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Why teachers should consider differentiated instruction

Neo LMS

While it’s definitely easier to treat students the same in the classroom — after all, there is but one teacher to 30 students (more or less) — the best teachers are those who understand that students are not the same. And act accordingly, by differentiating instruction to better meet their learning needs. Carol Ann Tomlinson.

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Best Back to School Websites and Tools for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Information collected through formative assessment can be used operationally to inform your teaching methodology and to design remedial and differentiated instructional strategies going forward. This post originally appeared in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning ( www.educatorstechnology.com ).

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How to Differentiate Teaching for the advancement of learner Thinking Skills: Simplifying Approaches to Teaching &Learning Series (Part 5)

100mentors

In the current installment, we will see how a cluster of specific thinking skills, that are put forward by both the IBO and contemporary educational research, can surface through differentiated teaching. Acknowledge your learners as individuals through differentiated instruction.

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How to Differentiate Teaching for the advancement of student Thinking Skills: Simplifying Approaches to Teaching & Learning Series (Part 5)

100mentors

In the current installment, we will see how a cluster of specific thinking skills, that are put forward by both the IBO and contemporary educational research, can surface through differentiated teaching. Acknowledge your students as individual learners through differentiated instruction.

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Improving the Education of Kids in Poverty and Other Helpful News

The CoolCatTeacher

10 Questioning Strategies to Differentiate Instruction | Minds in Bloom. Laura Poinier’s post has some easy-to-do strategies that can help you start differentiating NOW. From what I’ve read the “jury is still out” but still, there are definitely times you must have a physical book.

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Does Presence Equal Progress? Tracking Engagement in Online Schools

Edsurge

The practice of funding public schools and assessing student engagement based on a student’s physical attendance is rooted in this definition and has only reinforced what is an outmoded idea. Immediate data visualization is a powerful tool that enables truly personalized interaction and differentiated instruction.

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Top 100 Sites/Apps of 2014

Technology Tidbits

As w/ the previous year''s list, more and more mobile apps are making the list as mobile learning continues to be the rising trend in education. Otus - A fantastic and easy to use 1:1 learning solution for mobile classrooms (i.e Otus - A fantastic and easy to use 1:1 learning solution for mobile classrooms (i.e