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**~ CONTENT : What students learn. ~** **How to differentiate Content ...**  = =
 * 1) **Pre-Assessment** - It is important to assess your students' prior knowledge, ability to apply previous knowledge to the new material, and most importantly identify those students who need additional instruction. This is also an opportunity to understand your students' learning styles.
 * 2) This document offers more detail regarding pre-assessment strategies. [[file:brighton_preassess.pdf]]
 * 3) This document has a flow chart with descriptions about pre-assessements and differentiatied instructions. [[file:DI_UDL.1.14.11.doc]]
 * 4) **Concept based teaching vs. 'covering' the material **
 * 5) **Curriculum compacting for advanced learners **
 * 6) Stage 1 - Pre-test, students mastering will be exempt from whole-class instruction
 * 7) Stage 2 - Plan for students who did not demonstrate
 * 8) Stage 3 - Teacher & student design an investigation for the advanced learner while others are working in class[[image:differentiation-image.jpg align="right"]]
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 * 10) **<span style="color: #331dbf; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Abstraction - more advanced concepts **
 * 11) **<span style="color: #331dbf; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Learning contracts **
 * 12) <span style="color: #331dbf; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">﻿Leaning contracts explained - used to help with classroom management
 * 13) <span style="color: #331dbf; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">How to create and use learning contracts - uses Tomilinson's methods
 * 14) <span style="color: #331dbf; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Best Practices: Instructional Strategies & Techniques - great explanation and examples by grade level.
 * 15) **<span style="color: #331dbf; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Interdisciplinary approach **
 * 16) **<span style="color: #331dbf; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Align tasks and objectives to learning goals **
 * 17) <span style="color: #331dbf; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">McTighe Understanding by Design - UbD explained in a nutshell
 * 18) Overview of UbD
 * 19) **<span style="color: #331dbf; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Flexible pacing **<span style="color: #331dbf; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">- use curriculum maps
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 * 21) **<span style="color: #331dbf; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Varied support systems **
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<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">**How to conn﻿ect the curriculum (content) and your students ...**

<span style="color: #331dbf; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">The Latin verb form of **curriculum** is //curro// which means **a path to run in small steps**. Differentiation is used to help all students succeed. What is in the child's best interest?

<span style="color: #331dbf; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">"//Success really does come down to the critical point whereby we are working for specific learners in specific places to meet their specific needs//." <span style="color: #331dbf; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Heidi Hayes Jabobs (2004)

<span style="color: #331dbf; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">It is important to align your curriculum because...


 * <span style="color: #331dbf; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Students become the center of our decision making
 * <span style="color: #331dbf; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">By unpacking the standards, we become more aware of our student's learning and our teaching
 * <span style="color: #331dbf; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">A connecting bridge between standards and the classroom is created
 * <span style="color: #331dbf; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">A constant ongoing learning process is used, revising is constant
 * <span style="color: #331dbf; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Allows horizontal and vertical alignment of the curriculum
 * <span style="color: #331dbf; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Teachers collaboratively plan

<span style="color: #331dbf; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">To help you create your curriculum map for the upcoming school year in MATH, the Connecticut State Department of Education offers **Connecticut Curriculum Trace Maps.** Very conveniently there are links for grades K through 12:


 * <span style="color: #331dbf; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Mathematics Content Standards Trace Maps: All grade levels within each Standard
 * <span style="color: #331dbf; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Mathematics Content Standards Trace Maps: By grade clusters, all Standards

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">**What is Curriculum Mapping?** <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">**﻿**



Figure 1. Learning Cycle and Decision Factors Used in Planning and Implementing Differentiated Instruction

This **wikki is specifically designed with mathematics** being the main discipline researched. Effective July 7, 2010, the Connecticut State Board of Education adopted the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in English language arts and mathematics. These standards establish what Connecticut's students should know and be able to do as they progress through Grades K-12. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">(**[|Common Core State]****[|Standards]**).