EDUC 4380U Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Differentiated Instruction, Fidgeting, Cover Letter
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Differentiated instruction: catering to every student, different assignments, variety, diverse, different learning styles, multiple intelligences, modifications/accommodations for different learning disabilities, skills. Giving students expectations from a different grade level. Keep expectations at grade level but take off some of the expectations (or add more if it"s gifted) Expert peer groups - jigsaw choices: learning style. Individual help: content choices, process laptops, products. A variety of groupings to meet student needs. Challenges students at an appropriate level: what it is not. Doing something different for each child in the class. Never engaging in whole class activities with all students participating in the same endeavour: based on readiness. Teacher need to know where a student is on the continuum: based on student interest. Variation of themes that the child likes: based on student learning profile. Many teachers do a mi test with their kids at the beginning of the year to see what kind of learners they are: based on the process.
