Gottlieb

=Wayne Gottlieb= ====This is how I would define DI today: There are many differences in the students in any class, cultural, maturity level, abilities in reading, writing, comprehension, motivation. These differences lead to a continuum of abilities in a 3 dementional grid. How do you take these differences into account, how do you tap into the abilities and interests of every student. DI must provide methods for developing a lesson that allows students with different abilities to succeed. It must also touch each students interests, previous knowledge or culture. All students are responsible for learning the curriculum, so the question is how can different styles help them to learn a common curriculum and how can this all be going on in the same class.====

Assessment Learning plan
 * understandings,
 * essential questions and
 * SWBAT.
 * Performance tasks
 * Other evidence
 * SWBA

Thoughts on this: This plan goes along with the goals of inquiry. Inquiry also addresses the twin sins of activity based instruction and coverage by using projects or challenges to learn content. The content is not covered, but used as a tool to solve problems. Also, activities have clear goals; teaching the skills of problem solving, data collection, critical thinking skills plus the big ideas of the content.