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The Differentiation Deviser – Free Resource
Take a Fresh Look at Differentiation and Adaptive Teaching Viewed and Downloaded 215,000+ Times by Teachers Around the World 🎯 Practical, low-planning techniques for differentiation and adaptive teaching. 🎯 Easily…
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A pair of activities that use concrete, real-world examples to differentiate, creating challenge and accessibility for all
General Introduction This blog is part of my Differentiation and Adaptive Teaching Knowledge Base. I use the terms differentiation and adaptive teaching synonymously. To me, they are the same, as…
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Discover why it’s true that variety is the spice of life, and what this means for how you can differentiate activities in your classroom
General Introduction This blog is part of my Differentiation and Adaptive Teaching Knowledge Base. I use the terms differentiation and adaptive teaching synonymously. To me, they are the same, as…
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Call on the power of oracy and differentiate activity planning in your lessons through structured and meaningful discussion
General Introduction This blog is part of my Differentiation and Adaptive Teaching Knowledge Base. I use the terms differentiation and adaptive teaching synonymously. To me, they are the same, as…
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Six simple drama activities any teacher can use to help differentiate their lesson planning
General Introduction This blog is part of my Differentiation and Adaptive Teaching Knowledge Base. I use the terms differentiation and adaptive teaching synonymously. To me, they are the same, as…
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Give ownership of the learning over to your learners and watch as they self-scaffold and differentiate independently of your input
General Introduction This blog is part of my Differentiation and Adaptive Teaching Knowledge Base. I use the terms differentiation and adaptive teaching synonymously. To me, they are the same, as…
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Four easy ways you can take familiar elements of your planning and subtly tweak them, so they are better differentiated for your learners
General Introduction This blog is part of my Differentiation and Adaptive Teaching Knowledge Base. I use the terms differentiation and adaptive teaching synonymously. To me, they are the same, as…
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Unpicking the Lesson – Part 3
This blog is Part 3 of 3. Here’s a link to Part 1. And here’s a link to Part 2. In the previous blogs, we thought about lesson structure, the…
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Rethink your approach to lesson planning and let Bloom’s Taxonomy do more of the heavy lifting, so you can focus on the things that matter most to you
Bloom’s Taxonomy and Activities Bloom’s Taxonomy is an excellent basis for activities, allowing you to construct tasks for your learners that closely match their current level of mastery as well…
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Tie your outcomes to activities and build up challenge through your lessons, using Bloom’s Taxonomy as your guide
Tying Outcomes to Activities One of the ways we can make learning outcomes successful is by tying them to individual activities. Two possibilities are available to us. The first sees…