Teacher tools: Curriculum differentiation
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Additional material on Curriculum differentiation is available on the Gifted and Talented Curriculum Support web site.

Curriculum differentiation tools for teachers
| Tool | Description | How to use this tool |
| Curriculum differentiation presentation (ppt 2489kb) | Ready to use pro forma matrix for Anderson-Krathwohl, Maker, Williams and Kaplan. | Useful pro forma frameworks for teachers to use for classroom programming. |
| Curriculum differentiation workbook (doc 383kb) | Ideas for GAT programming models and taxonomies including: QT, Bloom, Anderson-Krathwohl, Maker, Williams and Kaplan. | Useful pro forma models and some examples of units of work using these models and taxonomies. Suitable for teachers K-12. |
| Quality Teaching and curriculum planning (doc 292kb) | An example of how the Quality Teaching framework and gifted education unit of work can be programmed. | Suitable for teachers wishing to further understand the QT framework in relation to gifted programming. A unit of work suitable for Early Stage 1 teachers on Responsibility and well-being. |
| Needs of gifted students (pdf 51kb) | A Likert scale checklist to identify the cognitive and affective needs of gifted students by Joyce VanTassel-Baska et al (1988). | A most useful tool to assist teachers evaluate the degree to which a child shows gifted and talented characteristics. |
| Quality Teaching throughline (pdf 69kb) | A flowchart framework based on the Quality Teaching Model. | Effective framework for evaluating the effectiveness of a learning task. |
| Activities for differentiating (pdf 82kb) | GAT framework models from Maker, Williams, Kaplan. | Useful pro forma framework models for teachers to use for classroom programming. |
| Differentiating a unit of work template (doc 44kb) | A differentiated framework pro forma for a unit of work adapted from Tomlinson & McTighe (2006). | A useful program format for teacher programming. |


