Carol Ann Tomlinson Quotes

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• Differentiation is simply a teacher attending to the learning needs of a particular student or small groups of students, rather than teaching a class as though all individuals in it were basically alike.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Teaching, Class

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• Differentiated Instruction is a teaching philosophy based on the premise that teachers should adapt instruction to student differences. Rather than marching students through the curriculum lockstep, teachers should modify their instruction to meet students' varying readiness levels, learning preferences, and interests. Therefore, the teacher proactively plans a variety of ways to 'get it' and express learning.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Philosophy, Teaching

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• In differentiated classrooms, teachers begin where students are, not the front of a curriculum guide.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Curriculum, Students

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• Differentiation is classroom practice that looks eyeball to eyeball with the reality that kids differ, and the most effective teachers do whatever it takes to hook the whole range of kids on learning.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Kids, Reality

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• A teacher in a differentiated classroom does not classify herself as someone who ‘already differentiates instruction.’ Rather that teacher is fully aware that every hour of teaching, every day in the classroom can reveal one more way to make the classroom a better match for its learners.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Teaching, Doe

  Carol Ann Tomlinson (2001). “How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed-Ability Classrooms, 2nd Edition”, p.29, ASCD

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• Assessment is today's means of modifying tomorrow's instruction.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Mean, Assessment, Today

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• We need to develop a robust set of tools - strategies and routines - that help us address student variance. It's easy to come to rely on two or three "trusty" instructional strategies like worksheets and lectures. Those are of little help in planning for a variety of student needs. As we develop a better toolbox, we're empowered to meet students where they are.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Two, Three, Needs

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• Creating a classroom environment that encourages students to take the risk of learning. We've known for a long time that when students lack a sense of safety or of belonging or of contribution, learning takes second place to meeting those needs.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Creating, Safety, Long

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• As educators we need to understand that there is no finish line in our work.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Lines, Needs, Educator

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• Teachers craft classrooms that are good matches for their teaching styles as well as for learner needs.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Teaching, Style

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• Plan to be better today, but don't ever plan to be finished

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teaching, Learning, Today

  Carol Ann Tomlinson (2014). “The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners, 2nd Edition”, p.10, ASCD

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• The central job of schools is to maximize the capacity of each students.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Jobs, School, Students

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• Until a teacher learns to use elements like time, space, materials, groupings, and so forth flexibly, it's incredibly difficult to teach students as they need to be taught.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Space, Needs

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• It is not so important to have all the answers as to be hungry for them.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teaching, Important, Answers

  Carol Ann Tomlinson (2014). “Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners, 2nd Edition”, p.48, ASCD

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• Important element is deeply understanding our curriculum. Most teachers know what they're going to cover this week or this term. Few of us can specify precisely what students should know, understand, and be able to do as a result of any particular learning experience or set of learning experiences. Without that specificity, alignment between content, assessment, and instruction is weak.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Assessment, Understanding

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• We need teacher educators who are hungry to learn about and implement contemporary approaches to teaching and learning in their own classrooms and who are reflective about their work with their students.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Teaching, Needs

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• We need to understand where are students are at any point during a unit - in other words, what each student actually knows, understands, and can do at a given time based on the content goals we've established.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Goal, Needs, Students

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• A gifted teacher has an unfailing eye for magical classrooms & loses sleep over anything less than the highest quality.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Teaching, Sleep

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• We're teaching a generation of students who've been schooled to produce quick, right answers on demand. They are not comfortable with ambiguity. The implications of that in the long term are discomforting.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teaching, Long, Generations

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• When challenge and skills are in balance the activity is its own reward

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Skills, Challenges, Balance

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• The best educators I have met never stop asking questions. Some of them have taught for forty years and continue to be energized by new possibilities.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Years, Asking Questions, Taught

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• I have little interest in a surgeon who says, "I learned that when I was in medical school. Why should I revisit it?" or who says, "I've done that operation the same way for ten years. Don't bother me with new approaches." I see teaching in the same way.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teaching, School, Years

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• We can always gain more depth and breadth in our work [as educators]. There are always new discoveries to be made.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Discovery, Gains, Depth

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• We aren't quite sure what we're trying to differentiate, and therefore can't quite see how to do it other than giving some students more to cover and some less. That rarely works.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Giving, Trying, Students

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• The high stakes test culture runs almost totally counter to what we know about how people learn. It causes us to engage in professional malpractice on a regular basis.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Running, People, Causes

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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