Classroom Quote by Carol Ann Tomlinson

Differentiation is simply a teacher attending to the learning needs of a particular student or small groups of students, rather than teaching a class…

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

Differentiated Instruction is a teaching philosophy based on the premise that teachers should adapt instruction to student differences. Rather than marching students through the…

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

A teacher in a differentiated classroom does not classify herself as someone who ‘already differentiates instruction.’ Rather that teacher is fully aware that every…

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

We aren't quite sure what we're trying to differentiate, and therefore can't quite see how to do it other than giving some students more…

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

In differentiated classrooms, teachers begin where students are, not the front of a curriculum guide.

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

“And yet in too many cases, this is what business has been reduced to: the artful packaging of meaningless distinctions as true differentiation.”

— Youngme Moon

What sometimes enrages me and always disappoints and grieves me is the preference of great schools of learning for the derivative as opposed to…

— Norbert Wiener

To teach means scarcely anything more than to show how things differ from one another in their different purposes, forms, and origins. ... Therefore,…

— John Amos

It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.

— Michael Morpurgo

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

— James S. Coleman

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It's experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

— Robert Greene

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

— Wallace Stegner