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Welcome to Differentiated Instruction Resources for Educators Committed to Teaching.

This site is an idea bank to show what is out there to help you further differentiate your instruction for the wide variety of students you have under your care. More than ever before, California schools serve students with exceedingly diverse backgrounds, home languages, learning styles, interests, levels of readiness for grade level content, and intelligences.

Research has been showing that the more a teacher pays attention to these differences and makes use of them to engage students in the curriculum, the more students will learn. Yet there is no definitive book or program that explicitly explains how to do this with every type, age and grade level of student in every subject area.

Different educators have addressed different aspects of this massive task, and have found success. This site will point you to these educators’ ideas so that you can select and adapt strategies for your particular combination of students.

Three of the link headings at the top take you to resources that highlight the ways in which students are different:

Learning profiles (their learning styles, their various intelligences, etc.)
Student Interests (what turns different students on and keeps them engaged)
Student Needs (from struggling to advanced, from English Learners to RSP students, and many more topics)

One other link – Management - gives you resources to help you put it all together in a room full of 20-30 students.

This site will be expanding, so please visit often.