This book demonstrates how to make your classroom more responsive to the needs of individual students with a wide variety of learning styles, interests, goals, cultural backgrounds, and prior knowledge. Focusing on grades 6 through 12, this book showcases classroom-tested activities and strategies.

Differentiated Instruction: A Guide for Middle and High School Teachers shows you how to vary your instruction so you can respond to the needs of individual learners. The concrete examples in this book demonstrate how you can use differentiated instruction to clarify:
• the content (what you want students to know and be able to do)
• the process (how students are going to go about learning the content)
• and the product (how they will show you what they know.)

This book is uniquely interactive. It features "Reflections" to help you understand your teaching style and guide you towards developing habits of mind which result in effective differentiated instruction.

Also included is a chapter on teaching students whose native language is not English.

Administrators (as well as teachers) will benefit from a chapter which highlights examples of how middle and high school administrators can successfully institute, motivate, and sustain differentiated instruction in their schools.

From the foreword by Heidi Hayes Jacobs
"As an instructional coach, Amy Benjamin is the ultimate professional. The practical strategies recommended in this book will increase student productivity and increase performance results. Staff developers, curriculum writers, and instructors have much to value in these pages." (208 pp., 2002)