades 7- 8 Revised Jan. ‘09

Grades 7 -12 New Oct. ‘08

Differentiated Instruction (DI) in Secondary Mathematics

St Roch S.S.Tuesday, October 12th

Day 1

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Mathematics Professional Learning Menu

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Let’s Create a Sacred Space

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Prayer: Different PathsYou, the one

from whom on different pathsall of us have come.

To whom on different pathsall of us are going.

Make strong in our hearts what unites us.Build bridges across all that divides us.United make us rejoice in our diversity.

At one in our witness to your peace,A rainbow of your glory. Amen.

Agenda – Day 1Minds On• Anchor Activity – Table Profile• Welcome/Prayer• Ministry DI Overview• Learning GoalsAction• Exploring the Scrapbook• DI Framework• Exploring the DI Resources

– Scavenger Hunt– Explore the TLXs– Videos

• Going Deeper with DIConsolidation• Choice Board: Sternberg Triarchic Intelligences• Stand up, Hand up, Pair Up: What is DI?• Before Day 2 …• Exit Ticket /Dismissal

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Student Success/Learning to 18 Differentiated Instruction Professional Learning Strategy

- a province-wide strategy to build the capacity of educators in Grades 7-12 to find out about their learners and respond to their diverse needs by differentiating instruction

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Context: Core Priorities

High Levels of Student Achievement

Reducing the Gaps in Student Achievement

Increased Public Confidence in Our Publicly Funded Schools

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DI Professional Learning Strategy

The heart of school improvement rests in improving daily teaching and learning practices in schools, including engaging students and their families.

Ben Levin (2008). How to Change 5000 Schools, Harvard Education Press: Cambridge, Mass.

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Goals of the DI Professional Learning Strategy

• To increase the instructional knowledge and skills of

educators of grades 7-12 so that they can meet the diverse needs of all students;

• To build awareness of Differentiated Instruction as a framework for planning and implementing effective instruction, assessment and evaluation practices as outlined in the Ontario curriculum;

• To facilitate and support job-embedded professional learning opportunities through collaborative inquiry.

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A New Definition of Professional Learning

Good teaching occurs when educators on teams are involved in a cycle in which they analyze data, determine student and adult learning goals based on that analysis, design joint lessons that use evidence-based strategies, have access to coaches for support in improving their classroom instruction, and then assess how their learning and teamwork affects student achievement.

From: A New Definition, JSD, Fall 2009

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Key Messages

Ministry directions, initiatives and policies are aligned and integrated (e.g., DI, Growing Success, Learning for All)

KNOWING

DOING

Assessment drives differentiated instruction; professional learning about differentiated instruction and assessment should happen at the same time.

Deepen and widen implementation with a focus on classrooms – in all subject areas by all teachers

Integrating literacy, mathematics, assessment and evaluation and differentiated instruction will ensure alignment of and support for your work in improving student achievement

Catholic Board Learning Plan (CBLP) 2010-2013

• SMART Goal: Increasing student achievement on EQAO assessments (3, 6 & 9) by 5% by 2013

• Foundational Practices:– Ontario Curriculum and ministry support documents are the primary sources

for all mathematics instruction. – The mathematical processes described in the Ontario Curriculum are used

throughout all mathematics instruction. – A minimum of 60 minutes is provided daily for mathematical instruction. – The diverse learning needs of EACH student are supported by mathematical

instruction, assessment and evaluation that are varied in nature and provide multiple opportunities to demonstrate learning.

– The comprehensive list of strategies that relate to effective mathematics instruction are used regularly.

• Expected Practice: By June 2013, all mathematics instruction will be delivered using a 3-part lesson model

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Corners Differentiated

• Go to the corner that best describes you and form groups of three

• Share with the participants in your corner:– Courses you teach– Prior experience with DI– What is one fun thing you did this summer?– Where do you see yourself with DI?– What adjective would you use to describe your comfort

with DI?

Learning GoalsBy the end of the two days, you will be able to…

1.Describe the connections between the elements of the DI framework

2.Know about, understand and plan for the use of several DI resources

3.Develop effective questions to provoke and expose thinking

4.Create classroom resources based on the DI framework (i.e., three-part lessons)

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Agenda – Day 1Minds On• Anchor Activity – Table Profile• Welcome/Prayer• Ministry DI Overview• Learning Goals

Action• Exploring the Scrapbook• DI Framework• Exploring the DI Resources

– Scavenger Hunt– Explore the TLXs– Videos

• Going Deeper with DIConsolidation• Choice Board: Sternberg Triarchic Intelligences• Stand up, Hand up, Pair Up: What is DI?• Before Day 2 …• Exit Ticket /Dismissal

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Anchor Activity:Create a Table Profile

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Use the DI Scrapbook to determine: • Your environmental learning

preferences (p.11)• Your preferred Triarchic

Intelligence (p.10 or p. 16)• Where you are in your use of DI on

the DI continuum (p.25)Record your information on the

Table ProfileWhat other types of information can be noted on a ‘class’ profile?

