Differentiated+Instruction

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Tailer to the needs of all students. Differentiate your instruction depending on the needs in your class Examples include: -Gate: not just additional work but more challenging/higher level thinking work -ELL: identify English proficiency level -IEP/504: consult IEP/504 before instruction to know what modifications are necessary -At-Risk: consult prior assignment to see what instruction is needed

N OT ALL LEARNERS ARE ALIKE. The model of differentiated instruction requires teachers to be flexible in their approach to teaching and to adjust the curriculum and presentation of information to learners rather than expecting students to adapt themselves to the curriculum. In a differentiated classroom, teachers begin where their students are, not where they feel she should be or as the curriculum dictates. Instructional methodologies vary and are adapted to meet the needs of individual and diverse learners.

"The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all children as if they were variants of the same individual, and thus to feel justified in teaching them the same subjects in the same ways." Howard Gardner, 1994 []

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