The Differentiator
What it is: This is a neat tool for teachers. The Differentiator is based on “A Taxonomy of Learning, Teaching, and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives”. The Differentiator helps to guide you as you create learning activities and lessons for the various learning needs in your classroom. First choose a thinking skill from one of six categories (remember, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, or creating). Next, pick a way to to differentiate the content. Then, you will choose a resource that students will use. Select a product for students to create it can be visual, constructed, oral, multimedia, or written. Finally choose the group size. As you choose items for each category a learning objective sentence will be created.
How to integrate The Differentiator into the classroom: The Differentiator is a great tool to focus your learning goals. It helps you to quickly and succinctly create objectives for the different learning styles in your classroom. Not only does this help to focus your lessons, it can also help students to direct their learning. Students who understand what learning goals they are working toward, and how they will get there, will be more successful.
Tips: There is a great little informational tutorial video that you can access by clicking on the “Need Help?” button in the top right corner of the site.
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