Facilitator's Guide to Differentiating the High School Classroom

Solution Strategies for 18 Common Obstacles

Help teachers overcome the 18 most common obstacles to differentiating instruction for high school students!

Designed to accompany the best-selling book Differentiating the High School Classroom: Solution Strategies for 18 Common Obstacles, this facilitator's guide provides staff developers with the necessary tools to demonstrate how teachers can confidently meet the challenge of differentiating instruction in high school classrooms. Facilitators will be able to address concerns voiced by real teachers, such as "I have too much content to cover," or "I can't grade all those different assignments," or "I thought I was differentiating." Use this guide to help participants review and understand critical pedagogical and curriculum issues as you lead discussions about effective ways to

• Identify individual students' learning styles
• Approach content in ways that give students choices
• Vary the process for achieving learning objectives
• Create different methods to assess what students learn
• Use assessments as teaching tools

This chapter-by-chapter study guide features

• Chapter summaries
• Discussion questions
• Timed activities
• Prompts for journal writing
• Practical applications
• Overheads and activity sheets
• A workshop evaluation form

Whether used to help lead independent studies, one-day workshops, or extended workshops, this guide gives facilitators a solid background to successfully lead trainings for groups of any size—pairs, small workshops, or large seminars.