Whole Schooling
The Journey Towards Schools
Where Diverse Students Learn Together Well
CHAPTER 4
Planning Individualized Differentiation
Learning tools. Tools for analysis, discussion, and planning you may use in class, professional development, and in your own practice as a teacher.
- Student profile. Activity Tool 4-2 is a blank student profile. This can be used as a tool in a school for recording and thinking about the characteristics of a student. It may also be used with case studies to prompt discussion.
- Class profile. Use Activities Tool 4-3 to have participants conduct an analysis of a classroom and discuss the relationship of teaching style to needs of the students.
- Collaborative consultation action planning. Activity Tool 4-4 is a blank collaborative consultation form that can be used in a local school and as a basis to discuss students prompting discussion and dialogue regarding how best to meet student needs.
- Curriculum matrix and daily schedule. Activity Tools 4-5 and 4-6 are respectively a blank curriculum matrix form and daily schedule. Ask participants to develop a curriculum matrix and daily schedule for a case study student.
- Individualized differentiation. Use Activity Tool 4-8 and ask participants to sketch learning activities, problems a student is having, and designing solutions to solve the problem.
- Individualized differentiation plan. Use Activity Tool 4-9 to have participants develop a plan for assuring effective inclusion for a student they know.
- Individualized Education Program. Activity Tool 4-10 is a blank IEP form that can be used with case studies and in helping individuals understand the components of an IEP.