Designing a Differentiated Lesson Plan
Teachers divide their time, resources, and efforts to effectively instruct students of diverse backgrounds and interests. They ensure that every student has the opportunity to develop his or her individual talents. Teachers create lessons that will be effective for students with different academic skills and readiness levels. And in order to address the range of skills and needs of students in today’s diverse classroom, teachers need to develop and use varied teaching and assessment strategies. Differentiated instruction is one such technique that provides students with different avenues for acquiring and processing content. Differentiation entails identifying both the appropriate entry points for learning as well as the appropriate exit points for students to express their learning (Tomlinson, 2000). And there are many techniques to reach every type of learner. Such as, the gifted and talented students, the students with disabilities, the students who lac...