Differentiated Instructional Strategies in Practice: Training, Implementation, and Supervision, 2nd Edition

"An excellent resource for understanding the key concepts and strategies of differentiated instruction. Participants in training based on this curriculum will experience the instructional strategies firsthand, facilitating their application in the classroom."
—Maria Timmons Flores, Assistant Professor
Lewis & Clark College

"The examples are real, and any administrator can take the ideas and easily incorporate them into the professional development routine."
—Kimberly Bright, Assistant Professor of Teacher Education
Shippensburg University

"The book's major strengths are its fluency, readability, and connection of theory and practice. The activities are doable and will make sense to a classroom teacher."
—Belinda G. Gimbert, Coordinator, Transition to Teaching Program Newport News Public Schools, VA

The expert study guide to support implementation of differentiated instruction in every classroom!

The companion book to the updated edition of the best-selling Differentiated Instructional Strategies: One Size Doesn't Fit All, this revised edition focuses on step-by-step training activities for job-embedded professional development in differentiated instruction. This workshop-friendly resource offers guidelines for small study groups or larger staff development meetings and includes:

1. Research-based approaches for responding to concerns about change and for providing individualized support and mentoring
2. Suggestions for coaching, observation, supervision, and evaluation of staff members’ use of DI practices
3. Implementation and evaluation tools to measure schoolwide progress
4. A CD-ROM containing a wealth of reproducibles

Covering the basic elements of differentiated instruction, this book demonstrates how administrators and staff developers can help teachers develop the capacity for change and improve the quality of instruction, curriculum, and assessment.

About The Author:
Gayle H. Gregory consults throughout Europe, Asia, North and South America, and Australia with teachers, administrators, and staff developers in the areas of differentiated instruction, emotional intelligence, brain-compatible learning, block scheduling, and instructional and assessment practices. She also works with educators in the areas of cooperative group learning, presentation skills, coaching and mentoring, renewal of secondary schools, and facilitating large-scale change. A member of both the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development and the National Staff Development Council, Gregory has recently written Differentiated Instructional Strategies in Practice, Second Edition: Training, Implementation, and Supervision (Corwin Press, December 2007) and her bestsellers include Differentiating Instruction With Style: Aligning Teacher and Learner Intelligences for Maximum Achievement (Corwin Press, 2005).