Blog Prompt: Do you differentiate instruction?
Why? Why Not? What is the important for
differentiating instruction? What impact
does it have on student learning?
I always differentiate instruction because I have students that are far below grade level and content must be broken down in order for them to understand it. If you don't differentiate, you are not effectively teaching your students. You have to consider their strengths, weaknesses, and interests when planning lessons. For example, if the general curriculum asks you to teach the concept of main idea and gives you an article about baseball on the seventh grade level, but your students are on a fifth grade level and you know that many of them love football, you can change the article to be something more engaging or chunk it in a way that it is not overwhelming. Differentiating makes it possible for kids to access the content and material and engages them because material is at an appropriate level.
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