DIFFERENTIATING INSTRUCTION
Nov 19, 2014
DIFFERENTIATING INSTRUCTION
AGENDA
Goals for the Day Differentiated Instruction in our
classrooms Break Core Practices & Differentiated
Instruction Video Activity: Slide 25 (Mr. Bean) A personal experience Lunch Departmental Activity
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GOALS FOR THE DAY
1. Learn about DI resources, supports and strategies
2. Evaluate our own practice of applying differentiated instruction within our classrooms
3. Develop an activity applying the principles of differentiated instruction
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DIFFERENTIATING INSTRUCTION ...is effective instruction that is
responsive to learning preferences, interests and readiness of the individual learner.”
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DI CLASSROOM PRACTICES
Fill out the following table about your own DI classroom practices
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DI CLASSROOM PRACTICES
Share your own practices with your table (department)
Nominate 1 person to share your tables discussion
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Now a few words from John
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“A LEARNING STYLE is the way each learner begins to concentrate on, process, and retain new and difficult information.”
(Rita Dunn Ph. D.)
LEARNING STYLES10
Visual/Spatial: Learning through seeing.
Verbal/Linguistic: Learning through hearing
Body/Kinesthetic: Learning through movement, action, and hands on activities
Logical/Mathematical: learning through numbers
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Musical/Rhythmic: Learning through music
Interpersonal: Learning through others’ emotions
Intrapersonal: Learning through one’s inner emotions
Naturalist: learning through a connection with the environment
LEARNING STYLES Fill out the
questionnaire for yourself.
At your tables, discuss the following question
QUESTION: is your instructional practice influenced by your own learning style?
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LEARNING STYLESYES: what can you do to cater your lessons to a variety of learning styles?
NO: what are you doing to accommodate a variety of learning styles?
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COFFEE BREAK(15 minutes)
Take 15 for a kit-kat coffee break
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ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING15
ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING
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“The primary purpose of assessment and
evaluation is to improve learning.”
“Program Planning and Assessment, 2000” p. 13
ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING
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CORE PRACTICES
Learning Goals and Success Criteria
Questioning
Feedback
Self-Assessment
LEARNING GOALS & SUCCESS CRITERIA18
LEARNING GOALS
Brief statements that describe, for students, what they should know and be able to do by the end of a period of instruction.
SUCCESS CRITERIA
Descriptive statements, in specific terms, of what successful attainment of the learning goals looks like
CORE PRACTICE: QUESTIONING
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Gathers evidence about students’ current level of knowledge and skills, as well as their attitudes, interests and learning preferences
Guides students’ thinking on a topic, and focus their efforts to achieve learning goals
Provides information to differentiate instruction
Makes students’ thinking visible so teachers can detect confusions and misconceptions
TIPS TO IMPROVE QUESTIONING
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Find alternatives to asking questions of whole class
Try not to always be the quarterback Conduct frequent checks for understanding Talk to students while they are working Regular one on one conferences
CORE PRACTICE: FEEDBACK
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“…if assessments are to support improvements in student learning, their results must inform students how to do better the next time.
Rick Stiggins
CORE PRACTICE: FEEDBACK
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Describes student performance
Purpose is to reduce the gap between the student’s current level of understanding and/or performance and a desired goal
Has powerful effects on student engagement and learning
CORE PRACTICE: SELF ASSESSMENT23
Provides meaningful feedback to teachers about students’ learning needs
Equips student with the skills to answer Where am I going? Where am I now? How do I close the gap? Where to next?
CORE PRACTICES: VIDEO24
Watch the video, keep the following question in mind.
QUESTION: which of the four core practices would have saved Mr. Bean from his precarious situation?
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A PERSONAL EXEPERIENCE
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A personal experience from Laura Owen
DEPARTMENTAL ACTIVITY27
INSTRUCTIONS28
Using Assessment for Learning, each department is to choose an assignment(s) and evaluate it(them) according to page given;
The department is to consider how to alter assignment if this is necessary so it is in accordance with Assessment for Learning
INSTRUCTIONS
DEPARTMENT HEADS, please do not forget
your D.I. KITS
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