Vertical Differentiation for Gifted, Advanced, and High-Potential Students outlines 25 engaging tools and strategies to stretch student thinking, promote deep learning, and provide layers of challenge in the classroom and beyond.
Each strategy is expertly designed to foster deep inquiry and conceptual understanding by guiding students to justify conclusions, apply critical and creative thinking, develop solutions to real-world problems, and transfer learning across contexts. Packed with both "tried and true" thinking models and new, innovative ideas with concrete examples, this resource ensures that no matter where students are in their learning journey, they’ll find themselves challenged and engaged.
This book is essential reading for educators looking to support and extend student thinking across content areas and grade levels.
Author(s): Emily L. Mofield
Publisher: Routledge/Prufrock Press
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 196
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Resources
About the Author
Introduction
1 What is Vertical Differentiation?
2 The Big Picture: Frameworks for Thinking
3 Strategies for Analysis
Strategy #1: Connections Web
Strategy #2: Wonder Window
Strategy #3: See Beyond
Strategy #4: Schema Board
Strategy #5: Inductive Reasoning—“Group, Re-Group, Here’s the Scoop”
Strategy #6: POWER Analysis
4 Strategies for Problem Solving: Understanding the Problem
Strategy #7: Iceberg of Why’s
Strategy #8: Cascade of Consequences
Strategy #9: Six Thinking Hats
5 Strategies for Problem Solving: Creating and Evaluating Solutions
Strategy #10: The SCAMPER Stretch
Strategy #11: Synectic Trigger Mechanisms
Strategy #12: SWOT (Evaluating Ideas)
Strategy #13: Should-Could-Would Criteria
6 Strategies for Creative Thinking: Making Connections
Strategy #14: Synectic Analogies
Strategy #15: Forced Associations
Strategy #16: Extended Synectics
Strategy #17: Metapatterns
7 Strategies for Constructing Arguments
Strategy #18: Argument Construction Model
Strategy #19: Balloon Debate
8 Strategies for Metacognition
Strategy #20: Johari Learning Window
Strategy #21: The Ripple Reflection
Strategy #22: Mind Maps
Strategy #23: Reflecting on Relevance
Strategy #24: WOOP—A Goal Attainment Strategy
Meta-affective Strategies
9 Planning for Deep Learning and Differentiation
Planning for Deep Learning
Planning for Differentiated Tasks
Strategy #25: “Show You Know” Board
Assessing for Understanding
Scaffolds and Supports for Students from Diverse Backgrounds/Twice-Exceptional
Appendix
Further Readings: Research/Theory to Practice
References
