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Some Questions and Answers Related to Managing a Differentiated Classroom
Creating a classroom environment that is conducive to differentiation.
 * What is the big idea?**

Areas of concern for management: -managing time -controlling noise -movement in the classroom -flexible use of classroom space -organizing and distributing materials and resources
 * What are some of the supporting ideas, concepts etc.?**

The movement in the classroom and organizing and distributing of materials: this seemed pretty comfortable as we use assigned people to help hand things out or get one person from a group to collect materials instead of all students up out of their seats.
 * What are one or two details that were familiar or comfortable?**

We discussed that one common challenge we all had was the question regarding management of time: "What do I do when students finish work early?" We want to provide them with some kind of enrichment instead of busywork. **
 * What are one or two details that were new, challenging or potentially __unrealistic__ <--(please explain why)?