Gifted and Talented:

  21st Century Skills

           *  Life and Career Skills for gifted/talented

           *   Critical Thinking Skills Math

           *   Critical Thinking Skills Science

   Using Exemplar Tasks

         *   Edutopia, videos

         *   Authentic Assessment Toolbox,   click examples   (left side of page)

         *   NAEP, click search options button

         *   Balanced Assessment,   Harvard's College of Education

         *   GaDOE Units and Tasks

         *   SIS Math Sites,   scroll to bottom of the page

         *   SIS GPS Training, Day 3

Struggling Students

  1.  Graphic Organizers:

          *  Education Oasis

          * Education Place Graphic Organizers:  (List of .pdf files)

          * Enchanted Learning

          * EverythingESL

          * Examples in .pdf files

          * Freeology (includes Cornell Note Taker)

          * North Central Regional Education  Laboratory: (Examples & Descriptions)

           * Scholastic: Reading

           *  SCORE from California for Language Arts

           * TeacherVision: Graphic Organizers by  Subject

       2. Content-Area Literacy Instruction (CALI)

            * Word Walls - with graphics 

               (Marzano’s  Essential Nine, #5 Nonlinguistic)

      3. Low-Prep and High Prep Strategies

           *  Menu Options: Rolling Cube

         (Marzano's Essential Nine Instructional Strategies, #9)

 Strategies for

Organizing the Classroom to

Meet Different Student Needs

1.   Organizing the Environment  (management examples)

2.   Notebook: rubric,    assignment log (grades)

3.    Collecting Productivity, maximizing instructional time

4.   Summarize tasks or procedures in students own words and record

      in notebooks. (Marzano's,  #2)

5.   Model note taking for students using overhead notes for 

      notebooks.  (organized overhead)   

       Marzano's, #2)

6.  Homework: Feedback through classroom key, classroom

     corrections,  teacher's verbal commentary

     and notebook file.  (add to assignment log )  (Marzano's, #4)

Differentiated Instruction: 

         1.  Traditional Instruction vs Differentiated Instruction

         2.   Enhance Learning with Technology

         3.  Adjust Your Teaching Style

         4.  Strategies for Differentiating Instruction  

         5.  Differentiated Instruction by Internet 4 Classrooms

         6.  Bloom's Taxonomy

         7. Questioning Toolkit

Articles:

          1. The Partnerships for 21st Century Skills

          2.  enGuage 21st Century Skills

          3.  Examples for implementing 21st Century  Learning Skills (by disciplines)

          4. Brain Research: Implications to Diverse Learners 

 Research for Differentiated Instruction: Marzano's Essential Nine Instructional Strategies, #9

Strategies for Students with Disabilities

GaDOE Pyramid of Interventions (.pdf)

    Learning Disabilities Association (strategies)

   The Access Center (differentiated chart)