Lesson Design for Differentiated Instruction, Grades 4-9

"The book provides helpful background information as well as a wide variety of examples of differentiated lessons, resource guides, reproducible templates, and a selection of grading tools ranging from rubrics to graphic organizers."
—Allan Varni, Instructor and Regional Coordinator
Division of Continuing Education, University of San Diego

"Glass examines the constructs of masterful teaching and makes them accessible to all. Her intensely practical and forthright approach allows readers to immediately translate the concepts of differentiation into their classrooms."
—Modell Marlow Andersen, Director of Educational Services
Hillsborough City School District, CA

Develop effective differentiated lessons that meet students' individual learning needs!

Differentiation allows teachers to target student needs and engage all students according to their learning preferences. Designed for teachers who are new to differentiating instruction, this book provides step-by-step guidance for creating meaningful lessons in language arts, math, science, and social studies at the upper elementary and middle school levels.

Kathy Tuchman Glass helps teachers develop confidence and expertise in differentiating lessons, units, and assessments and provides a detailed planning template, numerous examples, and reproducibles. This user-friendly resource:

• Provides an overview of differentiation based on the backward design model
• Discusses strategies for differentiating content, process, and product
• Helps teachers organize lessons around guiding or essential questions for students to explore
• Shows how to take students' learning characteristics (readiness, interests, learning styles) into consideration when planning lessons

Lesson Design for Differentiated Instruction, Grades 4–9 helps teachers plan differentiated lessons that will promote learning for every student.

About The Author:
As a former master teacher who holds current teaching certification, Kathy Glass consults with schools and districts, presents at conferences, and teaches seminars for university and county programs delivering customized professional development. In education for over 20 years, Glass works with teachers at all levels in groups of varying sizes from one-on-one to entire school districts. She assists administrators and teachers with strategic planning to determine school or district objectives and presents and collaborates on designing standards-based differentiated curriculum, revising current curriculum to include sound differentiated instruction, using compelling instructional strategies that engage all learners, using six-trait writing instruction and assessment, creating curriculum maps, and more.

Glass has written Curriculum Mapping: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Curriculum Year Overviews (Corwin Press, 2007) and Curriculum Design for Writing Instruction: Creating Standards-Based Lesson Plans and Rubrics (Corwin Press, 2005). She is currently working with Cindy Strickland and a number of other coauthors on teaching guides for Carol Ann Tomlinson’s Parallel Curriculum Model. In addition, Glass has served as a contributing writer and consultant for the Heath Middle Level Literature series (? 1995, DC Heath and Co).