Grade School

Differentiation: the basics -- Key components of effective differentiation -- Content and process matter -- Products: demonstrations of learning -- Culture: creating a classroom climate to support differentiation -- Assessment: an essential step in differentiation -- Common core state standards: the building blocks of differentiation -- A sampling of differentiation strategies -- Using technology to differentiate -- Managing a differentiated classroom -- A differentiation fable.

Teacher s Survival Guide: Differentiating Instruction in the Elementary Classroom answers the most common questions about differentiation, including what it is, how teachers can set up a classroom that promotes differentiation, which topics should be differentiated, what strategies are most effective, and how teachers can assess students engaged in different classroom experiences. Each chapter provides proven differentiation strategies along with examples of their use in elementary classrooms. From 21st-century learning to the Common Core State Standards to established differentiation models, this resource will guide teachers of children in grades K-5 to successfully differentiate instruction for all of their students.