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ALL-ED is a Framework that Supports Teacher Decision-Making around Differentiated Instruction
cogsHow Does ALL-ED Support Differentiated Instruction?
ALL-ED is a Framework that Supports Teacher Decision-Making around Differentiated Instruction

ALL-ED defines differentiated instruction in terms of teacher decision-making.

Differentiated Instruction is a continuous teacher decision-making process where teachers search for and respond to academic diversity that will either strengthen or impede effective learning within a community.

Teacher decision-making for differentiated instruction begins when teachers observe students learning and look at student work.

For example, look at these images of the Five Little Pumpkins Sitting on A Fence. What are some of the skills students are demonstrating here? As we look at more student work we may find that some students have mastered certain skills such as organization and have background knowledge of farms and are writing letters. Other students may be struggling with visual motor skills or excelling in trying novel ideas. The perception of these differences among students launches a teacher’s response of differentiated instruction to ensure that all learner’s needs are being met.

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How Does ALL-ED Support Differentiated Instruction?

The ALL-ED framework is intentionally built using self-regulation and motivation theories and research on cognitive science because in the classroom, differentiated instruction is the decision-making process teachers use to notice student differences that impact learning and to use instruction to leverage differences or eliminate differences that prevent learning.  Often, it is easy to focus on instructional strategies grouped by low-preparation and high-preparation or by easy to hard problems, overlooking the observation that lead to the need or the instructional goal for these different assignments.  Without a clear instructional goal based on observations from student work, it is difficult to evaluate the impact of differentiated instruction.  ALL-ED helps teachers use self-regulated learning themselves in teaching and managing critical instructional decisions on their feet while instruction unfolds.  ALL-ED also aligns and encourages teachers to integrate research related to differentiated instruction such as Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and Universal Design for Learning because teachers need to be able to think with evidence-based practices for effectively search for and respond to academic diversity.

How is the ALL-ED framework aligned with Differentiated Instruction as defined by different experts?  See definitions below.

Carol Tomlinson
Universal Design for Learning
Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
Carol Tomlinson

Differentiation is responsive teaching rather than one size fits all teaching (Tomlinson, 2005). This means that teachers proactively plan varied approaches to what students need to learn, how they will learn it, and/or how they will show what they have learned in order to increase the likelihood that each student will learn as much as he or she can, as efficiently as possible (Tomlinson, 2003).

Learn more at Differentiation Central

Universal Design for Learning
Universal Design for Learning(UDL)
is a set of principles for curriculum development that give all individuals equal opportunities to learn. UDL provides a blueprint for creating instructional goals, methods, materials, and assessments that work for everyone–not a single, one-size-fits-all solution but rather flexible approaches that can be customized and adjusted for individual needs.

Universal Design has its theoretical basis in Neuroscience, specifically the principles are related to three brain networks; recognition (what we learn), strategic (how we learn), and affective (why we learn). Learn more about UDL at CAST and the National Center on Universal Design for Learning.

Culturally Relevant Pedagogy

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