Spring 2010 - Strategies for Differentiating Instruction

SBISD educators are participating in a GT Book Study by blog on Strategies for Differentiating Instruction: Best Practices for the Classroom by Julia L. Roberts, Ed.D. and Tracy F. Inman.

Expectations:

1st Session: (face to face)
Participants need to have the first assigned reading completed BEFORE the first face-to-face session. During the first face-to-face session, participants will post their responses to the first set of questions on the blog.

2nd Session: (by blog)
1) By the meeting date, participants must have posted at least 2 comments that specifically address fellow partipcipants' posts in the previous session. For example, Suzy Q answered a posted question in Session 1 in which she described a project she's doing in her classroom. By the 2nd session, I will post a comment in Session 1 that directly addresses the project Suzy Q is doing.
2) By the meeting date, participants must post their responses to the Session 2 questions.

3rd Session: (by blog)
1) By the meeting date, participants must have posted at least 2 comments that specifically address fellow partipcipants' posts in the previous session.
2) By the meeting date, participants must post their responses to the Session 3 questions.

4th Session: (face to face)
1) Prior to the face to face meeting, participants must have posted at least 2 comments that specifically address fellow partipcipants' posts in the previous session.
2) Prior to the face to face meeting, participants must post their responses to the Session 4 questions.
3) In the face to face meeting we will discuss the book as a whole.

Instructions:

• Click on "comments" below the post to which you want to respond.


• Type your comment into the box. If you write a lot, you can use the light gray bar to scroll up and down within the comment box.


• When you finish typing your comment, click on the little black arrow beside "Select profile…"


• Choose "Name/URL" which is near the bottom of your choices.


• In the box under "Name:" type in what you want to be known as in our book study. You can use your first name and last initial or last name and first initial – something that lets us know who you are. (For example, I'd probably call myself LBreedlove or LynetteB.) Leave the URL box blank and click on "Continue".


• You'll notice that whatever you typed in replaced "Select profile…"


• Now click on "Post Comment".


• Another box will pop up for a word verification. This step prevents spam from being posted by computers on blogs. Just the word, or combination of letters, that you are given in the box. Then click "Finish". If you didn't quite get the word/letter right, it will give you a different word.


• It might take a minute or two, but then your comment will be posted. You'll know your comment is posted because you'll get a notice saying it was, and the comment will appear on the page, just below the post.

Not an educator in SBISD? Grab a copy of the book and join our discussion!