How to Use Differentiation in the Classroom: the Complete Guide

Master the art of effective differentiation that meets the needs of all learners and helps you to adapt your teaching quickly, efficiently and with one eye on your workload.

Differentiation - also known as adaptive teaching - is at the heart of good teaching. How to Use Differentiation in the Classroom helps you to seamlessly integrate tweaks, changes and new ideas into your teaching that will help you support every learner you work with.

Adaptive teaching isn't about creating lots of extra worksheets or planning three lessons to try and teach simultaneously. Instead, it's a lens through which we look at teaching and learning. A way of making practical decisions about what we plan, how we teach, and how we assess. So that every learner has the best chance of being successful and making great progress.

In this detailed, practical guide, you'll learn:

• How to think about differentiation as an adaptive approach to high quality teaching and learning.
• What are the five categories of differentiation and how to use them in your classroom.
• How you can differentiate effectively without increasing your workload.
• The practical strategies and techniques any teacher can use to enhance their differentiation.
• Why the techniques work and how they differentiate.

Inside, you'll discover one hundred differentiation strategies, covering the five categories of differentiation:

• Activities
• Questioning
• Things you can ask students to do or use
• Things the teacher can do
• Words and writing

Become a more skilled, confident teacher and begin your journey to mastering differentiation today.

Mike Gershon is an expert educationalist whose knowledge of teaching and learning extends across the age ranges and the curriculum. His online teaching tools have been viewed and downloaded more than 3.5 million times by teachers in over 180 countries and territories. They include the now famous Starter Generator, Plenary Producer and AFL Toolkit. He is also the author of more than 30 books on teaching and learning, including bestsellers covering categories such as outstanding teaching, assessment for learning, differentiation, questioning, growth mindsets and Bloom's Taxonomy. He has also written more than 50 guides looking at different areas of classroom practice. All of Mike's work is closely focused on the practicalities of pedagogy; teachers across the world return to his work because of its relevance to the classroom and the immediacy with which the ideas can be implemented. Find out more at www.mikegershon.com and www.gershongrowthmindsets.com