Differentiation in Action: A Complete Resource With Research-Supported Strategies to Help You Plan and Organize Differentiated Instruction and Achieve Success With All Learners

by Judith Dodge

Judith Dodge effectively blends her years of experience and the latest research on differentiated instruction to provide teachers with innovative tools that generate immediate impact on classroom teaching and learning. In this book she helps teachers to: translate research into action, inform their instruction through ongoing and frequent assessments, access multiple pathways for learning, foster "intrinsic" motivation, use "instructional intelligence" and flexible groupings, harness the power of visual tools, scaffold instruction for struggling learners, and provide challenging options for advanced learners.

Genres: Teaching, Education

160 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Angie Hull · Rating 4 out of 5]

This professional text has a variety of useful tools and organizers that can help differentiate and provide formative assessments in the upper elementary/middle school classroom. It has practical ways to use the organizers with many content areas. They are simple to use and apply. They lend into a variety of student learning styles and needs and focus on scaffolding a skill. Applies to Bloom's taxonomy and focuses on a large knowledge base of research.

[J.M. Brister · Rating 5 out of 5]

Differentiation in Action is a teaching strategies book by Judith Dodge. It gives a lot of strategies for differentiation of instruction. It is a great resource for teachers.

It contains the following sections and information:
• Celebrating the Unique Talents of All Learners: discusses the different types of thinking and learning styles
• Differentiating Instruction During the Three Phases of Learning: discusses the importance of research in instruction and gives the three stages of learning: pre-learning, during-learning, and post-learning
• Providing Choice During Instruction: discusses allowing choice with assignments, using research-based methods
• Differentiating Instruction Using Bloom's Taxonomy: discusses Bloom's levels of thinking and how to apply it to differentiating instruction
• Making Multiple Intelligences Work: discusses the multiple intelligences and how teachers can use them in strategies
• Maximizing Student Learning With Flexible Grouping: discusses the types of flexible grouping and how teachers can use them for instruction
• Tiering Lessons: discusses what tiered instruction is and how to implement it

[Jennifer]

This the first book that i have come across that gives real hands on examples of how differentiation can happen in the classroom. I recommend this for anyone who is looking to figure out how to make differentiating in the classroom happen.