Beginning Teachers

Veteran teachers Larry Ferlazzo and Katie Hull Synieski offer tips on differentiating instruction for English-language learners. By using techniques such as pairing up students and enhancing background knowledge, teachers can make a lesson accessible to every student in the class, regardless of language proficiency.

Some students finish tasks quickly, others slowly. Some understand the concept on the first try, and others need more practice. How can a teacher plan ahead for all these scenarios?

In this video, teacher and author Larry Ferlazzo explains that differentiating instruction is really about getting to know your students and making decisions, often in the moment, based on what they need. He offers some low-lift strategies he’s learned over the years for making activities accessible for students with all types of gifts and challenges.

This article looks at some specific differentiation strategies to use during a PBL project.

In this collection of tools and advice from Edutopia and the web, find resources to help you adjust instruction in response to diverse learner needs and interests.

This resource provides teachers with an Alberta context for differentiated instruction, and information and strategies for implementing differentiated instructional practices to better meet the diverse learning needs of all students.

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) can be helpful for all kids, including kids with learning and attention issues. But UDL takes careful planning by teachers. Here are just a few examples of how UDL can work in a classroom.

The video provides an overview of Anne Fitzgerald School's journey towards designing and implementing behaviour supports to meet the needs of their school.

A very useful series of short videos that reviews the UDL Framework with examples of how teachers can adjust content to meet the different points of the framework.

A panel of UDL experts takes you inside a diverse Language Arts classroom to show master teachers applying the principles and guidelines of UDL.

A panel of UDL experts takes you inside a diverse urban school to show master teachers applying the principles and guidelines of UDL

A panel of UDL experts takes you inside a middle school Science classroom to show master teachers applying the principles and guidelines of UDL.