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Carol Ann Tomlinson is an American educator, author and speaker. She is known for her work with techniques of differentiation in education. Tomlinson is a reviewer for eight journals and has authored over 200 articles, books, and other professional development materials.

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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.

Class, Needs, Student, Teacher, Teaching

I think [testing] has had a profoundly problematic impact on student learning. It must seem to students that their worth as individuals is equivalent to their test score. The stress the high stakes culture has on teachers is also highly negative and must surely impact students in a negative way. It also de-professionalizes teachers because it encourages them to be script readers, followers of rigid schedules, and to disregard the needs of the people they teach in favor of the scripts and schedules.

Teacher, Stress, Thinking, Favor, Readers, Encourages

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

Activity, Balance, Challenge, Challenges, Skills

Accepting both the opportunity and the responsibility evokes a great deal of humility.

Evokes, Humility, Opportunity, Responsibility

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.

Classroom, Effective, Kids, Reality, Teacher, Teachers

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.

Culture, Know, People, Running, Stakes

Readiness is a student’s entry point relative to a particular understanding or skill.

Entry, Point, Skill, Skills, Students, Understanding

I have find that today's students are often more tolerant of human variance than students in earlier generations might have been. On the other hand, some of our students need much more interaction with a wide variety of peers so they level of understanding deepens and so they are prepared to live in a world that is only going to get smaller.

Generations, Hands, Peers, Today, Understanding, Variance

We have students at the university say on a regular basis, "You're asking us to think and no one has ever done that in school. "

Asking, Regular, Say, School, Thinking

In my experience, professionals who are best in any field approach their work with humility. They know that their work is more than just a job. It's an exploration of life. Even on days when they feel most confident, things can go wrong. Sometimes even the good things that happen are a mystery - a surprise. There are always elements outside our control. That's humbling - or should be.

Days, Elements, Field, Humility, Jobs, Professionals

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.

Content, Goal, Needs, Point, Student, Students

In the field of education, educators know that they leave a lasting impact on their students for better or for worse. Trust is established or diminished in the classroom and very good educators understand that they are fallible. Despite their best efforts, they will not always do the best for each student.

Best Effort, Fields, Impact, Leave, Students

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.

Already, Doe, Fully, Teacher, Teaching

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.

Asking Questions, Continue, Educators, Questions, Taught, Years

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.

Creating, Known, Long, Meeting, Safety, Students

[Students] often have a "We can figure this out - don't just tell us" attitude. In that way, they can be less patient with "traditional" approaches to teaching.

Attitude, Figure, Teaching, Tell, Traditional, Way

It's important to know how to lead and manage a classroom with flexibility. Students of all ages are quite capable of learning these routines and contributing to their success once the teacher is comfortable guiding students in that direction.

Age, Ages, Contributing, Important, Teacher

Interest refers to student’s affinity, curiosity, or passion for a particular topic or skill.

Curiosity, Passion, Refers, Skill, Skills

We need teacher educators who regularly spend a great deal of time in classrooms so they have a deep understanding of where they students will teach.

Deep Understanding, Educators, Needs, Regularly, Teacher, Understanding

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.

Educators, Hungry, Needs, Teacher, Teaching, Work

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