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Lesson Design for Differentiated Instruction, Grades 4-9
Kathy Tuchman Glass
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Description for Lesson Design for Differentiated Instruction, Grades 4-9
Paperback. This user-friendly resource provides step-by-step guidance and a detailed template for creating meaningful lessons that are differentiated according to students' learning characteristics. Editor(s): Glass, Kathy Tuchman. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white line drawings, figures. BIC Classification: JNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 275 x 217 x 13. Weight in Grams: 606.
"The book provides helpful background information as well as a wide variety of examples of differentiated lessons, resource guides, reproducible templates, and a selection of grading tools ranging from rubrics to graphic organizers."
—Allan Varni, Instructor and Regional Coordinator
Division of Continuing Education, University of San Diego
"Glass examines the constructs of masterful teaching and makes them accessible to all. Her intensely practical and forthright approach allows readers to immediately translate the concepts of differentiation into their classrooms."
—Modell Marlow Andersen, Director of Educational Services
Hillsborough City School District, CA
Develop effective differentiated lessons that meet students′ individual learning needs!
Differentiation allows teachers ... Read moreto target student needs and engage all students according to their learning preferences. Designed for teachers who are new to differentiating instruction, this book provides step-by-step guidance for creating meaningful lessons in language arts, math, science, and social studies at the upper elementary and middle school levels.
Kathy Tuchman Glass helps teachers develop confidence and expertise in differentiating lessons, units, and assessments and provides a detailed planning template, numerous examples, and reproducibles. This user-friendly resource:
- Provides an overview of differentiation based on the backward design model
- Discusses strategies for differentiating content, process, and product
- Helps teachers organize lessons around guiding or essential questions for students to explore
- Shows how to take students′ learning characteristics (readiness, interests, learning styles) into consideration when planning lessons
Lesson Design for Differentiated Instruction, Grades 4–9 helps teachers plan differentiated lessons that will promote learning for every student.
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Product Details
Publisher
SAGE Publications Inc United States
Place of Publication
Thousand Oaks, United States
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About Kathy Tuchman Glass
Consulting Description Kathy Glass is a former teacher who consults and presents nationally with K-12 teachers and administrators at schools, districts, conferences, and county offices of education. She offers a blend of professional development (PD) topics to target audiences in areas affecting curriculum and instruction. To deliver customized PD, she assists educators with strategic planning to determine objectives. Then ... Read moreshe tailors PD based on requested topics such as, but not limited to: · highlights of the ELA Common Core Standards · implementation of the ELA Common Core or other standards-based curriculum using a backward design approach · essential understandings and guiding questions to frame curriculum and instruction · differentiated tools and instructional strategies · pre-, formative, summative, and self-assessments · alignment of six-traits writing instruction and assessment to curriculum goals · unit and yearlong curriculum maps · text-dependent questions to facilitate close reading, and more. To help educators directly translate what she presents into effective classroom practice that impacts students, Kathy can provide a variety of PD opportunities (e.g., presentations, lesson demonstrations and modeling, coaching, collaborative unit design, etc.). She is the author of six books: Mapping Comprehensive Units to the English Language (ELA) Arts Common Core Standards, 6-12 (May, 2013); Mapping Comprehensive Units to the ELA Common Core Standards, K-5 (© 2012); Lesson Design for Differentiated Instruction, Grades 4-9 (©2009); Staff Development Guide for the Parallel Curriculum (©2009); Curriculum Mapping: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Curriculum Year Overviews (©2007); and Curriculum Design for Writing Instruction: Creating Standards-Based Lesson Plans and Rubrics (©2005). In addition, Glass has served as a reader and reviewer for Reader’s Handbook: A Student Guide for Reading and Learning (2002, Great Source Education Group) and as a contributing writer and consultant for the Heath Middle Level Literature series (1995, DC Heath and Co). Website: www.kathyglassconsulting.com; email: kathy@kathyglassconsulting.com Show Less
Reviews for Lesson Design for Differentiated Instruction, Grades 4-9
"Glass examines the constructs of masterful teaching and makes them accessible to all by identifying, defining, and exploring the premises, concepts, and skills necessary to engage all learners. Her intensely practical and forthright approach allows readers to immediately translate the concepts of differentiation into their classrooms."
Modell Marlow Andersen, Director of Educational Services “By using this book as a guide, ... Read moreany teacher can create lessons and classroom learning settings that can meet the needs of the students in all subject areas. The book provides helpful background information; offers a wide variety of examples of differentiated lessons, resource guides, reproducible templates; and includes a selection of grading tools ranging from rubrics to graphic organizers.”
Allan Varni, Instructor and Regional Coordinator Show Less