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Marzano’s Categories of Instructional Strategies

Choice BoardCubingLearning CentresLearning ContractsRAFTsTieringScrapbook p.17-19

Scrapbook p.20-24Educator’s Guide p.27

Respectful Tasks

Shared Responsibility of

Learning

Flexible Learning Groups

Choice

Scrapbook p.6

2010 Suite of DI Resources

• 2010 Educator’s Package:– Educator’s Guide– Reference Cards– Scrapbook– CD– DVD

• Differentiated Instruction Teaching/ Learning Examples

• Karen Hume e-bookAccess on school

computers:Start Menu Programs Curriculum swta

• GAINS website (www.edugains.ca)

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Exploring the DI Educator’s Package

Individually Table Group

• Select a component of the package to examine

• Identify 3-5 things about the component to describe for the group

• Describe your component to the group. emphasizing the handout topics.

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DI Professional Learning Strategy

Historical Scan of DI Supports and Resources√ Brochures – (2007– 08) √ Educator’s Package (Fall 2007)√ Package Enhancements (Fall 2008)√ Teaching/Learning Examples (2009 and 2010) √ 2010 Educator’s Package √ 2010 Secondary DVD and Facilitator’s Guide √ Products from DI project sites Grades 7-10 (edugains)

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DI Teaching/Learning Examples

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Teaching/Learning Examples (TLX)

DI Teaching/Learning ExamplesGrade 7 and 8 (various subjects)

Grades 9 and 10 • Math (1 grade 9 applied and 2 grade 10 applied) • Business Studies• Civics (Grade 10) • Computer Studies (Grade 10) • Cooperative Education • Guidance and Career Education • English• Geography (Grade 9) • History (Grade 10) • Science• Technological Education

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Take 5

Take a few moments to consolidate your understanding as you read over pages 1- 7 in the 2010 Differentiated Instruction Educator’s Guide

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Looking for DI

Before Viewing• Use numbered heads to assign

key features from page 8 of Scrapbook

Individually • Read about your key feature: - in the Educator’s Guide (pp.30-32)

- on the Reference Card Key Features

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Video Segment

During Viewing• Record evidence of your key feature on the

Looking for DI Handout

After Viewing• Explain your key feature to your group and

share your evidence

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View Video

• Centennial S.S. Belleville

• St Mary’s S.S. Peterborough

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Differentiated Instruction StructuresWays of Organizing for DI

DI Structures• Tiering• Learning Contracts• Learning Centres/Stations• RAFTs• Choice Boards• Cubing

DI by Readiness Choose one structure that you want to learn about.

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Differentiation by . . . Learning Centers

• Go to the Learning Centre for your structure • Read about the DI structure in the:

- Scrapbook (pp. 17-19)) - Educator’s Guide (pp. 28-29)

• Analyse an example in your handout• Discuss the key features of this DI structure and

how it could be used in one of your classes.

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Minds On• Anchor Activity – Table Profile• Welcome/Prayer• Ministry DI Overview• Learning GoalsAction• Exploring the Scrapbook• DI Framework• Exploring the DI Resources

– Scavenger Hunt– Explore the TLXs– Videos

• Going Deeper with DI

Consolidation• Choice Board: Sternberg Triarchic Intelligences• Stand up, Hand up, Pair Up: What is DI?• Before Day 2 …• Exit Ticket /Dismissal

Agenda – Day 1

Choice Board:Sternberg Triarchic Intelligences

Using the following 9 words:

framework respectful tasks ongoing assessmentresponsive flexible groupings building communitydeliberate choice cubing

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ANALYTICALCreate a mind map (using paper and pen or SMART

Ideas on computer)

CREATIVECreate a storyboard or a

poem

PRACTICALChoose a real-world situation and write a

paragraph

Be prepared to share upon completion

Rally Question 1:What is your understanding of DI?

Rally Question 2:What were you able to accomplish today?

Rally Question 3:What do you plan to do tomorrow?

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Stand Up, Hand Up, Pair Up

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When all is said and done, the purpose of differentiated instruction is to work smarter as teachers – so that our students work smarter as students. The point is not to be overwhelmed by a myriad of instructional and assessment strategies but to be selective and purposeful in our use of them.

( from Differentiated Instruction Teacher’s Guide – Getting to the core of teaching and learning, 2007)

Day 1 Conclusion

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Before Day 2 …

• Begin to create a class profile (Educator Guide p. 18) for one of your classes using one of :– Triarchic Intelligences (Scrapbook p. 16)– VAK Inventory (Karen Hume BLM on wiki)– Multiple Intelligences (Scrapbook p.16)

• Try a DI structure strategy in one of your classes (Scrapbook p. 17-19)

• Come prepared to share both experiences

• Before you leave, complete an exit card

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Exit Card

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• Maggie Boss– Consultant Differentiated Instruction

• Dwight Stead– Mathematical Literacy Consultant 7-12

Contacts