Why Differentiation?
- When learning tasks are consistently too hard, students become anxious and frustrated.
- When tasks are consistently too easy, boredom results. Both boredom and anxiety inhibit a student’s motivation to learn, and – eventually—harm achievement as well. Differentiated instruction helps teachers avoid student anxiety and boredom that can be evident in one-size-fits-all curriculum.
Differentiation Involves...
- Having high expectations for all students.
- Adjustment of the core content.
- Assigning activities geared to different learning styles, interests, and levels of thinking.
- Providing students with choices about what and how they learn.
- Flexible because teachers move students in and out of groups based upon students’ instructional needs.
- Acknowledgment of individual needs
- Articulated, high level goals reflecting continuous progress.
- Assessment to determine student growth and new needs.
- Adjustment of curriculum by complexity, breadth, and rate.
- Educational experiences which extend, replace, or supplement standard curriculum.
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