Make a difference by differentiating differently
To keep pupils motivated and engaged
Who do we differentiate for?
Different levels of skill
Ability and proficiency
Experience
Motivation
Attendance
Social background
Social development
Emotional development
Physical needs
Types
By task
By outcome (this is lazy)
By support
By resources eg reading comprehension at differing levels of complexity
By interest
By variety
For ability by ability
Listening
Underlining the correct answer (shouldn't test their reading/writing too, shouldn't penalise someone because they can't write in the language)
Multiple choice
Put phrases in correct order
Smileys for positive / negative reactions (listen for tone of emotion first time round, do they sound happy, etc)
Video clips to offer clues (more like real life)
Give out the script
Hold up picture cards (eg weather forecast, hold up their card if hear their weather)
Speaking activities
Quiz quiz trade Q&A with model answers
Completing a survey with all answers where student has to tick boxes, not write stuff down
Allow cue cards - they can have these at GCSE and A level
Give out a list of "must includes" - train them eg fabby phrases
Speaking frames
Allow students to improvise
Use ICT (Dominic's talk yesterday)
Reading activities
Different or modified texts
Different presentations eg comics, websites, handwritten text, authentic pages eg www.le-sac-des-files.net
Different questions
Matching eg Tarsia http://changing-phase.blogspot.co.uk
Textivate
Questions in English
Multiple choice answers
Number the lines in a text and tell the students which line the answers are on
Writing activities
Writing frames - MFL Sunderland
Add a question at the bottom eg How could you personalise this?
Vocabulary and grammar lists
Vocabulary games eg wordsearches (differentiate by not giving words) extend by 10 subjects and 10 opinions then write sentences after done, crosswords
Write a poem, it must rhyme can make it funnier 
Mini whiteboards
Lego blocks - use this for Spanish colours? http://domsmflpage.blogspot.com
T1- Top and Tail Sue Cowley's Seven T's of Differentiation
Get students to use an exact number of words then build up a couple of words each time
Give students words to include (random or key words)
Student as teacher to group
Share good work and get others to explain whey
Level their own work and say why
Group student by mixed ability
T2 Time
Timers
Countdown timer eg Sandfields Benny Hill timer
T3 targets
Differentiate for one group of students per lesson - realistic, no time to do for all
Student of the week
Rewards - Classdojo
Some, most, all
T4 teamwork
Ability, friends, skills,
T5 thinking skills
Poster, paragraph, podcast
"HOTS not MOTS" Peter Anstee 2010 higher order thinking skills not more of the same
SNOT Self, neighbour, other, teacher (see three before me)
T6 texts
Use authentic texts - magazines, newspapers, comics (real, not off internet)
Handwritten texts
Songs
T7 technology
iPads, voice recorders, IWB, YouTube, QRcodes, Zondle, linguascope, Sutton High MFL Fun with Languages site (check this out!)
See Dom's last slide re links for further reading
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