How do I implement differentiated learning strategies into my high school math classes?

Question

How do I implement differentiated learning strategies into my high school math classes?

Answer 1

Identify your strategy and target, notify your students, segregate them into groups based on a test and ability and proceed giving them work accordingly!

Answer 2

You should have professional ed/continuing ed classes about that; I really don't think you can possibly be expected to do it yourself right away without some help/suggestions.  Ask your superintendent

Answer 3

First identify the concept that you want to teach for that lesson- it should just be one concept... Then think of three different ways to teach it.

Say for example you were multiplying fractions and now you want to divide them. You could first create a multiple choice group work project where students have to figure out- with out you telling them, what the right answer is through group discussion and elimination.... like one answer could be if you added the fractions, another for subtraction, so on.

The second activity could be you then doing the traditional "I do, we do" where you do a problem on the board and then have them do it with you.

A third way could then be to as a bonus active of trying to solve problems with pictures and words rather than numbers and have everything still centered on the activity at hand.

The big thing is that you probably have between 50 minutes to quite possibly 90 minutes to fill, and you don't want to teach more than one thing at a time but you need to keep the class moving. There are always multiple ways to teach every concept, just start thinking of those ways and a full differentiated lesson will grow from that.