Carol Ann Tomlinson Quotes

#1. Differentiation is simply a teacher attending to the learning needs of a particular student or small groups of students, rather than teaching a class as though all individuals in it were basically alike.

Carol Ann Tomlinson

#2. Assessment is today's means of modifying tomorrow's instruction.

Carol Ann Tomlinson

#3. Teachers craft classrooms that are good matches for their teaching styles as well as for learner needs.

Carol Ann Tomlinson

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

Carol Ann Tomlinson

#5. Interest refers to student's affinity, curiosity, or passion for a particular topic or skill.

Carol Ann Tomlinson

#6. The central job of schools is to maximize the capacity of each students.

Carol Ann Tomlinson

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

Carol Ann Tomlinson

#8. 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.

Carol Ann Tomlinson

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

Carol Ann Tomlinson

#10. Readiness is a student's entry point relative to a particular understanding or skill.

Carol Ann Tomlinson

#11. When challenge and skills are in balance the activity is its own reward

Carol Ann Tomlinson

#12. Plan to be better today, but don't ever plan to be finished

Carol Ann Tomlinson

#13. It is not so important to have all the answers as to be hungry for them.

Carol Ann Tomlinson