Differentiating Instruction
5 Modules
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5.0
Differentiating instruction can feel daunting—but it doesn’t have to be. This self-paced course is designed to simplify the process by guiding you one small step at a time. Whether you’re a new teacher eager to understand your students better or a seasoned educator looking to fine-tune your strategies.
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Practical Strategies to Meet Every Learner’s Needs
This course will help you implement meaningful, manageable differentiation that improves learning outcomes and strengthens teacher-student relationships. Through five concise modules, you’ll learn how to assess student needs, adapt your instruction accordingly, and create a classroom where all students can thrive.
Module 1
Know Your Students to Teach Them Better
- Increase use of effective strategies such as student surveys to enable a teacher to know their children in depth.
- Increase the effective use of both formal and informal pre-assessments to determine student’s pre-requisite skills prior to each new learning activity.
Module 2
Deliver Clear, Explicit Instruction
- Use the GRR model of instruction in all content areas
- Guide children by use of the “lead” or guided practice step on the part of teachers.
- Increase use of immediate and specific correction procedures.
- Increase use of meaningful repetitions/practice for students in need of more teaching.
- Increase use of explicit instructional techniques: verification, think time, pause/punch, etc.
- How to effectively use teaching/non-teaching examples when teaching something new or when correcting to eliminate ambiguity
- Increase knowledge and application of concise use of language of instruction.
- Increase use of transposing vocabulary definitions
- Increase use of Anchor Charts as a visual representation of rules, routines, steps in a procedure for those students in need of added structure.
Module 3
Differentiate With Less Planning, More Impact
- Increase use of low planning strategies for differentiation as trained” small groups, varied assignments/lessons, more student choice, etc.
- Increase use of KWL charts
- Increase use of a variety of exit tickets as formative assessment
Module 4
Personalize Learning with Purpose
- Increase use of learning contracts for individual students to motivate them.
- Effectively use tiered assignments based on an individual’s mastery of prerequisite skills.
- Implement choice boards and learning centers.
- Use routines and procedures so children can work independently when using the learning centers.
- Scaffold questions according to student academic needs and on 4 types of questions.
- Conduct in-depth planning to meet the individual needs of students.
Module 5
Plan and Implement with Confidence
- Increase use of lesson plan template which includes differentiation activities
- Increase ability to make minor or major adjustments to a lesson based on students’ responses.
- Create and firmly put in place a clear action plan for effective differentiation.