Strategies for Differentiating Instruction: Best Practices for the Classroom

This easy-to-use book offers practical strategies for teachers to use in the classroom--strategies that allow all students to learn at appropriately challenging levels and make continuous progress by focusing on their various levels of knowledge and readiness to learn. Strategies address the interests and learning preferences of students in order to motivate them to produce their best work. Written in a teacher-friendly manner, Strategies for Differentiating Instruction presents strategies that can be used in any classroom to ensure that each student's needs are met.

Designed specifically for teachers new to the differentiation adventure, the book offers sound, practical advice for preassessing students, implementing differentiation strategies, managing student learning, and assessing student learning. This book is full of the essentials that any educator needs to know in order to differentiate instruction and address all students' needs, interests, and abilities.

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Differentiating Learning Experiences With Bloom's Taxonomy is an engaging excerpt from the book Strategies for Differentiating Instruction. This chapter offers a simple way to differentiate learning experiences using Bloom's Taxonomy of Cognitive Objectives.

Julia Link Roberts, Ph.D., is the Mahurin Professor in Gifted Studies and director and founder of The Center for Gifted Studies at Western Kentucky University. Dr. Roberts was named a Distinguished Professor at Western Kentucky University and was honored as the first recipient of the National Association for Gifted Children David W. Belin Advocacy Award.

She was also named Executive Director of the Center for Gifted Studies and the Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science in Kentucky.

Tracy Ford Inman has devoted her career to meeting the needs of young people, especially those who are gifted and talented. She has taught at both the high school and collegiate levels, as well as in summer programs for gifted and talented youth. This Who's Who Among American Educators was a Kentucky Teacher of the Year semifinalist in 1992, and now serves as Associate Director of The Center for Gifted Studies at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green.

Inman has presented papers at both state and national levels and has been a writer and editor for The Challenge, an award-winning news magazine of The Center for Gifted Studies. At Western Kentucky University, she earned a bachelor's degree in English in 1986, secondary teacher certification in 1988, a master's degree in education in 1992, and an endorsement in gifted education in 2001.