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What is a Classroom Management Plan?

What is a Classroom Management Plan? A classroom management and discipline plan can assist teachers to maximize the amount of class time students will spend on learning.  Wong & Wong (1996, pp. 85-86) cite research that says that teachers who spend the first three weeks of school teaching specific routines and procedures increase student time […]

Develop      engaging and motivating differentiated strategies that align with Common      Core State Standards.

Examine “All Children Can Learn“. Then, search the web for effective, evidence-based differentiated strategies that are engaging, motivating, and address the needs of individual learners. First, provide five evidence-based strategies: Two      instructional strategies (i.e., graphic organizers), Two      instructional tools (e.g., technology tool, device or iPad App, Web      Quests, etc.), One      activity (e.g., Think-Pair-Share). Second, for […]

Explain      how the strategies you’ve suggested are engaging to diverse learners. 

Differentiated instruction is built on a foundation of effective teaching practices. Quality curriculum is one of these defining principles, as what is taught serves as the basis for how it is taught. Quality curriculum has its basis in standards, or descriptions of student outcomes in content areas. (Puckett, 2013, Chap. 5, Introduction) However, many educators […]

Create      an instructional alignment between the Common Core State Standards (CCSS)      and differentiated instruction.

What we have learned so far in this course is that students come to us from diverse backgrounds and have their own unique learning needs. We have also learned that the systems of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are grounded in differentiated instructional practices to form the basis of quality curriculum. As noted in […]