The Ultimate Guide to Differentiation
Achieving Excellence for All
Published on 8. March 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-1-4729-4896-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book is the ultimate guide to differentiation and adaptive teaching in early years, schools and further education settings by Sue Cowley, bestselling author of Getting the Buggers to Behave. It offers over 90 practical and time-saving strategies in every classroom - the revised edition, The Ultimate Guide to Adaptive Teaching, will be available from June 2025.
The Ultimate Guide to Differentiation demonstrates how teachers already differentiate and adapt their teaching much of the time, in subtle and creative ways. Sue Cowley shows that we need to understand, acknowledge and celebrate the variety of approaches that teachers already use, as well as helping them to develop additional strategies. The book takes the reader through the different methods and approaches to differentiation and adaptive teaching, providing a step-by-step guide to each. It is broken down into five core areas - planning, resources, learners, teaching and assessment - and readers can dip in and out to find strategies as and when they need them.
Written in Sue's much loved realistic, honest and practical style, The Ultimate Guide to Differentiation will help teachers, practitioners and support staff to feel confident that they are meeting the needs of every learner.
The Ultimate Guide to Differentiation demonstrates how teachers already differentiate and adapt their teaching much of the time, in subtle and creative ways. Sue Cowley shows that we need to understand, acknowledge and celebrate the variety of approaches that teachers already use, as well as helping them to develop additional strategies. The book takes the reader through the different methods and approaches to differentiation and adaptive teaching, providing a step-by-step guide to each. It is broken down into five core areas - planning, resources, learners, teaching and assessment - and readers can dip in and out to find strategies as and when they need them.
Written in Sue's much loved realistic, honest and practical style, The Ultimate Guide to Differentiation will help teachers, practitioners and support staff to feel confident that they are meeting the needs of every learner.
Reviews / Votes
Sue Cowley has done a tremendous job. This book is comprehensive, balanced, eminently sensible and written with Sue's customary flair and warmth. It emphasises that effective differentiation is as much about relationships, awareness and understanding of each individual learner as it is about grand strategies. Sue offers numerous practical suggestions for how this understanding can be built and successful learning secured. -- Jill Berry, leadership consultant and former headteacher, @jillberry102 Differentiation is not just a word; it's being a thoughtful and reactive teacher and making evidence-based, rational decisions. Sue Cowley manages to develop practical ideas, rooted in classroom reality, that stimulate thinking about children and their needs in an investigative process of constant reflection and refinement. -- Chris Chivers, university tutor, consultant, blogger and former primary headteacher, @ChrisChivers2 The book demonstrates how teachers already differentiate much of the time, in subtle and creative ways - maybe even without knowing it. Sue Cowley shows that we need to understand, acknowledge and celebrate the variety of approaches that teachers already use to differentiate, as well as helping them to develop additional strategies. -- Parents in Touch ...it prompts thought; it asks great questions; it offers ways to implement strategies, useful to the NQT and senior leader alike. -- Clare Jarmy, TES Sue Cowley shows that we need to understand, acknowledge and celebrate the variety of approaches that teachers already use to differentiate, as well as helping them to develop additional strategies. -- Teacher Toolkit What a magical little book. Teaching student teachers how to differentiate is so hard because it is just good teaching! This book breaks these areas of good teaching down and offers snippets of useful advice. Another one for the recommended reading list. -- Chrissy Holbrey, Senior Lecturer, Leeds Beckett University, Carnegie School of EducationMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
232 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4729-4896-0 (9781472948960)
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E-Book
03/2018
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Education
€21.99
Available for download
E-Book
03/2018
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Education
€21.99
Available for download
Person
Sue Cowley is a bestselling education author and an internationally renowned presenter and teacher trainer. She has experience teaching in early years, primary and secondary settings. She currently helps to run her local preschool, does training and consultancy work for schools and organisations across the world, and writes a regular blog. Follow Sue on Twitter @Sue_Cowley for regular teaching tips and advice!
Content
Introduction
Chapter 1: Planning
Chapter 2: Resources
Chapter 3: The Learners
Chapter 4: The Teacher and the Teaching
Chapter 5: Assessment
Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 1: Planning
Chapter 2: Resources
Chapter 3: The Learners
Chapter 4: The Teacher and the Teaching
Chapter 5: Assessment
Conclusion
Bibliography