PREPARED BY SUSAN ANNE A. QUIRANTE
RTPM-DUMAGUETE SCIENCE HIGH SCHOOL
SEPTEMBER 21, 2016
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Prior Learning Check
Which are correct and incorrect statements about DI?
1. Differentiated Instruction is student centered.
2. It follows the principles of one-size fits all.
3. In DI, the teacher expects more from advanced
learners than from typical learners.
4. There is more quality rather than simply more of the
same thing.
5. It is a way of thinking and planning.
Prior Learning Check
Which are correct and incorrect statements about DI?
6. DI uses flexible grouping.
7. DI results in a chaotic classroom.
8. The teacher has to make many lesson plans for one
class.
9. DI emphasizes creating a climate for learning.
10. You cannot differentiate goals.
Let’s Learn from Failures
Everybody is a genius.
But if you judge a fish
by its ability to climb
a tree, it will live its
whole life believing
that it’s stupid.
~Albert Einstein
Multiple Intelligences
Howard Gardner
• Intelligence
• ‘the capacity to solve
problems or to fashion
products that are
valued in one or more
cultural setting’
(Gardner & Hatch, 1989)
“Human beings are
organisms who
possess a basic set of
intelligences.”
Multiple Intelligences
Howard Gardner
• All seven intelligences
are needed to live life
well.
• Teachers, therefore,
need to attend to all
intelligences.
•Understanding entails
taking knowledge
gained in one setting
and using it in another.
•‘Students must have
extended opportunities
to work on a topic.
7 Perceptual Learning Styles
• means/modes/pathways by which learners extract
information from their surroundings
• way human beings prefer to concentrate on, store and
remember new and/or difficult information
Learning Modalities
S.D. Powell
• sensory channels or
pathways through which
individuals give, receive,
and store information
visual (seeing)
auditory (hearing)
kinesthetic (moving)
tactile(touching)
“the more senses or
modalities we can activate,
the more learning will take
place”
25-30% visual
25-30% auditory
15% tactile/kinesthetic
25-30% mixed modalities
(Reiff, Eisler, Barbe, Stronck)
Learning Modalities
S.D. PowellAUDITORY
• enjoy reading and being read to.
• be able to verbally explain concepts and scenarios.
• like music and hum to themselves.
• enjoy both talking and listening.
VISUAL
• have good spelling, notetaking, and organizational
• notice details and prefer neatness.
• learn more if illustrations and charts accompany
• prefer quiet, serene surroundings
Learning Modalities
S.D. Powell
KINESTHETI
C
• be demonstrative, animated, and outgoing.
• enjoy physical movement and manipulatives.
• be willing to try new things.
• be messy in habits and surroundings.
TACCTILE
• prefer manipulatives when being introduced to a topic.
• literally translate events and phenomena.
• tolerate clutter.
• be artistic in nature.
• One key reason at-risk children have trouble with
school is that they tend to be [tactile/kinesthetic]
learners.
Auditory instruction can hinder and cause them to fall behind; one-third
of students do not process auditorily and are educationally deaf.”
• An effective means to reach all learners is modality-
based instruction
Organize lessons around the different modalities to accommodate the
needs of all learners
Learning Modalities
S.D. Powell
DIFFERENTIATION
•tailoring instruction to meet individual
needs
•efforts of teachers to respond to
variance among learners
•giving students multiple options for
taking in information
What is
DIFFERENTIATIO
N
I. Ongoing formative assessment
II. Recognition of diverse learners
III. Flexible groupings
IV. Problem solving
V. Choice
Foundation of
DIFFERENTIATION
1. observe and understand the differences and
similarities among students (formative
assessment)
2. use this information to plan instruction
Steps to
READINESS INTERESTS LEARNING PROFILE
what the students need to learn or how
the students will get to access the
information
× Use reading materials
at varying readability
levels
× Use spelling or
vocabulary lists of
difficult words
Content
× Present ideas through
auditory and visual
means
× Meet with small
groups to re-teach
concepts or skills for
struggling learners or
to extend thinking of
advanced learners
Content
what the students need to learn or
how the students will get to access
the information
× Studying a poem?
