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Art Education in Practice Series
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By Heather Fountain
Differentiated Instruction has become increasingly important in classrooms across the country, and now this resource adapts the leading theories, ideas, and best practices specifically for art educators. Bring your teaching to a whole new level as Heather Fountain guides you through her own journey of incorporating effective methods into practice in the artroom.
Differentiated Instruction in Art provides strategies that make learning meaningful, exciting, and accessible, taking into consideration students’ interests, readiness, and learning styles. There are suggestions for how to foster community in the artroom by empowering students in a variety of ways, including building choice into the process, content, and product in your lessons. 221 pages, softcover
What Is Differentiated Instruction?
As teachers, we have become increasingly aware of the broadening spectrum of abilities that students use to learn and acquire knowledge, and as a result, we are searching for ways to respond to students’ diverse needs. Differentiated Instruction, a term coined by teacher Carol Ann Tomlinson, uses a multifaceted approach to help teachers discover ways to meet the needs of all learners in the same classroom. Differentiated Instruction is not just a way of thinking about teaching and learning. It encompasses a collection of best practices and strategies that help teachers respond to the wide array of student needs present within their classrooms. At the very heart of DI is a teacher’s desire to maximize the potential of all their students by guiding them to achieve higher levels of learning success. Achieving such a goal is not always easy, but we can accomplish it through the proactive use of differentiation to design both spaces and learning experiences that provide all students of diverse learning styles the choices to access knowledge in different ways.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1: What Is Differentiated Instruction?
- Chapter 2: History and Foundations
- Chapter 3: Why Teach This Way?
- Chapter 4: One Teacher, Many Roles
- Chapter 5: Getting Started
- Chapter 6: Curriculum
- Chapter 7: Differentiated Lesson Examples
- Chapter 8: Tips for Success