Implementation Workshop: Full or Half Days 

These differentiation workshops go a step beyond orientation in providing teachers time and guidance to explore the relationship between the uniformity of curricular demands and uniqueness of students’ learning preferences and readiness. 

During these full or half day sessions, teachers should be prepared to work with upcoming content materials to develop goals, assessments and lessons that will ensure engagement and achievement for every student in their classroom. These workshops are repeatable or available as a series of summer workshops.

Workshop Options:

• Structuring differentiated unit and lesson planning
  • Foundational learning: Accomodating background knowledge
  • Process learning: Fostering and challenging learning preference
  • Distributive learning: allowing interest levels to guide study
• Designing opportunities for problem or project based learning
  • Creating content projects
  • Merging academic and authentic learning opportunities
  • Assessment of PBL
• Developing differentiated assessment
  • Assessment Management for Formative Assessment
  • Assessment Rubrics: Formative & Summative
  • Contract Grading: Summative
• Integrating technology to differentiate and engage
  • Podcasts
  • Digital Story-telling
  • Creating content and/or classroom wikis
  • Streaming video: easier than you think!
  • Using & updating web-quests
  • Enhancing academics with cell phones