At its most basic level, differentiation consists of the efforts of teachers to respond to variance among learners in the classroom. Whenever a teacher reaches out to an individual or small group to vary his or her teaching in order to create the best learning experience possible, that teacher is differentiating instruction.
Teachers can differentiate at least four classroom elements based on student readiness, interest, or learning profile:
Teachers can differentiate at least four classroom elements based on student readiness, interest, or learning profile:
- Content – what the student needs to learn or how the student will get access to the information;
- Process – activities in which the student engages in order to make sense of or master the content;
- Products – culminating projects that ask the student to rehearse, apply, and extend what he or she has learned in a unit; and
- Learning environment – the way the classroom works and feels.
With the removal of Maths Groups, West Pennant Hills undertook a range of professional development activities and courses to ensure all teachers were supported and able to confidently cater to the ever increasing spread of needs within their diverse classrooms. In order to ensure we were on the right track and students were receiving a differentiated, engaging curriculum, we decided to make it out 'IR' focus so that we could use the external expertise of it's participants to monitor and evaluate our progress.
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what works in the classroom
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Planning for Differentiation
A professional learning module: Click here to download 5 Principals of the Modern Mathematics Classroom: Summary from The Main Idea. Click here to download
Understanding Differentiation in Order to Lead: Chapter 1 from the differentiation guru, Tomlinson. Click here to download
10 Big Maths Ideas: Click here to download
How Students Learn V3
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Teacher REsources
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