As a former master teacher who holds current teaching certification, Kathy Tuchman Glass consults with schools and districts, presents at conferences, and teaches seminars for university and county programs delivering customized professional development. Glass has been in education for over 20 years and works with teachers at all levels in groups of varying sizes from one-on-one to entire school districts. She assists administrators and teachers with strategic planning to determine school or district objectives, and presents and collaborates on designing standards-based differentiated curriculum, crafting essential understandings and guiding questions, using compelling instructional strategies that engage all learners, incorporating various effective assessments into curriculum, using six-trait writing instruction and assessment, creating curriculum maps, and more.

In addition to this work, Glass has written Lesson Design for Differentiated Instruction, Grades 4-9 (2009), Curriculum Mapping: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Curriculum Year Overviews (2007), and Curriculum Design for Writing Instruction: Creating Standards-Based Lesson Plans and Rubrics (2005). In addition, Glass has served as a reader and reviewer for Reader's Handbook: A Student Guide for Reading and Learning (2002, Great Source Education Group) and as a contributing writer and consultant for the Heath Middle Level Literature series (1995, DC Heath and Co).

This user-friendly resource provides step-by-step guidance and a detailed template for creating meaningful lessons that are differentiated according to students' learning characteristics.

List of Figures
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
1. Differentiated Instruction and Strategies
Differentiated Instruction
Definition: Content, Process, Product
Student Characteristics: Readiness, Interest, Learning Profile
Differentiated Strategy Suggestions
2. Differentiated Lesson Design
Overview of Lesson Components
Comprehensive Differentiated Lesson Samples
3. Standards, Concepts, and Guiding Questions
How Do Teachers Develop Unit and Lesson Guiding Questions
How Do Teachers Use Guiding Questions in the Classroom?
4. Assessment in a Differentiated Classroom
Types of Assessments
Assessment Examples
5. Additional Lesson-Planning Components for Differentiated Curriculum
Resources
Timing
Skills and Activities
Student Grouping
Teaching Strategies
Extensions
6. Closing
References and Further Reading
Index