Teachers at the Ridley School District

Differentiated Instruction - Links to the internet

We try to be user friendly.  If you have any problems using this page, please contact me Antonia.A.D'Onofrio@widener.edu

This site was created at the University of Virginia and sponsored by the American Society for Curriculum Development.  It is  the first in a series of  lessons related to differentiated instruction. You can vary the Internet address to find Lessons 2 and 3, and so on, by changing the URL word "differentiated1.html "to "differentiated2.html" in your browser.  This simple change will take you to other pages in the series.  But you will need to have a password.

A superlative site!  A high quality web production. The site introduces an educator to the use of technology to differentiate instruction.  On the left of the web page there is an index.  The index contains many valuable links, including links to information regarding teacher attitudes, learning strategies, how to integrate technology, how to integrate outcomes, and even sample lesson plans.

A technology coordinator in a K-12 district created this site on the Internet.  The site has an informative overview followed by a number of extremely useful links to related information on the web.  Some of the topics that are linked on the site include: Differentiating Instruction for Advanced Learners in the Mixed-Ability Middle School Classroom ; Mapping a route toward differentiated instruction ; Gifted Learners and the Middle School: Problem or Promise? ; Leadership for Differentiated Classrooms; What Does An Inclusive Classroom Look Like?; The Differentiated Classroom Responding to the Needs of All Learners ; Gifted Learners Too: A Possible Dream?; **Other Resources

This site was created by the Montgomery County schools and is full of teacher resources about and related to differentiated instruction.  Consider following links to some of these topics once you get to the main page: Brain-based Learning Research; Funderstanding:Learning Theories; Learning Styles & Multiple Intelligence; Masters4teachers; Metacognition; Online Learning Styles Questionnaire; Research by R. & G. Caine; Understanding the Brain;  Educators Seek to Apply Brain Research; Differentiating Instruction 1;    Differentiated Instruction 2; Preparing Teachers for Differentiated Instruction;  A publication list.

This site was created by, and is supported by, the American Society for Curriculum Development (ASCD).  It presents tutorials on differentiated instruction.  The web pages work like power point presentations.  However, unlike power point presentations, it is possible to use the site interactively and to navigate through a number of enriching and informing web pages.  Not only is there an index on the left hand side of the site's page that links you to several important areas of instructional design (for example, reflective questioning), but it is possible on many pages to link directly to articles and other detailed information published by ASCD.