- What Teachers who differentiate "Do"
- Understanding Goals
- Skills goals
- Learning goals:Historical facts and fiction
- Flexible Grouping
- Differentiated elements
- Create a learning environment where students unique and shared qualities are valued.
- Uncover student needs through ongoing assessment.
- Plan experience and tasks bound together by common and important learning goals.
- Present varied avenues for students to take in progress and produce knowledge.
- Use various grouping configurations frequently
- Orchestrate fluid routines and management systems.
Understanding Goals:Stories about people and events from the past sometimes combine fact and fiction
Skills Goals:distinguish between fact and fiction when sharing stories about events and people using primary and secondary sources.
Differentiation is not new,and not an endpoint or something teachers can be "finished"with.
Learning goals:Historical facts and fiction
Historical facts:are information about the past that is true and can be proven.
Historical Fiction:is the information about the past that is not true or didn't happen,it might be based on truth.
Flexible Grouping:Is defined by organizing students intentionaly and fluidly for different learning experiences over a short time by making a series of deliberate and purposeful decisions about the size of groups will be formed.Use Flexible Grouping within the classroom_community building _Interactivity and collaboration.
Differentiated elements :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 bhe or she has learned in a unit.
Learning environment:the way the classroom works and feels.
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