Your students are different. They wear different clothes. They like different TV shows. Some of them have had their growth spurt, and others are still shrimpy. And that's the idea behind differenti...

Every teacher is a special snowflake. And each one deserves a mountain of appreciation and a whole article with a catchy alliterative name to him- or herself. But let's be real: Carol Ann Tomlinson...

You know what differentiated instruction is. (And if you don't, that's why we're handily linking to our article on that very topic). Next step: how to implement it? There are a number of tactics yo...

The awesome thing about differentiated instruction is that it's so doggone versatile. You've already got the general approaches to get you differentiating across the board; to really shake things u...

Grammar. Spelling. Syntax. Go.It's as simple as that, right?We know, what a knee-slapper. Writing varies by as many degrees as you have students in your class. Not to mention what sort of mood they...

How could we teach subtraction if we couldn't talk about differences? Heh. But here's the real deal. Students learn in different ways. Some of them look at a formula and it's memorized. Others need...

Sure, you use the chemistry textbook for chem and the bio textbook for bio. But differentiated instruction is about more than remembering which period you teach which subject.It's about how to teac...

Isn't differentiation what art is all about? Like, you'd never try to force a Monet to paint like a Magritte…and the same self-expression-y stuff goes for kids, right?Right.But as far as incorpor...

From our physical appearance to our mental capacities to our favorite card in Pokémon, everyone's a unique snowflake…or something.It's especially important to keep that in mind when preparing cu...

We're not talking gifted with a sixth sense or just getting a lot of presents. These are the kids who are quick, think outside the box, and seem to have already read everything you assigned—not t...