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Handbook of Research on Learner-Centered Approaches to Teaching in an Age of Transformational Change
In education, the process of modifying or altering instruction or lessons to more successfully teach diverse learners.
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Designing Problem Posing Mathematics Lessons for Remote Instruction: Discovering Geometry and Measurement Relationships
Terri L. Kurz (Arizona State University, USA) and Skylar Bloom (Arizona State University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-4240-1.ch009
Abstract
When teaching elementary children remotely, it is imperative that they are provided with an opportunity to thoughtfully evaluate mathematical concepts. Learning must go beyond rote memorization and the recalling of information. Rather, there needs to be a focus on discovery of connections and concepts. The focus of this chapter is guiding students to discover features of shapes using tools and technology through remote instruction with an emphasis on problem posing. Activities are provided to help intermediate elementary students explore the impact that doubling or tripling dimensions has on perimeter and area for two-dimensional shapes and surface area and volume for three-dimensional shapes. Activities that increase in difficulty as well as extensions are provided to differentiate instruction. Lessons are designed to use technology to promote discovery of mathematical relationships using technology. Strategies for remote lesson plan design in mathematics are provided.
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Instruction-Expanded Virtual Education Model: Shaping Cognitive Enrichment, Engagement, and Access
The recognition and response to various learning needs within a classroom through the modification and adaptation of content, process, product, or environmental factors.
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Preparing and Training Higher Education Faculty to Ensure Quality Online Learning and Teaching
The practice of modifying the content (i.e., curriculum and materials), process (i.e., instructional methods, technique, or strategy), or product (i.e., assessment) to meet the learning needs of students (especially those students with a learning disability).
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Blessed Rage for Order: The Evolution of a GATE Educator
Popularized by Carol A. Tomlinson and Joyce VanTassel-Baska, differentiation for gifted and talented students refers to the modification of instructional processes, products, concepts, and learning environments in order to more responsively address the advanced learning needs of individual gifted learners and/or small groups of advanced learners. By utilizing features for instructional adaptation such as acceleration, complexity, depth, challenge, creativity, and abstractness, teachers can better meet the unique needs of gifted, talented, and advanced students.
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The Effects of Private Label Brand Strategies on Consumer Perception
The strategy to distinguish one product with the competitor’s product.
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Planning Purposeful Parent Involvement: A Multi-Level Approach
Individualizing based on interests, abilities, strengths, challenges, needs, and/or cultural factors.
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Learning Disabilities: Preparing Students for Higher Education Through Guidance in Inclusive and Diverse Backgrounds
In the classroom the curriculum and instruction to each student's needs in order to accommodate their differences. Teachers plan learning opportunities by supplying resources and assignments with different levels of difficulty, help, grouping, and surroundings. In contrast to a “one size fits all” curriculum, this strategy (Reis & Renzulli, 2018).
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Professional Development for Technology Integration into Differentiated Math Instruction
Adapt instruction based upon students’ interests, learning styles, and readiness, which are critical elements to consider in attempting to address the diverse needs of students.
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Strengthening the Significance of Data Analytics: Championing Organizational Design
The process of making products or organization different from others in competition.
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The Power of Peers: Setting a Course for 21st Century Skills in Inclusive Classrooms
A process that informs the design and delivery of more customized instruction to meet the needs of diverse students and supports the learning of all students.
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Fighting Through COVID-19 for Educational Continuity: Challenges to Teachers
Pedagogical arrangements that suit an individual’s special needs for learning.
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A Voice and a Choice: My Journey From 2x Learner to 2x Teacher
The process of differentiation is the deliberate adaptation and modification of the curriculum, instructional processes, and assessments to respond to the needs of gifted learners.
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Differentiation for the Gifted: Opportunities Provided by Distance-Online Education
This means a reorganization of the standard program for students whose characteristics don't exactly match with the program, regardless of grade level or any education-level course.
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Amplifying the Significance of Systems Thinking in Organization
The process of making products or organization different from others in competition.
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Integrating Simulations Across a Curriculum
A method of evaluating a degree program and creating instructional components that make the degree program stand out from others in the university.
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Realizing Diversity: COVID's Impact on Inclusive Classroom Learning
The creation of classroom lessons that organically create multiple methods for students to acquire content and display growth and learning.
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Capturing Educator Voices: Graduate Students Tackle Twenty-First Century Literacy Challenges in an Online Environment
Adapt instruction based upon students’ interests, learning styles, and readiness, which are critical elements to consider in address the diverse needs of online graduate students.
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Escape Room for Organisation Design: International Development of Nude Project
This term refers to the degree to which an organisation divides its tasks and activities into distinct subunits or departments. Differentiation involves the creation of specialisations within the organisation to handle specific functions. The greater the differentiation, the more departments or specialised units exist in the organisation. Daft suggests that differentiation can increase efficiency in certain circumstances, but it can also create challenges in terms of coordination and communication between units ( Daft, 2011 ).
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A Professional Development Framework for the Flipped Classroom Model: Design and Implementation of a Literacy and Math Integrated Professional Development Initiative
Adapt instruction based upon students’ interests, learning styles, and readiness, which are critical elements to consider in attempting to address the diverse needs of students.
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CLIL (Materials) for All?
