Back to School Night September 4, 2014

Ruth Dutton, Principal/Superintendent Sycamore Valley Academy

Differentiation

Differentiation is good teaching. It is the adjustments teachers make to curriculum and instruction in response to the students’ personalities, interests, aptitudes, talents, strengths, and weaknesses in order to maximize student success.

Differentiation is good teaching. It is the adjustments teachers make to curriculum and instruction in response to the students’ personalities, interests, aptitudes, talents, strengths, and weaknesses in order to maximize student success.

To differ the curriculum materials

To differ the curriculum materials pacing

To differ the curriculum materials pacing the plan:

providing more time:

compacting:

To differ the instruction

levels of questioning levels of support/prompting

product or output expectations

Differentiation for Gifted

Four ways: 1. Acceleration 2. Depth 3. Complexity 4. Novelty

Acceleration What it is: helping young students understand ideas to greater intellectual depth and sophistication, adding dimensionality What it is not: arbitrarily dragging students through the curriculum rapidly

Acceleration What it is: helping young students understand ideas to greater intellectual depth and sophistication, adding dimensionality

Acceleration What it is: helping young students understand ideas to greater intellectual depth and sophistication, adding dimensionality

Acceleration What it is: helping young students understand ideas to greater intellectual depth and sophistication, adding dimensionality

Acceleration What it is: helping young students understand ideas to greater intellectual depth and sophistication, adding dimensionality

Acceleration What it is: helping young students understand ideas to greater intellectual depth and sophistication, adding dimensionality

Acceleration What it is: helping young students understand ideas to greater intellectual depth and sophistication, adding dimensionality

Acceleration What it is: helping young students understand ideas to greater intellectual depth and sophistication, adding dimensionality

Depth & Complexity

Novelty The child’s natural aptitude or talent will be

responded to We can teach creativity, critical thinking, problem-

solving, logic, and modes of reasoning (aka “thinking skills”). All of the above evokes variety.

Independent projects– students having the opportunity to be immersed in topics of his/her own curiosity as we bridge those to/within the curriculum

“Voice and choice”

Differentiation for Gifted Four ways: 1. Acceleration 2. Depth 3. Complexity 4. Novelty

…is good for every student.

Differentiation is good teaching. It is the adjustments teachers make to curriculum and instruction in response to the students’ personalities, interests, aptitudes, talents, strengths, and weaknesses in order to maximize student success.

Back to School Night September 4, 2014

Ruth Dutton, Principal/Superintendent Sycamore Valley Academy

Volunteering at SVA

Next steps

There is a packet available up front tonight– take one, complete it and bring it with you to the office when you come to volunteer. Joy will take it from you. She keeps a list of parents who’ve completed training and the paperwork and does a Megan’s Law search for each.

Thank you for supporting your child and our school!