• Welcome and thank you to the Mathematics Institute Committee which includes members from Alberta Education and consortia for their work in planning this day.
• Brief Address from Alberta Education.

Chapter 1

Examination of curriculum specific student work

• How different are the responses anyway?
• How different do we want them to be?

Discussion of what DI is

• What does it mean and what is it not?
• How do you have to behave as a teacher to differentiate instruction?
• Is teaching through problem solving/exploration automatically DI?

• Comparing a few standard curriculum specific tasks to curriculum specific tasks where DI is considered.

• Video of a 10C Classroom where an open question has been asked.

• Models of what open questions and how they support DI will be provided.
• Models will be curriculum specific with samples at all levels. Samples will come from 10 C, 10-3, 20-1, 20-2, and 20-3