Using these pre-assessments will give teachers an idea of where they are starting with their students at the beginning of the year. In The New York Times, Dr. Susan Demirsky Allan, assistant ...

“The wide range of differences found among children when they first enter school is sufficient to tax the skill of the most capable teacher.” While teaching fifth grade, I had one student who was ...

Gearing up for a new school year always requires reflection and new learning. We often speak of differentiation and although I’ve been doing this awhile, I always have the nagging sense that I’m just ...

Today’s post is the second in a series on the hot-button issue of differentiated instruction. I teach an English as a second language (ESL) course at the university. I often am asked, “Professor, what ...

Since 1983, people have been talking about “multiple intelligences,” an idea proposed by Howard Gardner, a Harvard developmental psychologist, in his book Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple ...