Nanci Smith
ADDRESSING THE NEEDS OF YOUR STUDENTS: DIFFERENTIATING INSTRUCTION

At its most basic level, Differentiating Instruction means “shaking \up” what goes on in the classroom so that students have multiple options for taking in information, making sense of ideas, and expressing what they learn.  In other words, a Differentiated Classroom provides different avenues to acquiring content, processing or making sense of ideas, and developing products.

Biography
Nanci Smith is currently a full-time consultant in the areas of differentiated instruction as well as mathematics.  She will complete her Ph.D. in mathematics education this fall.  Nanci has taught math at the high school level, as well as at Arizona State University.  She is Nationally Board Certified in Adolescent and Young Adult Mathematics.   Nanci has been a national and international consultant in Differentiated Instruction for ASCD for six years.  She has taught Differentiated Instruction as a Masters course for Arizona State and Northern Arizona Universities and for teachers at the Singapore American International School through Buffalo State University.  She has developed a CD/DVD-based, professional development series for middle school math teachers.  Nanci’s classroom has been featured in ASCD’s video series on Differentiation, and she has a chapter in the ASCD book, Differentiation in Practice, grades 5 – 9.