differentiated teaching

[susannole2000]

I am a fourth grade teacher in Florida. Next year, I would like to develop a differentiated curriculum in my classroom for my students based on Standards and Benchmarks. Has anyone implemented this in their own classroom? I attended a workshop from SDE and really want to do this for my students next year.
Please email with any suggestions. :D

[Unregistered]

I am a new teacher--3rd grade--at a highly diverse elementary. Our curriculum has supplemental teacher texts (and corresponding student texts) for diversifying instruction. I use a lot of small groups and technology to maintain a DE classroom. However, I had to hunt down all the guides in my first few weeks of school and other teachers looked at me like I was crazy. I also have to make copies of BLACKLINE Masters or create my own. Then, I carefully, orchestrate each small group in order to pre-teach or reteach a particular lesson (i.e., English language learners, students who can't decode, students who can decode but are fluent, student who are fluent but don't comprehend, students who are visual v. tactile, etc.). I'm working on reading and language arts block right now (one subject a year) and next year, I'll do the same for math. One of my professors in my Master's program (which I have graduated from) told me to implement changes into one subject at a time (even if all subjects are integrated) It really is a lot of work and takes careful planning and after-the-lesson evaluation, but my last week hosted good results and students like to feel successful (particulary when they haven't been successful in anything since kindergarten). Good luck.