INCLUSIVE TEACHING:

The Journey Towards Creating Effective Schools for All Learners

CHAPTER FOUR

Planning Individualized Differentiation

InclusiveNet. Links organized by the different sections of the chapter.

Learning tools. Tools for analysis, discussion, and planning you may use in class, professional development, and in your own practice as a teacher.

• Student profile. Activity Tool 4-2 is a blank student profile. This can be used as a tool in a school for recording and thinking about the characteristics of a student. It may also be used with case studies to prompt discussion.
• Class profile. Use Activities Tool 4-3 to have participants conduct an analysis of a classroom and discuss the relationship of teaching style to needs of the students.
• Collaborative consultation action planning. Activity Tool 4-4 is a blank collaborative consultation form that can be used in a local school and as a basis to discuss students prompting discussion and dialogue regarding how best to meet student needs.
• Curriculum matrix and daily schedule. Activity Tools 4-5 and 4-6 are respectively a blank curriculum matrix form and daily schedule. Ask participants to develop a curriculum matrix and daily schedule for a case study student.
• Individualized differentiation. Use Activity Tool 4-8 and ask participants to sketch learning activities, problems a student is having, and designing solutions to solve the problem.
• Individualized differentiation plan. Use Activity Tool 4-9 to have participants develop a plan for assuring effective inclusion for a student they know.
• Individualized Education Program. Activity Tool 4-10 is a blank IEP form that can be used with case studies and in helping individuals understand the components of an IEP.

Artwork reprinted by permission of
Martha Perske from PERSKE:
PENCIL PORTRAITS 1971-1990
Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1998.