The following Web sites are useful sources of information on differentiating instruction. The first set focuses on HOW to differentiate.

This link is to a page of Tech related DI resources compiled by our CIPD trainers.  It includes Unitedstreaming, Marco Polo, Photo Story and more!

netTrekker d.i. is purchased for each PA public school teacher. Consult your tech person for login. This award-winning search engine for schools, supports differentiated instruction with standards-based online resources, organized by readability level to help every child achieve.

Developed by the Indiana DOE. Tiered lessons K-12 with examples for Language Arts, Math and Science.

Site has good examples of differentiated lessons from K-5 linked to enduring understandings, essential questions, and evidence to standards (not PA).

Resource developed by author and former HS Science teacher Katie Nunley.  She notes, “These lesson plans were created by teachers from around the globe. Feel free to browse, borrow and adapt as needed!! If you've made Layered Curriculum unit sheets for any discipline or grade level, please send them to share. (Email them to kathie@brains.org).”

Social Studies lessons using differentiated instruction that encourage students to choose between different versions (A or B) of investigations designed to meet the needs of students with a variety of learning styles.

Earth and Space Science activities for beginners, intermediate and advanced learners.

Learning Science uses the National Education Standards (NAS, 1996) as the framework to provide free, high quality web interactives that may support a variety of learners.

Anchor Activities

Curriculum Compacting

Exit Cards

Flexible Grouping Practices

Learning Contracts

Management Strategies

Math Learning Stations

Shared Inquiry

Tiered Instruction

This site contains links to differentiated activities in math, science, language arts, reading, and technology. Many activities are for teachers of the gifted. Resources are available for students, teachers, and parents.

The Really Big Classroom Management List
http://drwilliampmartin.tripod.com/classm.html

A collection of classroom management and discipline websites purported to be the biggest on the World Wide Web.

This site offers a variety of approaches to differentiate instruction based on brain research. Links to strategies and other resources are provided. This site has a gifted focus.

For information in Spanish and English for parents and teachers this is an excellent site. Teacher resources for all ELLs are highlighted.

This site from Teach-Nology is now a subscription site. It provides a four-step plan for differentiating instruction in the classroom. Additional links are provided to related sites containing information on inquiry-based learning, cooperative learning, information processing strategies, lesson planning, and assessing student learning.

Wilmette 39 County N.C. has developed a page that list tiered resources and low prep strategy resources. These sites provide information on the WHAT and WHY for differentiation.


From Theory to Practice: The Challenges of Heterogeneous Classrooms
http://www.weac.org/kids/1998-99/march99/differ2.htm

This website discusses overcoming challenges with differentiated instruction in the homogeneously grouped classrooms.

Content differentiation means that the teachers meet the needs of individuals or groups of students by giving them different material to cover. Teachers offer students “multiple options for taking in information.”

National Center on Accessing the General Curriculum
http://www.cast.org/ncac/index.cfm?I=2876

This resource from the National Center on Accessing the General Curriculum provides an overview of differentiated instruction, guidelines for how to make differentiation possible, indicators of effectiveness, and an annotated list of additional online resources on differentiated instruction