Armed with all these strategies, activities, performance tasks, and rubrics, you are now on the way to ensuring your students will make learning gains. Observing a classroom of students engaging in learning, taking responsibility for their learning, and generating quality products to demonstrate mastery of their learning definitely justifies differentiated instruction.
The purpose of education is to learn new information and be able to apply it, synthesize it, and evaluate it. Differentiated instruction is the key.
What is the value of using authentic assessment in your classroom? Explain how you would justify it to any critics (parents, administrators, peers)? Post a follow-up response to another participant's original thread.