Tuesday, February 18, 2014
What I learned today... Differentiation in Learning
At the beginning of the semester Dr. Peterson taught our class about the importance of differentiation. Today in class we discussed more of the importance in doing so. What is differentiation in learning you might ask? I feel differentiation in learning is teaching to the needs of the students. In the last couple of posts, I have shared my feeling on the hallmarks and incorporating them in instruction, as I learned in class today, the hallmarks are important but differentiating your instruction is vital to meet your students' needs. Here are some things you as a teacher can differentiate: content, environment, process, or the product according to the students' interest or readiness. I personally haven't been able to incorporate this into my teaching because I haven't been in the schools much but I know this semester is going to be different as I work in the class for my field work. I feel as I seek to differentiate now as a student, I will be a better teacher because I will know what it means to differentiate.
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Thanks for sharing these thoughts... you're making connections, and I've probably messed up your confidence about what you're learning... but let me help build it back up again. This post let me see how you're looking at things... and it "looks to me" like you're getting there! 5 pts.
ReplyDeleteDifferentiating in all of these areas- content, environment, process, product or according to the students' interest or readiness is so vital to a students learning. I feel that if we really want to help every student receive a full years growth in a year then we need to be constantly evaluating each of these and implement all we can every chance we get.
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