Assessment
Answer the following using PENZU or your personal Journal.
- Think about your earlier response to the scenarios presented to you. Is there additional advice you could give to a teacher in need? What is this new information?
- What are 3 things you will change in your own practice as a result of what you have learned from this module?
In your personal Journal or using PENZU revisit the sort you completed earlier. Make changes as needed based on what you've learned.
Check your answers here.
Check your answers here.
LIST OF CHARACTERISTICS:
•Connecting and building relationships with students.
• Giving students easier or harder assignments based on their perceived ability level.
• Reacting to student needs only when problems arise.
• Teaching “to” the students and having the teacher dominate classroom experiences
• Providing multi-option assignments
• Allowing for multiple perspectives of ideas and events.
• Respecting the “whole” child.
• Teaching “one” way for all students.
• Arranging desks in rows with year-long class instruction.
• Using a fixed set of instructional resources.
• Working in flexible groups.
• Building a community within your classroom.
• Using time, space, instructional strategies and materials flexibly.
• Including students in evaluation and assessment process. .
• Planning for quantity over quality.
• Focusing on mastery of facts.
• Assessing at the end of a unit with traditional selected response form only.
• Using a single definition of excellence from which student success is measured.
• Providing single-option assignments.
• Planning exclusive of student input.
• Setting learning goals as a result of student-teacher collaboration.
• Creating meaningful, rigorous curriculum for all students.
• Using on-going assessment to drive instruction.
• Using student differences as a basis for planning.
• Being proactive.
• Providing access to curriculum for all students.
• Responding to student needs.
•Connecting and building relationships with students.
• Giving students easier or harder assignments based on their perceived ability level.
• Reacting to student needs only when problems arise.
• Teaching “to” the students and having the teacher dominate classroom experiences
• Providing multi-option assignments
• Allowing for multiple perspectives of ideas and events.
• Respecting the “whole” child.
• Teaching “one” way for all students.
• Arranging desks in rows with year-long class instruction.
• Using a fixed set of instructional resources.
• Working in flexible groups.
• Building a community within your classroom.
• Using time, space, instructional strategies and materials flexibly.
• Including students in evaluation and assessment process. .
• Planning for quantity over quality.
• Focusing on mastery of facts.
• Assessing at the end of a unit with traditional selected response form only.
• Using a single definition of excellence from which student success is measured.
• Providing single-option assignments.
• Planning exclusive of student input.
• Setting learning goals as a result of student-teacher collaboration.
• Creating meaningful, rigorous curriculum for all students.
• Using on-going assessment to drive instruction.
• Using student differences as a basis for planning.
• Being proactive.
• Providing access to curriculum for all students.
• Responding to student needs.
SORT CATEGORIES:
Differentiation is... Differentiation is not...
Differentiation is... Differentiation is not...
Thank you for your participation!
Suggestions for Next Steps
To further extend your learning of Differentiated Instruction we challenge you to locate a lesson that is already created. Examine the lesson and alter it so that it includes Differentiated Instructional Strategies and meets various needs of learners. Share your new lesson with a colleague. Use the resources located in this module, your self-reflection, and information you've learned about Content, Process, Product, and Learning Environment to edit the lesson plan.
Suggestions for Next Steps
To further extend your learning of Differentiated Instruction we challenge you to locate a lesson that is already created. Examine the lesson and alter it so that it includes Differentiated Instructional Strategies and meets various needs of learners. Share your new lesson with a colleague. Use the resources located in this module, your self-reflection, and information you've learned about Content, Process, Product, and Learning Environment to edit the lesson plan.
References
Penzu. (2016). Retrieved June 23, 2016, from https://penzu.com/
Penzu. (2016). Retrieved June 23, 2016, from https://penzu.com/