1e. Designing coherent instruction
Differentiation can be defined "as a way of teaching in which teachers proactively modify curriculum, teaching methods, resources, learning activities, and student products to address the needs of individual students and/or small groups of students to maximize the learning opportunity for each student in the classroom."
-Facilitator's Guide for At Work in the Differentiated Classroom, 103.
There are three key reasons for differentiating the learning experience:
-Facilitator's Guide for At Work in the Differentiated Classroom, 103.
There are three key reasons for differentiating the learning experience:
- Access to Learning - Students cannot learn that which is inaccessible because they do not understand.
- Motivation to Learn - Students cannot learn when they are unmotivated by things far too difficult or things far too easy. Students learn more enthusiastically when they are motivated by those things that connect to their interests.
- Efficiency to Learning - Students learn more efficiently when they have a suitable background of experience. Students learn more efficiently when they can acquire information and express understanding through a preferred mode.
When presenting the unit essential question, I try to challenge students how each of us are influenced by the resources available to us and how this effects what we create.
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Elements of component 1e are:
Indicators include:
Component 1e: Artifact List
- Learning activities: instruction designed to engage students and advance them through the content
- Instructional materials and resources: appropriate to the learning needs of the students
- Instructional groups: intentionally organized to support student learning
- Lesson and unit structure: clear and sequenced to advance students' learning
Indicators include:
- Lessons that support instructional outcomes and reflect important concepts
- Instructional maps that indicate relationships to prior learning
- Activities that represent high-level thinking
- Opportunities for student choice
- The use of varied resources
- Thoughtfully planned learning groups
- Structured lesson plan
Component 1e: Artifact List
- Lesson plans or unit plans
- Instruction Plan for Single Lesson