iCare Podcast
This is a podcast about different topics, activities, or anything that has to do with K-12 Education. This podcast originated from the Tuscarawas-Carroll-Harrison Educational Service Center in New Philadelphia, Ohio. We decided to create this podcast because we CARE about education and how we can start teaching our students in the 21st Century. This podcast will help teachers, administrators, parents and students become aware of how we can start learning and teaching using 21st Century Skills and Tools.
This is a podcast about different topics, activities, or anything that has to do with K-12 Education. This podcast originated from the Tuscarawas-Carroll-Harrison Educational Service Center in New Philadelphia, Ohio. We decided to create this podcast because we CARE about education and how we can start teaching our students in the 21st Century. This podcast will help teachers, administrators, parents and students become aware of how we can start learning and teaching using 21st Century Skills and Tools.
Episode 1 - Differentiation
Differentiation is …
A philosophy that enables a teacher to strategically plan and carry out varied approaches to content, process, and product in anticipation of and response to student differences in readiness, interest, and learning needs.
Workshops in Ohio:
Differentiated Instruction: The More Ways We Teach, the More Students We Reach
with Jim Grant for Grades 1-8
Location: Cincinnati
Date: May 16, 2008
and
Location: Toledo
Date: May 15, 2008
Midwest Conference on Differentiated Instruction
Location: Columbus
Date: Jul 9-11, 2008
National and Regional Events:
Differentiated Instruction Administrator Summit 2008
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Date: Jul 19, 2008
National Conference on Differentiated Instruction
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Date: Jul 20-23, 2008
Two Day Inservice:
Differentiated Instruction: Theory Into Practice
Call for Info: 1.877.388.2054
Website Resources:
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Educational Web Adventures (EduWeb)
- The Vincent Van Gogh Gallery
- Enchanted Mind
- American Library
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Library of Congress, American Memory
- Primarily documents and photographs
- University of Virginia
- Many podcasts are available and there is a link to “Start Podcasting Now”
- The Ohio Association for Gifted Children
- The National Association for Gifted Children
- Access Excellence
- Association for the Education of Gifted Underachieving Students
- American Mensa, Ltd.
- Gifted Education Internet Resources by Art Snyder
- Consortium of Ohio Coordinators for the Gifted
- Davidson Institute for Talent Development
- Ohio Treasure Chest
- Many links to resources, assessments, and lesson plans for Ohio’s educators
- Math Practice
- Fun Math Games
- Brain Teasers and Puzzles
Articles mentioned in this podcast:
“If You Build It, They Will Come” … by Kathy Hargrove, In the Classroom Ph.D., Winter 2003 /Vol. 26, No. 1 (Hargrove)
“Mapping a Route Toward Differentiated Instruction, Educational Leadership by Carol Ann Tomlinson, September 1999
“Baby Steps: A Beginner’s Guide” Educational Leadership by Kari Sue Wehrmann, September 2000/Volume 58/Number 1
“Research Link/Preparing Teachers for Differentiated Instruction” by John Holloway, Educational Leadership/September 200/ Volume 58/ Number 1
“Web Wonders / Differentiation in the Classroom by Carolyn Pool, Educational Leadership/September 2000/Volume 58/Number1