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Differentiated Instruction
Kappa Delta Pi Record, 51: 24-30, 2015
Copyright Kappa Delta Pi
ISSN: 0022-8958 print/2163-1611 online
DOI 10.1080/00228958.2015.988561
by Greg Conderman
and Laura R. Hedin
Abstract
As a flexible instructional tool, cue cards offer support for students with and without disabilities. By
providing different amounts of support, they also
can be used to differentiate instruction in a variety
of subject areas and grade levels. This article
describes various strategies for using cue cards and
includes examples from K12 classrooms.
Key words: differentiated instruction, inclusive
education, special ed/non-GT
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Greg Conderman is
a Professor of Special
Education at Northern
Illinois University. His
research interests include co-teaching, strategy instruction, and
methods for students
with disabilities. He is
a former special education teacher and educational consultant. Email:
GConderman@niu.edu
Laura R. Hedin is an
Associate Professor of
Special Education at
Northern Illinois University. Her research interests include co-teaching,
literacy methods, and
science instruction. She
is a former elementary
teacher. Email: LHedin@
niu.edu
Differentiated Instruction
Advantages for Students
Cue cards offer several key advantages for students. First, cue cards accommodate individual
students areas of concern. For example, some
students have long- or short-term memory issues
that impact their ability to complete assignments,
perform well on tests, or contribute meaningfully
to class discussion (Smith, Polloway, Patton, &
Dowdy, 2006). Cue cards provide memory supports that promote student independence in these
tasks by listing daily assignments, test-taking
strategies, or ways to appropriately participate
in class. Similarly, students who do not have
their multiplication facts memorized could use
individualized math fact cards that include only
facts they still need to learn; and students who do
not have all letter sounds mastered could benefit
from a cue card with the letter and an associated
picture cue (e.g., the letter m and a picture of
a mountain). In these examples, the cue card
serves as an accommodation for the memory
issue and allows the student to complete work
independently.
Second, cue cards help students access the
general education curriculum, as required by the
Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (2004) and the No Child Left Behind
Act of 2001 (2003). Students with disabilities are
increasingly receiving a greater proportion of their
instruction in general education settings where
they are expected to meet rigorous academic and
behavioral expectations (U.S. Department of Education, 2009). Cue cards can help these students
organize and structure complex information. For
example, if noted as an accommodation on a students Individualized Education Program (IEP) or
Section 504 Plan, a student who confuses parts of
a plant cell could refer to a labeled diagram while
writing a science lab report or even when taking a
science quiz. Similarly, a student who confuses the
sequence of historical events could benefit from a
cue card in the form of a timeline. Used in these
ways, cue cards not only can make assignments or
assessments easier, but also allow students to apply higher-level thinking skills while responding
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Instructional Steps
Cue cards are not appropriate for every student
or every situation. For example, cue cards would
be inappropriate if the goal is for students to
explore or generate various approaches to solving math problems or design an original piece
of art, music, or creative writing using discovery
or self-expression. Their use is appropriate when
students are learning a multistep process or procedure they must complete in a specific order or
when students confuse or forget steps (Reid &
Lienemann, 2006).
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Steps-Only Cards
The steps-only cue card provides only
the steps of a process or procedure and thus
is useful to students who understand the process but forget the steps or their order. When
studying mitosis in science, for example, the
steps-only card could display (depending on
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Symbol
Meaning
Whole note
Whole rest
Multiplying Fractions
Example
1/2 2/4
12=2
24=8
2/8 = 1/4
Did I . . .
Behavior Expectations
Arrive to class on time by being in my seat quietly when the bell rang?
Yes or No
Yes or No
Yes or No
Yes or No
Yes or No
Ask yourself
C (Capitalization)
Did I capitalize the first word of every sentence and all proper nouns?
O (Overall
Appearance)
P (Punctuation)
S (Spelling)
Self-Monitoring Behavior
Behavior
Looks like
Raising your hand with arm fully extended in the air (without waving it)
and waiting quietly for the teacher
to call on you
Complying with
teacher request
Check () when
completed
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increasingly diverse, requiring teachers to use a
variety of instructional methods to differentiate
instruction. As a flexible instructional tool, cue
cards offer various levels of support to students
in diverse classrooms by listing steps to a process or procedure, providing visuals to depict
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