This course is designed to provide educators with the necessary resources to create a learning environment that will maximize the potential for student success by using the strategies associated with differentiated instruction. Practical applications of how to differentiate with the content, process, and product will be explored while planning differentiated lessons.
Participants will understand what defines differentiation and recognize their role and responsibilities in a differentiated learning community. Participants will learn how to provide motivating, challenging, and meaningful experiences for students by differentiating instruction while managing instructional time in a way that meets the standards. Upon completion of this course, participants will possess a repertoire of strategies for differentiating instruction that will allow them to respond to the diverse needs of the students in their classroom.
Carlow University ED 639 • Madonna University EDU 5830.12 • Mercy University EDUT 517
This class is cross listed with Mercy University course EDUC 534 - Differ Inst Method & Materials.
The required text for this course is Leading and Managing a Differentiated Classroom, 2nd Edition, written by Caol Ann Tomlinson and Marcia B. Imbeau. ISBN: 9781416631774
Graduate participants earn 3 semester hours of graduate credit and will receive a transcript from one of our partner institutions below. Professional development participants will receive a certificate of completion for 45 hours of professional developments credit for face-to-face classes and 60 hours of professional development credit for online classes.
Session 1: Understanding Differentiated Instruction
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Session 2: The Role, Responsibility and Tasks of the Teacher in a Differentiated Classroom
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Session 3: Essential Questions
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Session 4: Curriculum Compacting and Curriculum Mapping
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Session 5: The Challenge and Variety of Differentiated Instruction
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Session 6: Flexible Grouping and Tiered Assignments
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Session 7: Differentiating Content, Process and Products
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Session 8: How to Differentiate for Special Populations
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Session 9: Assessment
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Session 10: Planning a Differentiated Unit of Study
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Our Partners are well-established regionally and nationally accredited colleges and universities, recognized for academic excellence and their commitment to teachers.
Online 3-graduate credit courses are 13 weeks in length.
On-site weekend courses are held Friday evening from 6:00pm-9:00pm and Saturday/Sunday, 8:30am-5:30pm.
Weekday courses are Monday-Friday from 8:00am- 6:00pm.
It is the responsibility of the student to check with their state, county, district, or school to ensure that all requirements are being met by the course you're taking.
Check the Partner Universities page for specific university information as well as course numbers which are specific to the university partner.
Students are required to purchase their own textbook, the information for which can be found here. If no book is required it will be specified on the list. We have copies of many of the textbooks should you wish to purchase directly from TEI.
Professional development (PD) participants receive a certificate of completion from TEI for 45 hours of PD credit for face to face classes and 60 hours of PD credit for online classes. These certificates are mailed within one week of the end of the class and reflect the course title, dates of attendance, and credit hour information.