When we facilitate professional development events, there’s often a common theme: teachers understand the importance of active STEM teaching and learning, but don’t always know how to implement it in ...

In the middle schools where I have taught, differentiated instruction is understood in multiple ways. The veteran educators tend to call it a “new name for the same old things.” Teachers in the middle ...

Differentiation in teaching, put simply, is a teaching approach that focuses on groups of students rather than individual students. Teachers can flexibly group students for targeted instruction, ...

Luisana González is currently serving dual-language students in Illinois in a 5th grade classroom. She is in her 19th year of teaching and has previously taught K-5 multilingual students in a resource ...

Differentiated instruction is an adaptive teaching approach that systematically responds to the varied readiness levels, interests and learning profiles of individual students. At its core, it ...

As a paraprofessional for over 3 years and going on my 5th year as a certified special education resource teacher, I’ve learned that no two learners are ever quite the same. Each student brings unique ...

Differentiated Instruction is the process of tailoring your curriculum to integrate individual student’s passions, interests and goals. Differentiation can take many forms. I suggest beginning your ...

Connecting Culturally Diverse Students with Special Needs to Culturally Responsive Curriculum: An Example and a Revelation Connecting Culturally Diverse Students with Special Needs to Culturally ...