Differentiated Instruction for School Leaders

A Two-Day Workshop With Rick Wormeli
July 12-13, 2010
Reston, VA
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At its most basic, differentiated instruction is simply good teaching. When teachers say they don’t have time to differentiate instruction, they may be right – yet while there never seems to be enough time or resources to do everything we need to do, effective educators somehow manage to do it anyway. Join with colleagues across the country to learn practical tips on how school administrators and teacher-leaders can make differentiation not only doable, but a preferred practice in their schools.

Don’t miss this chance to re-energize your staff and re-ignite student learning! This seminar will provide important and applicable tools for any administrator or teacher-leader by helping you:

• Examine ways to differentiate lessons based on student needs
• Explore strategies such as tiering, scaffolding, flexible-grouping, respectful tasks
• Increase your repertoire of classroom management techniques
• Work more effectively with special populations such as ELL students, gifted students, special education students, etc.
• Investigate assessment strategies such as descriptive feedback, rubrics, assessment protocols, formative and common assessments, pacing guides, and evidence of mastery
• Examine how school and classroom grading policies impact differentiation practices
• Discuss “hot topics” of differentiated assessment such as retaking tests, homework, zeros on a 100 point scale, grading late work, report card design

About Rick Wormeli
One of the first Nationally Board Certified teachers in America, Rick brings innovation, humor, energy, validity and high standards to both his presentations, and his instructional practice, which includes almost 30 years teaching math, science, English, physical education, health, and history and coaching teachers and administrators. He has presented in all 50 states, Canada, China, Europe, Japan, Vietnam, Korea, Australia, the Middle East, the United States Senate, and at the White House.

He is a columnist for the National Middle School Association’s Middle Ground magazine and the author of Meet Me in the Middle, Day One and Beyond, Fair Isn’t Always Equal: Assessment and Grading in the Differentiated Classroom, Differentiation: From Planning to Practice (Grades 6-12), Metaphors & Analogies: Power Tools for Teaching any Subject (all from Stenhouse Publishers) and Summarization in any Subject (ASCD). His classroom practice is the showcase for the DVD set of ASCD's best-selling series, "At Work in the Differentiated Classroom," and he is a contributing author to Middle School Matters, and Because You Teach, published by Incentive Publications. 

Rick lives in Herndon, VA, with his wife and two high school-aged children. He is currently working on his first young adult fiction novel and a new education book on 21^st century homework practices.