portaportal

Adolescent Literacy

Building reading proficiency at the Secondary Level
Maine Literacy Portaportal
Metacognition is a comprehension strategy
Frayer Model
Reading Levels
Wordsplash Directions
For students to design their own Wordsplash for other students to use with Farewell to Arms

Coaching

DI

A Great powerpoint on DI includes checklists!
Delving into Differentiation / UMF students
Enchanted Learning
Great Info. on DI
This site has lots of links to all DI topics!
Overview of Differentiated Instruction
Roger Taylor
What DI is...What it is not...
NPS Sped
This site has instructual examples for reading, writing ,science, and math!
Tools For Schools
A 60 page resource guide that includes a self-assessment checklist for schools!
Lesson Planning by learning profile
ascd book .chapter 2 How To Differentiate in a mixed Ability Classroom by Carol Ann Tomlinson
Pod Cast
Universal Design for Learning

DI Math/Science

Excel Fractions
A sample of percent pictures
http://faculty.rmwc.edu/mentor_grant/Differentiated/di_example.htm
High School
The 5e Instructional model
A power point on the 5e instructional model. A constructivist approach to education.Engage,Explore,Explain, Extend, Evaluate!

DI Strategies

Anchor activities powerpoint
Great tiered lessons for all levels!
Six Thinking Hats activity
Six Thinking Hats Summary
Socratic seminar how to
Writing Great Exit Tickets
Great tools and strategies!
Problem based Learning
Project Based Learning Units-All Levels
Motivation and Project Based Learning
Backwards Planning
I Have...Who Has??-Books
You can buy books in Language Arts and Math , Grades 1-6 at this site!
35 Active Engagement Strategies
A great list put together in Montgomery, PA!
Great Differentation Strategies
Includes power points, templates, etc. for tiering, tic tac toe, and more
Think-Tac-Toe Chemistry
A great Sample for Think-Tac-Toe in sience
Internet for Classrooms:Differentiated Instruction
A site with lots of resources!

DI Templates

DI Templates
you must join to access..look worth it!
Citation Helpers

DI Theory- Articles

Great Web Sites

A Different Place
Excellent Articles From DI to Leadership Spokane PD Library
United Streaming
Sites that help classroom teachers
ProJect Based Learning Checklists
Design your own checklist for students!!!
timeline maker

Learning Styles

On-line learning styles questionniare
Brain Based Learning Links
Myer-Briggs Personality Types
good typology data
Learning Styles Elements
Test your own Learning Styles
Technology and Learning Styles
A list of instructional strategies for different learner styles assissted by technology!
Myers Briggs Types Characteristice
A great site to find out about MB
How Preferences Affect Learning
Learn how different Myers Briggs styles like to learn, study and be instructed!
Learning Profiles
See and experience on-line Learning Profile resources
4 MAT Learning Styles
The 4Mat curriculum development model allows the teacher to create a program that is engaging to a variety of different learning
Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire
on-line learning style inventory
Lesson Planning by Student learning Profile
ascd book .chapter 2 How To Differentiate in a mixed Ability Classroom by Carol Ann Tomlinson
4MAT Website
Look for free instructional planning download and a PPT overlays of 4MAT with other current instructional models
HS 4MAT Lesson Plans
1 lesson on History, 1 on Advanced English
Myers Briggs -Background information on the development of the instrument
4MAT Lesson Plan on Volcanos
Learning Styles
This is a site full of resources!
McCarthy's 4Mat Curriculum Development Model
The 4Mat curriculum development model allows the teacher to create a program that is engaging to a variety of different learnin
The Array Management Model
This knowledge will help you provide a classroom community that equips students to self-manage .
PD :Managing Reflective Growth
For teachers to use the Array Model to manage stress on the job!
Learner Profile
Oodles of Learning Profile resourses!
internet 4 classrooms
This site is FULL of resources for Differentiating!!!

Lesson Plans

Lesson Plans-All levels all subjects
Microsoft Lesson Plans
New York Times Lesson Plans
Tic Tac Toe Template and Teacher Designed Templates for Content Areas
A site to start to design a Tic-Tac-Toe sheet for your content!
Great Differentiation Strategies
Tic-Tac-Toe for Calculators in 8th grade Honors Math
A Template for creating a Cube
Science Activity with Cubing
Literacy Strategy-Cubing
Cubing/Think Dots
A good explanation of Cubing with examples.
R.A.F.T. Activity
Lots of examples
Project Based Learning
The site is intended to make available some accounts of successful projects undertaken by teachers .
The site provides, introduces, and explains Project Based Learning using both text and video.
You'll find all the resources you need to design and manage high quality projects for middle and high school students.

Multiple Intelligence Theory

David Lazear's Web Site
Love this author on MI!
Technology and Multiple Intelligences
Loads of sites showing how to incorporate these ideas into your teaching and learning!
Lesson Plan on MI for H S Students
3 Types of Intelligence
Intelligence theory developed by Robert Sternberg
Sternberg'sTriarchicTheory of Intelligence
MI Inventories
Several types of free inventories
Quick survey

Portaportals to Visit

Presenter Web Sites

Protocols (Looking at Student Work)

What are Protocols?
looking at student work
Coalition of Essential Schools
Learning and Teaching on line
NSRF Looking at Student Work
Peeling the Onion Propocol
Good for looking at a problem or challenge before try to solve it!

Questioning

A great site for all types of questions!
The Question is the Answer - Module maker
Essential Questions
MSN Power Point
A power point that has great slides on questioing
Backwards Planning Ess. ?

Reading/Writing

10th grade ELA R.A.F.T Activities
Gradual Release of Responsibility in reading
R.A.F.T acitivity for reading/writing
RAFT-general info
Sample Writing-to Learn assignments
Reading Strategies
These are great and have examples!
R.A.F.T. Directions and Samples
Math, Science, and Social Studies examples
Inspiration
Get a free 30 day trial of INSPIRATION. Students develop essential learning strategies as they create graphic organizers.
Designing Concept Maps-Inspiration
1 st video demo of 3 videos about Inspiration

Technology

Daily Links
Enchanted Learning
Internet Scavenger Hunt
Using Technology Presentations
E - SCRAPBOOKING
This website provides specific examples and strategies for creating electronic, educational, experiential, and engaging scrapboo
Rubistar
1st video of 3 videos demonstrating how to design rubrics.

Tiered Activities

Power Points

New Bloom's Taxonomy
A great powerpoint to explore higher level thinking
,Differentiated Instruction: Better Learning Through Better Instruction
Great PPT on DI

Math

Elementary Math Games
Lots of games
Music Through the Curriculum
- connecting music to reading, math and science -
Tic Tac Toe Menus
Calculators in 8th grade Honors Math

Elementary Level

Empowering Teachers
A site for K-3 teachers to differentiate by reading data

Cooperative Learning

This is a teacher created site
Many Cooperative Learning Structures