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Natalie,
I will try and answer all of your questions that you asked for your
research
Before I answer your questions, let me tell you what I think differentiated
instruction is to me as a teacher. I firmly believe that differentiated
learning for me as a teacher is to provide different learning strategies for
my students. Throughout my career as a teacher, new terminology and
teaching strategies have become popular. I have been under the
assumption that differentiated instruction was all about pairing the
highest achieving students with the lowest achieving students so that the
high achievers can help improve the low achieving students in class. I
will agree that the best way to learn a new concept is to teach it to
someone else, but in all truth, (when I used this) the low achieving
students didn't take it seriously, and the higher achieving students (even
if it was taken seriously) felt like babysitters after a short time. For me,
differentiated instruction is a fancy way of saying I provide different
learning strategies for students other than lecturing. In our AP class, I
used lecture for visual and auditory learners, I used the team white
boards for social, kinesthetic, verbal learners. The *this projects name
has been omitted for anonymity purposes* was a combination of all of
those, plus expression. As a teacher, I am most concerned with student
learning, involvement, and fun (if that's possible). I am more concerned
with how would I like to learn in this class. I believe that some lecturing
and teacher instruction is necessary, but at least half of the class (if not
more) needs to be student driven activities that engage interest. The
problems we did on our AP class were not differentiated based upon
learning abilities, but it was designed to give all of you different teaching
strategies to engage you.
How did I learn about differentiated instruction in college and how was it
presented?
Teacher B
Teachers various levels of a social studies class
interesting that when I was being taught all of this in college, it was
100% lecture (which is what all of my college classes were). Ultimately, I
felt like, after learning all of this in college, it was up to me to experiment
and find out what best worked for me. Because all teachers make the
same salary, and there are really no incentives (extra pay) for teachers
to do anything special in class, most teachers don't really go above and
beyond to test out these different strategies. For me, I have to enjoy
what I am doing or I can't do it, so I have tried many things. I have
reached the conclusion that by giving students the chance of learning by
incorporating as many different learning styles as possible. Think about
it, the *same project as before* that you guys made will always be
remembered.
Teacher B
Teachers various levels of a social studies class