Within a classroom giving different assignments, support, evaluations depending on the needs of the learners in the class, in order to have all the learners reach the same goal. Everybody must reach the same goal, but the road towards that goal does not need to be the same.
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Transforming Mathematics Teacher Knowledge in the Digital Age through Iterative Design of Course-Based Projects
Differentiation is a framework we use for providing a diverse range of students with different avenues for learning.
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Digital Differentiation in Gifted Education
It is a strategy that is used for the adaptation of the content, process and product, components of the curriculum according to the readiness, interest and learning profile of students.
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Do Teachers Who Are Differentiating Show Evidence of Their Own Giftedness?: A Review of Recent Findings
A term used to describe content, process, product, and assessment accommodations for high ability learners.
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Strategic Communication in Crisis: Winning May (Not) Be Everything
A statement showing the difference between the current crisis and one that could have been much worse.
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Sea Queens: Indirect Interaction Model of LGBTIQ+ Narrative Exploration in the Classroom
The act of allowing a multitude of possible choices for the students so that they may personalize their learning according to their needs and wants. A synonym for student ownership in their learning.
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Addressing the Teacher Recruitment and Retention Dilemma in Rural Settings: Preparing Teachers for Rural Poverty
Providing instruction in a different way to accommodate the individual and unique needs of learners. Students who receive differentiation are provided with modifications in the learning process or the product they create to demonstrate understanding.
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Digital Differentiation as a Form of Pedagogical Creativity
The process of adjusting the instruction according to students’ readiness, interest and learning profiles. This adjusting is carried out in the different elements of the curriculum: content, process, and product.
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Harnessing the Power of Differentiation: A Case of Indian Business Schools
It is the process of occupying a different and distinguished image in the minds of customer with respect to the services it is offering.
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Modeling Gene Regulatory Networks with Delayed Stochastic Dynamics
also known as “cellular differentiation”, the process by which a cell type becomes another cell type, usually more specialized.
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Toward Racially-Just Multilingual Classroom Pedagogy: Transforming Learning Centers for the K-5 Classroom
Creating a wide variety of learning experiences and opportunities, acknowledging the inherent diversity of students’ learning styles, interests, and backgrounds.
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Building Connections Between Teacher Education Candidates and Urban Middle School Students Through Social Action: A Community Literacy Partnership
Adapt instruction based upon students’ interests, learning styles, and readiness, which are critical elements to consider in addressing the diverse needs of students.
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Differentiation for Today's Gifted Learners
Making adaptations in a lesson’s content, the way an instructor delivers instruction, the products students create to show their learning, or the environment so that all students’ learning needs are met.
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Leadership in a Time of Crisis: Jim Tressel's Ousting from The Ohio State University
A statement showing the difference between the current crisis and one that could have been much worse.
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Bye-Bye Basal: Multimodal Texts in the Classroom
A teaching approach that customizes instructional methods based on the academic needs of individual or groups of students.
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Gifted and Talented: Critical Issues Related to Advanced Learners
Modifying the content learned, the process of learning, and the products created to meet the individual needs of learners.
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Amplifying the Significance of Systems Thinking in Organization
The process of making products or organization different from others in competition.
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Best Practices in Teacher Preparation for Inclusive Education
The practice of providing differentiated content, assignments and delivery of instruction based on student needs.
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Marketing Global Luxury Spa and Wellness Trends, Experiences, and Challenges
Separation. If a company has a distinct differentiation; that means a company has unique characteristic that separates itself from among its competitors. What separates the company from its competitors?
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Inclusive Pedagogies and Social Justice for Transforming Teaching and Learning in South African Classrooms: Inclusive Pedagogies in Education
This is ensuring that learners are provided with various opportunities to learn. It can happen at different levels during the teaching and learning process that is at the level of content and the level of assessment.
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Integrating Multicultural Practices to Ensure Success for Diverse Learners
Utilizing different evidence-based strategies to ensure student success.
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Traditional Herbs, Spices, and Plants as a Source of Novel Antibiofilm Compounds
Differentiation refers to the process by which unspecialized or less-specialized cells acquire specialized structures and functions.
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Eco-Labels
It is defined as contrast among two things.
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Diversity in the Foreign Language Classroom: A Social Virtual Reality Project
Means changing pace, level, or kind of instruction a teacher provides in response to individual learners' needs, styles, or interests. It involves tailoring instructional methods, content, and assessment to meet the diverse needs and learning styles of individual students in one classroom.
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A Differentiation of Restaurant Types Based on Customers' Perceived Attributes: A Study in Tokyo
The division of the customer and restaurant markets into distinguishable groups or segments.
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Trends in Information Technology Governance
The state of segmentation or division of an organizational system into subsystems, each of which tends to develop particular attributes in relation to the requirements posed by the relevant environment. This includes both the formal division, as well as, behavioral attributes of the members of organizational subsystems.
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Human Capital Management for Sustainable Competitive Advantage in the New Economy
Uniqueness of a firm in its industry along some dimensions that are widely valued by buyers.
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Humanizing Online Assessment: Screencasting as a Multimedia Feedback Tool for First Generation College Students
A teaching strategy which involves the instructor shifting the content in a way that meets the needs and skill levels of individual students vs. the students as a collective.
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