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When a child enters your classroom / school at the start of the school year...

When a child enters your classroom / school at the start of the school year. What do you. observe, learn, and wonder? . What do they. share and hold back?. DI Fact Sheet. DI Definition. STUDENTS DIFFER IN: How they learn best What interests them Readiness for the content.

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When a child enters your classroom / school at the start of the school year...

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  1. When a child enters your classroom / school at the start of the school year... What do you observe, learn, and wonder? What do they share and hold back?

  2. DI Fact Sheet

  3. DI Definition

  4. STUDENTS DIFFER IN: How they learn best What interests them Readiness for the content Let’s take a closer look

  5. LearningProfile What’s the point of PAYING ATTENTION TO THESE STUDENT DIFFERENCES? Interest Readiness MORE EFFICIENT LEARNING ATTRACT ATTENTION GROWTH AND ACHIEVEMENT

  6. Understanding your students will enable more effective differentiation.

  7. What can be assessed?

  8. Social/Emotional Factors: Language Culture Health Family Circumstances Special Circumstances Learning Profile

  9. We tend to teach according to how we learn best. A teacher who is a strong auditory learner will prefer this modality when teaching—she might lecture more. Most people do not use sight, hearing, and touch equally during learning. People develop preferences for certain senses as they learn. Every lesson should be designed to include all three learning modalities: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. Think VAK for every lesson. If a child is not understanding your lesson, you should reteach the concept to that child in his/her preferred learning style. Facts About Learning Styles

  10. In a differentiated classroom . . . The More Ways You Teach, The More Students You Reach! V A K

  11. Multiple Intelligences Verbal-Linguistic Logical-Mathematical Visual-Spatial Musical Bodily-Kinesthetic Interpersonal Intrapersonal Naturalist

  12. LearningProfile What’s the point of PAYING ATTENTION TO THESE STUDENT DIFFERENCES? Interest Readiness ATTRACT ATTENTION MORE EFFICIENT LEARNING GROWTH AND ACHIEVEMENT

  13. What can be assessed?

  14. LearningProfile What’s the point of PAYING ATTENTION TO THESE STUDENT DIFFERENCES? Interest Readiness MORE EFFICIENT LEARNING ATTRACT ATTENTION GROWTH AND ACHIEVEMENT

  15. What can be assessed?

  16. Differentiated instruction is not something new. Think of the one-room schoolhouse. Teachers faced the challenge of finding different pathways to help a wide range of learners be successful.

  17. What are some of the ways we are already differentiating instruction?

  18. Important to note… Using a strategy off this list or any other does not make a differentiated classroom, rather is it how it is used and with whom.

  19. DI Fact Sheet

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