× Provide a print-out
× Find a version that is set to music or sing it to your
class (if you can)
× Introduce the poem using images
× Count the stressed and unstressed syllables to
determine the rhythmic structure
Process
how students develop the knowledge,
understanding and skills to master the
learner outcomes
× Using tiered activities through which all learners work
with the same important understandings and skills,
but proceed with different levels of support,
challenge, or complexity;
× Offering manipulative or other hands-on supports for
students who need them
Product
How the student is able to
demonstrate what he/she knows,
understands and is able to do as a
result of learning
× Giving students options of how to express required
learning (e.g., create a puppet show, write a letter, or
develop a mural with labels);
× Using rubrics that match and extend students' varied
skills levels; and
× Encouraging students to create their own product
assignments as long as the assignments contain
required elements.
Learning
Environment
the way the classroom works
and feels
• Making sure there are places in the room to work quietly and
without distraction, as well as places that invite student
collaboration;
• Providing materials that reflect a variety of cultures and home
settings;
Example: Consumer Rights (Product)
× Complaint Letter
× linguistic,
interpersonal
× Public Service Radio Ad
× auditory (voice acting)
× linguistic (script
writing)
× technology integration
× Comic Strip
× visual
× Complaint Re-
enactment
× intrapersonal,
auditory (interview)
× interpersonal,
kinesthetic (re-
enactment)
Example: Law of Supply & Demand
• Read a description (linguistic)
• Study and solve mathematical formulas (logical-mathematical)
• Examine a graphic chart that illustrates the principle (spatial)
• Observe the law in the natural world (naturalist) or in the human
world of commerce (interpersonal)
• Have an activity where students move left or right to show shifts
of demand and supply (bodily-kinesthetic)
• Write a song (or find an existing song) that demonstrates the
law (auditory, linguistic)
Prior Learning Check
Which are correct and incorrect statements about DI?
1.Differentiated Instruction is student centered. correct
2. It follows the principles of one-size fits all. correct
3. In DI, the teacher expects more from advanced
learners than from typical learners. incorrect
4. There is more quality rather than simply more of the
same thing. correct
5. It is a way of thinking and planning. correct
Prior Learning Check
Which are correct and incorrect statements about DI?
6. DI uses flexible grouping. correct
7. DI results in a chaotic classroom. incorrect
8. The teacher has to make many lesson plans for one
class. incorrect
9. DI emphasizes creating a climate for learning.
correct
10. You cannot differentiate goals. correct
References
• “What is Differentiated Instruction” by Carol Ann Tomlinson
http://www.readingrockets.org/article/what-differentiated-instruction
• “What is Differentiated Instruction” by Laura Robb
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/what-differentiated-instruction
• How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed-Ability Classrooms, 2nd ed
by Carol Ann Tomlinson
http://westenglish.weebly.com/uploads/3/1/1/3/3113826/differentiated_instruction_tomlison_book.pdf
• “Learning Modalities” by S.D. Powell
http://www.education.com/reference/article/learning-modalities/
• “Howard Gardner, Multiple Intelligences and Education”
http://infed.org/mobi/howard-gardner-multiple-intelligences-and-education/
• “Overview of the Seven Perceptual Styles” by Institute for Learning Styles Research
http://www.learningstyles.org/styles/index.html
• “Modalities”
http://facultyweb.cortland.edu/andersmd/learning/Modalities.htm
Notas del editor
Dr. Gardner says that our schools and culture focus most of their attention on linguistic and logical-mathematical intelligence. We esteem the highly articulate or logical people of our culture. However, Dr. Gardner says that we should also place equal attention on individuals who show gifts in the other intelligences.
It suggests that teachers be trained to present their lessons in a wide variety of ways using music, cooperative learning, art activities, role play, multimedia, field trips, inner reflection, and much more.
One of the most remarkable features of the theory of multiple intelligences is how it provides eight different potential pathways to learning. If a teacher is having difficulty reaching a student in the more traditional linguistic or logical ways of instruction, the theory of multiple intelligences suggests several other ways in which the material might be presented to facilitate effective learning. (http://www.institute4learning.com/multiple_intelligences.php)
Many people recognize that each person prefers different learning styles and techniques. Learning styles group common ways that people learn. Everyone has a mix of learning styles. Some people may find that they have a dominant style of learning, with far less use of the other styles. Others may find that they use different styles in different circumstances. There is no right mix. Nor are your styles fixed. You can develop ability in less dominant styles, as well as further develop styles that you already use well.
Your learning styles have more influence than you may realize. Your preferred styles guide the way you learn. They also change the way you internally represent experiences, the way you recall information, and even the words you choose.
