Every student, no matter what their age, abilities, or interests, has areas of strength.
Start the year in a positive way by celebrating those areas! Susie might be a great speller and Marc an excellent artist--Celebrate that! The easiest way to begin to differentiate and offer choice in your classroom is to provide choice menus based on Multiple Intelligences. I have used this original lesson with 4th-8th graders in regular and gifted classes, and with teachers in professional development c