July 21, 2014
Here is an interesting visual on the concept of differentiation in education which I came across on a tweet by Karen Friedman. This visual is created by ASCD and outlines some key differences between what differentiation is and what it is not. Have a look and share with us what you think of it.
Differentiation is :
- An idea as old as effective teaching
- Lessons designed around patterns of student need
- Use of whole-group, small-group and individual tasks based on content and student needs
- Necessary for success with standards for a board range of learners
- Valuing and planning for diversity in heterogenous settings
- Purposeful of flexible grouping
- A student-focused way of thinking about teaching and learning
- Teaching up
- At the core of quality teaching
- Designed to address learning and affective needs that all students have
- Tracking grouping students into class by ability
- Incompatible with standards
- Bluebirds, buzzards and wombats ( ability grouping within a classroom)\Dumbing down teaching for some students
- Something extra on top of good teaching
- A set of instructional strategies
- Mostly for students identified as gifted
- Mostly for students with identified learning challenges
- IEPs for all
- Individualized instruction
- A synonym for group work
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