Differentiated Teaching Tools

Amy Bowker from her blog "Classroom Collective" has a section called Differentiated Learning which is a
collection of great tools and strategies for teaching.

While she has an excellent collective to tips and strategies for all teachers, as an Exceptional Education teacher I've linked to the Differentiated Learning section.  She is willing to share her findings and other postings as well. Take a look by clicking on the link above.

Remember "we all work together to unlearn, relearn and teach new tips and techniques all the time."

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Naming Colors...A great scientific study!

Why Johnny Can't Name His Colors

The kid's are probably not color blind. Melody Dye has a great article and a trick for teaching children colors at a younger age--and why it is otherwise so hard for them. Check out the article: "Why Johnny Can't Name His Colors"  then remember what she has written. It is such a simple change for us to teach students, parents and others when talking about colors.

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Cookie.com great games for Kids

I know sometimes I get behind in looking for websites for my students, but this one www.cookie.com I'm glad I stumbled upon during this week of intercession.  The students are using the games for reinforcement of the lessons we are learning in the classroom as well as part of their at home studies.

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Visual Thinkers -- not just "pictures" anymore.

    

Some of us are visual thinkers, but that doesn't necessarily mean that we see only in pictures. We can also view or see in "concepts".   The website "Visible Thinking" contains some great strategies from Core Routines, Fairness Routines, to Creativity Routines.  Check out their website and then drill down to look at the strategies they provide for all of us "visible thinkers."

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Bedtime Math is awesome!!

Wow! A great way to help our kids get better at math... check it out: www.bedtimemathproblem.org

Bedtime Math is the brainchild of Laura Bilodeau Overdeck. Laura has no professional training in teaching, but she does know something about numbers. As a kid she sat and memorized perfect squares for fun, back before it was cool. As a mom, she (along with her husband John) started giving math problems to their two older kids; when their 2-year-old started hollering for his own math problem, they knew they were onto something, and Bedtime Math was born.

This is a great way to help them with the new common core state standards of math in a deeper level.

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