What is differentiated instruction?

     Differentiated instruction is a teacher understanding that students came to him or her with different needs. In a way, it’s just shaking up the classroom so it’s a better fit for more kids. But to be a little more precise, it means that the teacher anticipates the differences in student’s readiness, differences in their interests, differences in their learning profiles – and as a result of that, creates different learning options or different paths to learning so that students have the opportunity to learn as much as they can, as deeply as they can, but without experiencing undue anxiety because the assignments are too taxing – or boredom because they are not challenging enough.

              ~Carol Ann Tomlinson