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BEP069 – Today’s One Thing Week 6: Differentiation
25 minutes Posted Jul 2, 2020 at 12:00 pm.
Recap of past episodes
What differentiation is and is not
Tips for looking at differentiation in 3 different ways:
How are you using data?
Buffet analogy
Targeting instruction by strategically grouping your students – heterogeneous or homogenous grouping
Assigning differentiated playlists
Using leveled reading tools
Students know when they’re getting different content
Having interactive online discussions
Thinking about what do all of my students need and what do some of my students need
Why some teachers have been hesitant to dive into differentiation
Offering opportunities for choice
Playlists
Choice boards
Offering students choice for how they work and with whom they want to be working
The data should show you what is the best path for you.
Presenting the same content in multiple ways
Offering the content in multiple modalities
Think about ways that you can flip your lesson plans to make them student-facing
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Today’s One Thing is a series produced in partnership with The Learning Accelerator.
Week 6: How do you differentiate remote instruction?
 
00:42 Recap of past episodes
01:40 What differentiation is and is not
03:35 Tips for looking at differentiation in 3 different ways:
Targeting instruction by strategically grouping your students
Offering opportunities for choice
Universal accessibility of content
04:31 How are you using data?
05:04 Buffet analogy
05:41 Targeting instruction by strategically grouping your students – heterogeneous or homogenous grouping
07:00 Assigning differentiated playlists
07:13 Using leveled reading tools
07:50 Students know when they’re getting different content
08:25 Having interactive online discussions
Flipgrid https://info.flipgrid.com/
09:28 Thinking about what do all of my students need and what do some of my students need
10:56 Why some teachers have been hesitant to dive into differentiation
13:08 Offering opportunities for choice
Khan Academy https://www.khanacademy.org/
IXL https://www.ixl.com/
NoRedInk https://www.noredink.com/
14:40 Playlists 
15:11 Choice boards
15:49 Offering students choice for how they work and with whom they want to be working
17:38 The data should show you what is the best path for you.
18:01 Presenting the same content in multiple ways
18:56 Offering the content in multiple modalities
Combining the written or verbal material with visual material
Wave accessibility scanner https://wave.webaim.org/
Mercury Reader https://mercury.postlight.com/reader/
Open Dyslexic font https://opendyslexic.org/
21:30 Think about ways that you can flip your lesson plans to make them student-facing