Differentiating Instruction for Students

In Week 9 of AEE 412, we are learning about other resources and techniques to grow our teacher toolbox. Throughout the semester, we have learned about objectives, assessments, lesson plans, and tons of other resources. This week, we will focus on differentiating instruction. With this additional resource and framework to focus on, we can work to engage all of our students to the best of our ability.

Our key questions for this week are:

Why is differentiated learning important?

How could we utilize individualized teaching techniques?

Keeping these questions in mind, we will utilize the 3-2-1 Blog Success Model for this week's readings.

3- Identify 3 relevant connections to your student teaching internships

• The use of experiments can help students be success-oriented and student centered

• Learners have unique learning styles and learning needs

• We can promote independence in learning for learner confidence

2- Identify 2 connections to other courses that are part of your #TeachAg Journey

• The readings made sure to remind about the importance of the interest approach and objectives, like we learned in 412 in earlier weeks!

• The three characteristics of the learner- readiness, interest, and preferences are all from prior classes

1 – Identify the Triangulated Connection (w/ citation!)

• For my triangulated connection, I found a video on differentiated instruction from Alberta. This video explains the importance of differentiated instruction in the context of different learners. We must first know how our learners learn, as well as give different opportunities to learn. Assessment informs instructional planning to feed into differentiated instruction. From the video, we learn the importance of flexible groupings. This means students are regularly switched in groups from: classroom instruction, small group instruction, one to one instruction, peer teaching pairs, partner learning, independent learning activities, and cooperative small group learning.

• English language learners, special education students, gifted students, and at-risk students benefit greatly from differentiated instruction

• A differentiated approach builds on evidence-based practices in an intentional and systematic manner

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