Embarc Sample Differentiation List

Advanced Learners

· Provide opportunities for open-ended/self-directed tasks

· Higher-level reading material on same subject

· Focus on higher level questioning

· Encourage creative thought and reward divergent thinking

· Provide problems that do not have a clear solution

· Provide focused opportunities for independent research skills

· Assign tasks that are authentic and are for a real audience

· Involve in creating student-centered feedback guide

· Provide opportunities to display depth and breadth of knowledge

· Provide opportunities to demonstrate content to others

· Accommodate pace through goal setting

· Offer most difficult version first

· Use sentence frames

· Provide graphic organizers

· Scaffold and/or chunk content and reading

· Use pneumonic devices

· Restate lesson purpose/ give closure

· Provide background knowledge prior to lesson

· Preview/pre-teach vocabulary

· Use visual aids

· Provide leveled activities and/or assessments

· Model and provide examples

· Strategic student grouping

· Match tasks to student learning styles

· Allow for collaboration

· Allow for opportunities to remediate

· Utilize manipulatives and/or kinesthetic materials

· Make real-word connections with content