Differentiated Instruction
Teachers are often faced with a classroom full of diverse learners with different abilities, learning styles and interests. The Differentiated Instruction Web Guide can help you create an all-inclusive learning environment that meets the needs of all students in a mixed ability classroom.
Differentiated Instruction Basics
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Differentiated Instruction Resources
The Web is filled with an array of differentiated instruction resources. Engage your students with lesson plans, activities and games fit for all learning styles and interests.
Top Sites for Differentiated Instruction Resources
Differentiation Central
is a Web site of the University of Virginia where Carol Ann Tomlinson, a leading differentiation advocate, is a professor. Visit the site to access lesson plans, strategies and teaching tools.
Differentiation Toolbox
offers templates and examples for planning differentiated lessons that use three strategies: tiered lessons, learning contracts and anchor activities.
Tools for Schools
is a PDF document from the New York State Education Department. The document includes a self-assessment checklist; management strategies for mixed ability classrooms; ideas for implementing differentiated instruction in early elementary, middle and high school levels, and with gifted students and students with disabilities.
Layered Curriculum
offers sample lesson plans that use a layered curriculum approach, developed by Dr. Kathie Nunley. Find lesson plans across subjects for elementary, middle and high school learners, as well as special education students.