(http://www.learning-styles-online.com/overview/index.php)
Howard Gardner has questioned the idea that intelligence is a single entity, that it results from a single factor, and that it can be measured simply via IQ tests. He has also challenged the cognitive development work of Piaget. Bringing forward evidence to show that at any one time a child may be at very different stages for example, in number development and spatial/visual maturation, Howard Gardner has successfully undermined the idea that knowledge at any one particular developmental stage hangs together in a structured whole. (http://infed.org/mobi/howard-gardner-multiple-intelligences-and-education/)
Howard Gardner has questioned the idea that intelligence is a single entity, that it results from a single factor, and that it can be measured simply via IQ tests. He has also challenged the cognitive development work of Piaget. Bringing forward evidence to show that at any one time a child may be at very different stages for example, in number development and spatial/visual maturation, Howard Gardner has successfully undermined the idea that knowledge at any one particular developmental stage hangs together in a structured whole. (http://infed.org/mobi/howard-gardner-multiple-intelligences-and-education/)
Gardner claimed that the seven intelligences rarely operate independently. They are used at the same time and tend to complement each other as people develop skills or solve problems.
Linguistic intelligence involves sensitivity to spoken and written language, the ability to learn languages, and the capacity to use language to accomplish certain goals. This intelligence includes the ability to effectively use language to express oneself rhetorically or poetically; and language as a means to remember information. Writers, poets, lawyers and speakers are among those that Howard Gardner sees as having high linguistic intelligence.
Logical-mathematical intelligence consists of the capacity to analyze problems logically, carry out mathematical operations, and investigate issues scientifically. In Howard Gardner’s words, it entails the ability to detect patterns, reason deductively and think logically. This intelligence is most often associated with scientific and mathematical thinking.
Musical intelligence involves skill in the performance, composition, and appreciation of musical patterns. It encompasses the capacity to recognize and compose musical pitches, tones, and rhythms. According to Howard Gardner musical intelligence runs in an almost structural parallel to linguistic intelligence.
Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence entails the potential of using one’s whole body or parts of the body to solve problems. It is the ability to use mental abilities to coordinate bodily movements. Howard Gardner sees mental and physical activity as related.
Spatial intelligence involves the potential to recognize and use the patterns of wide space and more confined areas.
Interpersonal intelligence is concerned with the capacity to understand the intentions, motivations and desires of other people. It allows people to work effectively with others. Educators, salespeople, religious and political leaders and counsellors all need a well-developed interpersonal intelligence.
Intrapersonal intelligence entails the capacity to understand oneself, to appreciate one’s feelings, fears and motivations. In Howard Gardner’s view it involves having an effective working model of ourselves, and to be able to use such information to regulate our lives.
http://infed.org/mobi/howard-gardner-multiple-intelligences-and-education/
“The great majority of students can learn using all four modalities, but we all have preferences that can be capitalized on, as well as weaker leanings that can be enhanced. In our classrooms, we must provide an environment that is conducive to all four. Traditional classrooms rely heavily on auditory stimulation with lecture and discussions.”
Perception, memory, and sensation comprise the concept of modality
The modalities or senses include visual, auditory, tactile/kinesthetic, smell, and taste
“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.”
If the students have not learned, the teacher has not taught.
Teachers continually assess to identify students’ strengths and areas of need so they can meet students where they are and help them move forward.
The students we teach have diverse levels of expertise and experience with reading, writing, thinking, problem solving, and speaking. Ongoing assessments enable teachers to develop differentiated lessons that meet every students’ needs.
Students collaborate in pairs and small groups whose membership changes as needed. Learning in groups enables students to engage in meaningful discussions and to observe and learn from one another.
The focus is on issues and concepts rather than “the book” or the chapter. This encourages all students to explore big ideas and expand their understanding of key concepts.
Teachers offer students choice in their reading and writing experiences and in the tasks and projects they complete. By negotiating with students, teachers can create motivating assignments that meet students’ diverse needs and varied interests.
Source: http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/what-differentiated-instruction
-ever changing to allow students to work with different peers
-I mix up how we form groups. Count off regular/irregular, draw lots, choice.
-ever changing to allow students to work with different peers
-I mix up how we form groups. Count off regular/irregular, draw lots, choice.
a teacher proactively plans varied approaches to what students need to learn, how they will learn it, and/or how they will express what they have learned in order to increase the likelihood that each student will learn as much as he or she can.
Activities in which the student engages in order to make sense of or master the content
Activities in which the student engages in order to make sense of or master the content
Activities in which the student engages in order to make sense of or master the content.
In terms of readiness, the activities also start with the simplest (comic strip) toward the most complex (radio ad). Scaffolding was also provided for the complaint letter by providing students with a model letter to base their own letters on.