Quotes by Carol Ann Tomlinson

Carol Ann Tomlinson

[Students] are exposed to many things the majority of their teachers didn’t encounter until much later in their growing up years.

Growing Up

Teacher

Years

[Students] often have a “We can figure this out – don’t just tell us” attitude. In that way, they can be less patient with “traditional” approaches to teaching.

Attitude

Teaching

Way

A gifted teacher has an unfailing eye for magical classrooms & loses sleep over anything less than the highest quality.

Sleep

Teacher

Teaching

A teacher in a differentiated classroom does not classify herself as someone who ‘already differentiates instruction.’ Rather that teacher is fully aware that every hour of teaching, every day in the classroom can reveal one more way to make the classroom a better match for its learners.

Doe

Teacher

Teaching

As a teacher, it is your job to make explicit whatever you though was implicit

Explicit

Jobs

Teacher

As educators we need to understand that there is no finish line in our work.

Educator

Lines

Needs

Creating a classroom environment that encourages students to take the risk of learning. We’ve known for a long time that when students lack a sense of safety or of belonging or of contribution, learning takes second place to meeting those needs.

Creating

Long

Safety

Differentiated Instruction is a teaching philosophy based on the premise that teachers should adapt instruction to student differences. Rather than marching students through the curriculum lockstep, teachers should modify their instruction to meet students’ varying readiness levels, learning preferences, and interests. Therefore, the teacher proactively plans a variety of ways to ‘get it’ and express learning.

Philosophy

Teacher

Teaching

Differentiation is classroom practice that looks eyeball to eyeball with the reality that kids differ, and the most effective teachers do whatever it takes to hook the whole range of kids on learning.

Kids

Reality

Teacher

I have find that today’s students are often more tolerant of human variance than students in earlier generations might have been. On the other hand, some of our students need much more interaction with a wide variety of peers so they level of understanding deepens and so they are prepared to live in a world that is only going to get smaller.

Generations

Hands

Understanding

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Art

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Attitude

Believe

Causes

Crafts

Creating

Deep Understanding

Distance

Doe

Done

Dream

Educator

Endeavor

Explicit

Generations

Growing Up

Habit

Hands

Important

Issues

Jobs

Kids

Lines

Long

Needs

People

Philosophy

Reality

Running

Safety

School

Sleep

Stress

Students

Suffering

Teacher

Teaching

Thinking

Three

Two

Understanding

Way

Years

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Quotes by Carol Ann Tomlinson

Carol Ann Tomlinson

[Students] are exposed to many things the majority of their teachers didn’t encounter until much later in their growing up years.

[Students] often have a “We can figure this out – don’t just tell us” attitude. In that way, they can be less patient with “traditional” approaches to teaching.

A gifted teacher has an unfailing eye for magical classrooms & loses sleep over anything less than the highest quality.

A teacher in a differentiated classroom does not classify herself as someone who ‘already differentiates instruction.’ Rather that teacher is fully aware that every hour of teaching, every day in the classroom can reveal one more way to make the classroom a better match for its learners.

As a teacher, it is your job to make explicit whatever you though was implicit

As educators we need to understand that there is no finish line in our work.

Creating a classroom environment that encourages students to take the risk of learning. We’ve known for a long time that when students lack a sense of safety or of belonging or of contribution, learning takes second place to meeting those needs.

Differentiation is classroom practice that looks eyeball to eyeball with the reality that kids differ, and the most effective teachers do whatever it takes to hook the whole range of kids on learning.

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