Differentiated Strategies and Assessments

Download the Differentiated Strategies for Instruction and Assessment Template. Locate a completed Virginia Lesson Plan in the content area of your choice.

Select the lesson plan of your choice from the Virginia Department of Education. Then, review the assignment requirements listed below and on the template.

Differentiating by Readiness

Determine how you will differentiate the content, process and products based on readiness. Provide a background to differentiating based on student readiness in light of content, process, and product.

You will fully explain the strategies you will use to differentiate the content, process and product of this lesson. Each strategy must be supported by research and each section should include at least one citation from the textbook and one additional peer-reviewed citation.

The template provides an explanation for each of these items and the exact structure for how you need to report these items. Follow the template.

Differentiating by Interest

Next you will determine how you will differentiate the content, process and products based on student interest. For this section of the template, you will provide a background to differentiating based on student interest in light of content, process, and product.

Fully explain the strategies you will use to differentiate the content, process, and product of this lesson. Each strategy must be supported by research and each section should include at least one citation from the textbook and one additional peer-reviewed citation.

Differentiating by Student Profile

Next, determine how you will differentiate the content, process and products based on student profile. Provide a background to differentiating based on student profile in light of content, process, and product. Fully explain the strategies you will use to differentiate the content, process, and product of this lesson.

Each strategy must be supported by research and each section should include at least one citation from the textbook and one additional peer-reviewed citation.

Assessment Creation and Response

Finally, you will select one of the products you discussed above and create a differentiated assessment to assess students’ understanding of the material presented. This assessment must be differentiated for multiple learners, align with the sample lesson plan, topic, grade level, and Virginia Standard of Learning you selected, and be ready for classroom use.

You may decide to create multiple assessments based the way you differentiate. You will need to create all the assessments needed in this portion of the assignment and submit the differentiated assessment(s) with the template.

In the Assessment Response portion of the template, you will explain the differentiated assessment you created, justify why you created the assessment the way you did, and support your justification with at least three citations.