1. Foundations and Applications of Differentiating Instruction: Competencies Four and Five Session 7 Managing the Classroom Foundations and Applications of Differentiating Instruction: S3 Competencies Four and Five
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Trying to differentiate instruction or attend to the diverse needs of learners in a single classroom challenges both our thinking and our practice. During today’s workshop, I hope to extend both your thinking about academic diversity in the classroom and your repertoire of practical ideas for managing a multitask classroom. These are quotes from teachers who respond in very different ways to the idea of teaching with different learners in mind. Ask participants to arrange themselves in 4 groups to discuss their own responses to the words of these teachers. Provide a quote to each group.Share responses to each of the quotes. If we all agreed on the importance of teaching with needs of different learners in mind or on how to accomplish it, we’d probably all be a lot better in differentiating instruction than we are now.
Ask participants to make analogies as you call out an item in Column A and one in Column B. Example: How is managing time in a differentiated classroom like rock climbing? How is giving directions in a differentiated classroom like listening to music? Encourage participants to try forced analogies with their students to think more flexibly about ideas for writing, solving problems, interpreting events, and so on. The goal is to look at familiar things in new ways