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Perspective featuring Melissa Storm & Lori Centerbar
Lori Centerbar is a teacher at Fredrick H. Tuttle Middle School in South Burlington, Vermont. Previously, she taught for seventeen years atMount Abraham Union High School. At Mount Abe, Lori began her collaboration with the Access Center when she worked as part of a steering committee of teachers interested in the implementation of Differentiated Instruction as a way to meet the needs of the diverse learners in their classrooms. At the same time, Lori was conducting her Masters Action Research in the area of differentiated instruction. Through both her research and her work with the ACCESS Center, Lori has been able slowly to experiment with and incorporate differentiated instruction strategies and to witness her students reap the benefits of greater enthusiasm, increased motivation, appropriate challenge, and personal success.
Dr. Melissa Storm has been at the American Institutes for Research for over three and a half years. During this time she has served as a Technical Assistance Liaison for the Access and assisted with developing products and presentations for the center, including a Professional Development model on Differentiated Instruction. Dr. Storm also works on meetings and communications projects under a task order contract for the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), U.S. Office of Education and she is a Technical Assistance Liaison for the newly funded National Center on Response to Intervention. She has been involved with the development of special education curriculum and training of new special education teachers for the last seven years. Dr. Storm taught special education for seven years in Louisiana,Colorado, and Virginia public schools. She earned her doctoral degree in Educational Psychology at the University of Virginia and her Master’s Degree in Special Education at the University of Colorado, Denver.
Differentiated Instruction: An Overview and One Classroom’s Transformation Presentation in PDF
Strategies for Differentiating Instruction (Handout 1)
Diner Menu—Photosynthesis (Handout 2)
Think-Tac-Toe (Handout 3)
Tiered Activity - Writing a Persuasive Essay (Handout 4)
Learning Contract (Handout 5)
Secondary Learning Contract (Handout 6)
Resources on Differentiated Instruction (Handout 7)
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Differentiation PowerPoint
The Access Center September 2007 Newsletter
Paraprofessional Time Management Tool in PDF
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WORKING TOGETHER: TEACHER-PARAEDUCATOR. COLLABORATION. Effective collaboration between teachers and paraeducators can help all students ...
www.k8accesscenter.org/training_resources/documents/Tchr-ParaCollaboration.pdf
The Access Center: Improving Outcomes for all Students K-8 in DOC
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Addison Northeast Supervisory Union Resource Digest. October 2006. In This Digest:. What’s New on the Access Center Website; Differentiated Instruction ...
www.k8accesscenter.org/documents/Digest10406.doc
The Access Center: Improving Outcomes for all Students K-8 in DOC
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Addison Northeast Supervisory Union Resource Digest. November 2004. In This Digest:. Send us Your Questions; What’s New on the Access Center Website ...
www.k8accesscenter.org/accessinaction/documents/Digest%20Two%2011.1.04.doc
Here are the titles of books we referenced in March 4 Differentiation Event:
- Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age Universal Design For Learning by David Rose and Anne Meyer
- How to Differentiate Instruction In Mixed-Ability Classrooms 2nd Edition, Carol Ann Tomlinson
- Differentiation in Practice a Resource Guide For Differentiating Curriculum Grades 9-12 by Carol Ann Tomlinson and Cindy A Strickland
All three books are published by ASCD- Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development- Alexandria, Virginia USA http:/www.ascd.org
Technical Centers Helpful for differentiation and universal design of learning.
- NIMAS Development and Technical Assistance Centers http://nimas.cast.org
- .Center for Applied Technology (CAST) http://cast.org
- Center for Implementing Technology in Education (Cited) http://citeducation.org.
- Center for Instruction http://www.centeroninstruction.org/
- .Intervention Central http://www.interventioncentral.org/
