@article{2017,title={DEVELOPING CURRICULUM DIFFERENTIATION BASED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PACKAGE AND EXAMINING TEACHERS’ UNDERSTANDING ABOUT ROLE OF TEACHER},abstractNode={The purpose of the study is to develop a professional development package based on curriculum differentiation and to examine teachers’ new understandings about the role of teacher who performs the differentiated instruction as a result of the implementation of the package. The sample of the study was 15 private school teachers of different branches. The package was composed of 7 sections. The administration of the package lasted 12 weeks in 6-hour sections. As a source of qualitative data, semi-structured interview and written documents were used. The findings indicated that with the participation of the teachers, traditional understanding of teacher’s role as information transmitter who feels obliged to complete the curriculum showed a change to an understanding of the role of teacher who takes individual differences of the students into consideration and believes in the necessity of planning differentiated instruction. It was seen that the participants of the study developed promising understandings that can help to fulfill the teachers’ roles, which are appropriate for the qualities of differentiated instruction environment.},author={Melek Nur ERDOĞAN},year={2017},journal={The Journal of International Educational Sciences}}