Although much has changed in schools in recent years, the
power of differentiated instruction remains the same—and the need for it has
only increased.
Today’s classroom is more diverse, more inclusive, and more
plugged into technology than ever before. And it’s led by teachers under
enormous pressure to help decidedly unstandardized students meet an expanding
set of rigorous, standardized learning targets. In this updated second edition
of her best-selling classic work, Carol Ann Tomlinson offers these teachers a
powerful and practical way to meet a challenge that is both very modern and
completely timeless: how to divide their time, resources, and efforts to
effectively instruct so many students of various backgrounds, readiness and
skill levels, and interests.
With a perspective informed by advances in research and
deepened by more than 15 years of implementation feedback in all types of
schools, Tomlinson explains the theoretical basis of differentiated
instruction, explores the variables of curriculum and learning environment,
shares dozens of instructional strategies, and then goes inside elementary and
secondary classrooms in nearly all subject areas to illustrate how real
teachers are applying differentiation principles and strategies to respond to
the needs of all learners.
This book’s insightful guidance on what to differentiate,
how to differentiate, and why lays the groundwork for bringing differentiated
instruction into your own classroom or refining the work you already do to help
each of your wonderfully unique learners move toward greater knowledge, more
advanced skills, and expanded understanding. Today more than ever, The
Differentiated Classroom is a must-have staple for every teacher’s shelf
and every school’s professional development collection.