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5 Examples of Differentiated Instruction

Differentiated instruction tailors educational experiences to meet individual learner needs. Teachers address a range of student levels, interests, strengths, weaknesses, and goals through one-on-one coaching, small group activities, individualized materials, and projects. While difficult, new adaptive learning technologies can assist teachers by recommending concepts to focus on and providing information about student strengths and weaknesses. This allows teachers to make the most of class time without leaving students overwhelmed or bored.

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5 Examples of Differentiated Instruction

Differentiated instruction tailors educational experiences to meet individual learner needs. Teachers address a range of student levels, interests, strengths, weaknesses, and goals through one-on-one coaching, small group activities, individualized materials, and projects. While difficult, new adaptive learning technologies can assist teachers by recommending concepts to focus on and providing information about student strengths and weaknesses. This allows teachers to make the most of class time without leaving students overwhelmed or bored.

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Differentiated instruction, the tailoring of educational experiences to meet individual learner

needs, is nothing new. Hardworking teachers have always recognized the diverse needs of
students and adjusted their instruction to account for them. Through one-on-one coaching
sessions, small group activities, individualized course packets, reading assignments, and
projects, teachers are addressing a range of student levels, interests, strengths, weaknesses,
and goals in their classrooms today.

Differentiated instruction is difficult and time-consuming work, however, and class sizes are
increasing all the time, making individualized learning harder to achieve. New adaptive
learning technology can assist teachers and augment their efforts by recommending which
concepts to focus on with a learner or an entire class and by providing instructors and
students themselves with information about their concept level strengths and weaknesses.
These advancements allow teachers to make the most of class time, leaving students neither
overwhelmed nor bored.

5 Examples Of Differentiated Instruction


1. Varying sets of reading comprehension questions to answer for a given book
(either chosen by the teacher or student).
2. A personalized course packet with individualized remediation or enrichment
materials.
3. An adaptive assessment that gets easier or harder depending on how a
student is performing.
4. One-on-one coaching with a student, designed around his/her specific
challenges.
5. Students grouped into small groups, which are designed around their
strengths and weaknesses so that they can tutor each other.
5 Non-Examples Of Differentiated Instruction
1. Assigning ‘advanced’ students to teach ‘struggling’ students.
2. Giving ‘advanced’ students no homework.
3. Grouping students into different classes based on their ability.
4. Letting advanced students out of class early or giving them more free play
time.
5. Simply allowing students to choose their own books to read off of a list.
Differentiated instruction and assessment, also known as differentiated learning or, in
education, simply, differentiation, is a framework or philosophy for effective teaching that
involves providing all students within their diverse classroom community of learners a range of
different avenues for understanding new information (often in the same classroom) in terms of:
acquiring content; processing, constructing, or making sense of ideas; and developing teaching
materials and assessment measures so that all students within a classroom can learn effectively,
regardless of differences in ability.[1] Students vary in culture, socioeconomic status, language,
gender, motivation, ability/disability, personal interests and more, and teachers must be aware of
these varieties as they plan curriculum. By considering varied learning needs, teachers can
develop personalized instruction so that all children in the classroom can learn effectively.
[2]
 Differentiated classrooms have also been described as ones that respond to student variety in
readiness levels, interests and learning profiles. It is a classroom that includes all students and
can be successful. To do this, a teacher sets different expectations for task completion for
students based upon their individual needs. [3]
Differentiated instruction, according to Carol Ann Tomlinson (as cited by Ellis, Gable, Greg, &
Rock, 2008, p. 32), is the process of "ensuring that what a student learns, how he or she learns
it, and how the student demonstrates what he or she has learned is a match for that student's
readiness level, interests, and preferred mode of learning." Teachers can differentiate in four
ways: 1) through content, 2) process, 3) product, and 4) learning environment based on the
individual learner.[4] Differentiation stems from beliefs about differences among learners, how they
learn, learning preferences, and individual interests (Algozzine & Anderson, 2007). Therefore,
differentiation is an organized, yet flexible way of proactively adjusting teaching and learning
methods to accommodate each child's learning needs and preferences to achieve maximum
growth as a learner.[5] To understand how students learn and what they know, pre-assessment
and ongoing assessment are essential. This provides feedback for both teacher and student,
with the ultimate goal of improving student learning. [4] Delivery of instruction in the past often
followed a "one size fits all" approach. In contrast, differentiation is individual student centred,
with a focus on appropriate instructional and assessment tools that are fair, flexible, challenging,
and engage students in the curriculum in meaningful ways.

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