TEACHERS' CASEBOOK: Reaching and Teaching Every Student You have started a new job in a high school in your hometown. When you were in school, the students were fairly homogeneous-White, working to middle class, and English speaking. But things have changed radically-many different ethnicities, languages, and income levels are represented row. In the classes you are teaching, you find a wide range of reading levels, family incomes, and learning problems. Two of your students are virtually ready for college, but several others can barely read the texts, and their writing is impossible to decipher. Reading English texts is a challenge for some of your students who are English language learners, although they seem to speak English with little trouble.

CRITICAL THINKING

How would you differentiate instruction for these very dissimilar students?

Do different philosophies of teaching provide different answers to this question?

How will you grade work if you have successfully differentiated instruction?