In this one-stop resource for middle and high school teachers, Kristina J. Doubet and Jessica A. Hockett explore how to use differentiated instruction to help students be more successful learners -- regardless of background, native language, learning style, motivation, or school savvy. They explain how to

* Create a healthy classroom community in which students' unique qualities and needs are as important as the ones they have in common.
* Translate curriculum into manageable and meaningful learning goals that are fit to be differentiated.
* Use pre-assessment and formative assessment to uncover students' learning needs and tailor tasks accordingly.
* Present students with avenues to take in, process, and produce knowledge that appeal to their varied interests and learning profiles.
* Navigate roadblocks to implementing differentiation.

Each chapter provides a plethora of practical tools, templates, and strategies for a variety of subject areas developed by and for real teachers. Whether you're new to differentiated instruction or looking to expand your repertoire of DI strategies, Differentiation in Middle and High School will show you classroom-tested ways to better engage students and help them succeed every day.

In this comprehensive resource for elementary school teachers, Kristina J. Doubet and Jessica A. Hockett explore how to use differentiated instruction to help students be more successful learners--regardless of background, native language, learning preference, or motivation. They explain how to

• Create a healthy classroom community in which students' unique qualities and needs are as important as the ones they have in common.
• Translate curriculum into manageable and meaningful learning goals that are fit to be differentiated.
• Use pre-assessment and formative assessment to uncover students' learning needs, tailor tasks accordingly, and ensure that students are getting it.
• Provide interactive learning experiences that encourage students to engage with both the content and one another.
• Present students with avenues to take in, process, and produce knowledge that appeal to their varied interests and learning preferences.
• Navigate potential roadblocks to differentiation.

Each chapter provides a plethora of practical tools, templates, and strategies for a variety of subject areas developed by and for real teachers. Whether you're new to differentiated instruction or looking to expand your repertoire of DI strategies, Differentiation in the Elementary Grades will show you classroom-tested ways to better engage students and help them succeed every day. Includes URL and password for free downloadable forms.

Want to make your instruction more equitable and effective, more interesting, and more fun? It's time to try flexible grouping.

Unlike traditional grouping, which typically puts like with like or combines students without regard to the best way to promote their individual growth, flexible grouping is both purposeful and fluid, regularly combining and recombining different students in different ways to pursue a wide range of academic and affective goals.

In this comprehensive guide to flexible grouping, author Kristina J. Doubet shares a staged implementation approach that takes students from simple partner set-ups designed to build cooperative skills to complex structures ideal for interest and readiness-informed academic exploration. She covers the key factors to consider when forming groups and highlights how this approach to organizing learning can help you disrupt rigid tracking, deliver targeted instruction, connect to student interests, boost collaboration, and build community.

Focused, practical, and written for teachers of all subjects and grade levels, The Flexibly Grouped Classroom provides

* Dozens of strategies to expand your instructional repertoire, along with links to additional models and resources;
* Guidance on setting the tone and expectations for group tasks, ideas for student role distribution, and tips for monitoring progress, noise, and time;
* A planning template and sample grouping plans for an elementary and secondary classroom; and
* Specific troubleshooting advice to help you navigate common complications.

Choosing to make your classroom a flexibly grouped one means positioning every student to learn better--without feeling superior or inferior, without being overburdened or underchallenged--and to discover for themselves how much farther they can go together than they ever could alone.

In this laminated guide, Kristina J. Doubet and Eric M. Carbaugh share a purposeful and systematic way to combine traditional face-to-face schooling with online instruction to help learners achieve a variety of outcomes. Written for K-12 teachers in all subject areas, the guide covers

* The five principles and seven components of effective blended learning.
* A collection of tools for digital implementation.
* Examples of blended learning in action.
* Tips for assessment and management success.

These principles and practices will help teachers design and implement blended instruction that is cohesive and engaging.

8.5 x 11 3-panel foldout guide (6 pages), laminated for extra durability and 3-hole-punched for binder storage.