Thinking Skills

Verb Lists

Using Bloom's Planning

Flexible Grouping

outside links

Instructional Strategies Online

Instructional Plan Using Multiple Intelligences: Think Like an Egyptian

Learning Ideas (pdfs from B.Kingore)

The HOW:
Deciding Strategies, Tools, and Resources

Once the BIG IDEA and ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS have been decided,
and the student needs are defined through preassessments,
and the end goal is in mind...
the next step is to design and choose the tools and strategies that will match.
This is the meat of your planning (and often the most fun!).

Tools to Help

(will open with Adobe Acrobat)
Guide for Planning
Strategy List
Teachers Have Choices (lo-prep/hi-prep)
Pathways for Differentiation
The Big Picture
Framework Planning Chart (example)
Great Differentiation Strategies

Questioning

Building good questioning skills for students creates higher-order thinking connected with curriculum.

( pdf files that provide examples)
Writing Great Questions
Writing Great Questions 2
Differentiated Wait Time
Applying Bloom's Taxonomy for Questioning
The Questioning Toolkit
A Question Is Coming
Book Talk Questions (from SDE)
Questioning

Tiered Lessons ~ Tiered Activities ~ Tiered Products

Tiering: A Piece of Cake
Tiered Instruction powerpoint

(view in Adobe Acrobat)
Planning for Tiered Lesson (example)
Template for Planning a Tiered Lesson
Symmetry - 2nd grade (example)
List of Ways to Tier
Tiered Curriculum Project
Beginning Tiering (tips from Bertie Kingore)
More ideas on IAGC2005 page
Compacting
Compacting (ppt)
Independent Study ~ Orbital Study
Example -Cross Cultural Connections
Jigsaw
Learning Stations vs. Learning Centers
Center and Stations
Learning Centers and More - Ideas from UVA
Low Prep Possibilities
Teachers Have Choices
Managing Differentiated Instruction
Grouping Options
Anchoring - A Definition
Anchoring Works
Planning for Anchor Activities
More ideas on IAGC2005 page   
Cooperative Strategies
Quick and Easy Cooperative Ideas
Tic Tac Toe Menus
A Template
Calculators in 8th grade Honors Math
Technical Theater - 8th
Shape-Up  
last update
06/21/08