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Chapter 7: Preparing Students and Parents for a Differentiated Classroom

Chapter 7: Preparing Students and Parents for a Differentiated Classroom. Shira LeVine ED 602 Target audience: parents of high-school students. What is Differentiated Instruction?.

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Chapter 7: Preparing Students and Parents for a Differentiated Classroom

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  1. Chapter 7: Preparing Students and Parents for a Differentiated Classroom Shira LeVine ED 602 Target audience: parents of high-school students

  2. What is Differentiated Instruction? • Differentiated Instruction, or DI, is a means by which teachers can address the unique needs and talents of all students in the classroom. • DI recognizes that each student develops at a different pace and that learning needs to address each student’s abilities. • DI enables students to feel safe in their learning environment. • Students know they are valuable, important contributors to the classroom environment. • DI classroom embrace the diversity of talents, skills and knowledge, spurring each student to reach his or her goals and develop his or her abilities.

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  4. Goals of DI • Everyone grows in all areas • Lessons are tailored to students’ needs and skills • Teacher objectives for students are individualized and evolutionary, changing as the year progresses and the students expand their knowledge and talents • Parental involvement and communication between parents and teacher • Each student becomes an independent learner

  5. For Advanced Learners • DI allows students to invest in their talents and abilities • Struggle is part and parcel of the learning process • Hard work breeds success • Risks are acceptable and valid • Mistakes and failure are excellent learning tools • “So, why is my child’s work harder than his/her friend’s work?” • Each student should stretch slightly beyond his/her comfort level • The work is adjusted to challenge each child at his/her level of comfort, skills, knowledge and abilities

  6. Successful Students • DI does encourage moving beyond one’s comfort zone and current abilities • Struggle is good—it leads to greater development! • However, pushing students too hard is not an objective of the system and is in fact counterproductive • The goal of learning is true understanding and self-confidence in academic enterprises • Not self-doubt, undue frustration or confusion

  7. Communication • DI relies on teacher-parent communication and interaction • The more we connect with you, the more the overall picture of your child emerges • And the more we can tailor our teaching to meet your child’s needs • Together, we can help him or her find his/her wings and soar

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