As a gifted educator you look for new ideas or strategies to make sure your students succeed by reaching state goals or individual goals. Sometimes it because difficult to teach new concepts to certain students without slowing down the learning process for others. Over the course of the week I will be reviewing a type of instruction that helps all students succeed. It is called Differentiated Instruction. This is not a new concept or an idea of mine. It has been around a long time but many teachers misinterpret the meaning.