Paula Kluth

Don’t Lecture Me! 5 Ways to Keep Whole Class Instruction Active & Memorable

In a differentiated classroom, students can expect to experience a wide range of strategies, learning experiences, and approaches. These strategies, formats, experiences, and approaches include, but are not limited to, cooperative learning, partner work, peer tutoring, drama, simulations, group problem solving, self-directed learning, project-based instruction, and games.

Encouraging Differentiation: The Role of School Leaders

Administrators wanting to encourage teachers to stretch and modify their teaching approaches can do so by encouraging role sharing, providing planning time, and supporting internal staff development.

Everyone Can Do Something:
Using Service Learning to Differentiate Instruction

Service learning, instruction that involves helping, contributing, or volunteering in the school or community, seems to be gaining in popularity for students of all ages…and for good reason!

What Do We Do Now?

Adaptations for long lectures, whole-class discussions, and other tricky times.

Using "Curriculum Overlapping" to Meet the Needs of All

Using curriculum overlapping, students needing more support or enrichment can work on objectives that are different from those peers are working on but that can be connected to the work happening in the classroom.

Differentiating Instruction: 5 Easy Strategies for Inclusive Classrooms

Many general educators believe that they need specialized strategies to teach students with disabilities. While it can be beneficial to know about certain types of disabilities before teaching students with labels, often teachers are effective when they are accepting, look for strengths in their students, provide personal attention when necessary, and allow for differences in the ways students approach tasks and complete classroom work.

Rewriting History ... and 9 Other Ways to Adapt Textbooks

In almost every subject area, in nearly every grade level, students are expected to use a textbook as a resource. Many, however, are unable to access the content in their textbook due to struggles with reading and related skills such as information processing. Therefore, teachers in inclusive classrooms must adapt textbooks so that students with different reading and comprehension levels can learn classroom content.

Q&A: Curriculum Design for ALL in the Inclusive Classroom

How can teachers prepare lessons for students with and without disabilities in the inclusive classroom?