Inclusion - Differentiated Instruction Flashcards
Goal of DI?
Create independent thinkers, who are responsible for their own learning
Effective DI involves:
- Know your students
- understand the curriculum
- providing multiple pathways to learning
- share responsibility with students
- taking a flexible and reflective approach
DI vs. Good Teaching
GOOD TEACHING
- all students feel welcome, getting to know each student
- promote on task behavioral & be sure students have a plan
DI
- flexible grouping, why/what purpose for groups
- satisfying student needs to grow & succeed
- allow for different timelines/version of assignments
Response to Intervention model (RTI)
Tier 1: universal: disabilities, high quality learning opportunities and support for all students–disabilities that have mild to moderate impact on their learning: response is + to supports
Tier 2: target support - academic failure at risk & behaviour problems, targeted, specific prevention & intervention for students– benefit from DI,
Tier 3: intensive - specialists involved, intensive, individual interventions, insufficient response to intervention
Who are exceptional learners?
- gifted or DEVELOPMENTALLY ADVANCED: show high abilities in 1 of several areas
- LEARNING DISABILITIES: discrepancy between ability & achievement
- SPEECH AND LANGUAGE EXCEPTIONALITIES
- ADHD
- BEHAVIOR & EMOTIONAL EXCEPTIONALITITES
- INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES
- AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER
- DEAF & HARD OF HEARING
- VISUAL IMPAIRMENTS/BLIND
- PHYSICAL DISABILITIES
What does Understanding the Curriculum entail?
- big ideas
- implications of outcomes
- skills that are essential for meeting the LO
- outcomes relate to different students experiences & backgrounds
- motivation
- building their understanding and skills
When providing multiple pathways to learning what do teachers need to do?
- know/use a variety of teaching methods
- build open-endedness
- work in a variety of contexts
- learning groups based on: readiness, interest, preferences, experience, needs
Sharing responsibility with students, teachers need to:
- scaffold
- build on interest/skills
- student choice & independent learning
- build personal strategies and set goals, reflect, self-monitor/assess
Flexible and reflective approaches:
- interest are always changing, keep them interested
- multiple routes
What are two different adaption?
AKA
Examples
- Accommodation: change HOW a student is taught/assessed (instructional accommodations). Fully access the subject matter & instruction or demonstrate knowledge Examples: enlarged print, sign language, preferential seating - Modification: change WHAT a student is taught/assessed (curriculum modifications). alteration of performance level by reducing content to be learned, change in evaluation, alteration of goals, difficulty TEAM decision (student, teacher, parent)
Keep in Mind:
- opportunities to get to know students
- set goals & identify key concepts, ideas, skills
- set up multiplie pathways to learning
- involve students through choice, interests, independence & reflections
- flexibility is key
- opportunities to get to know students
- set goals & identify key concepts, ideas, skills
- set up multiplie pathways to learning
- involve students through choice, interests, independence & reflections
- flexibility is key
What are the ways to differentiate instruction?
content, process, and product
What is Differentiating Content
- WHAT
- input
- what you want students to learn
What is Differentiating Process
- HOW
- self-aware of LP
- activity, specifically what they’re doing
- what else can we do to meet objective
What is Differentiating Product
- assessment
- choice=engagement in learning
how to differentiate content by interest
- figure our what students interests are
the choice = motivating, & enthusiastic - interest surveys
How to differentiate learner profiles?
- gardner’s mi
- how do they learn best
- Expert teacher: knows how each student learns best
How to differentiate readiness?
- their is choice, but there are tasks for all students to do
- current level & growth, little bit of challenge, but still room to grow
What is DI?
“shaking up what goes on in the classroom”
- multiple actions for taking info in, making sense, and expressing
- maximizing lrng. & increase success for ALL
- different avenues to acquire C, P, P
DI is not?
- individualized instruction
- providing homogenous grouping (must be fluid)
- “tailoring the same suit of clothes”
- Chaotic
DI is?
- Proactive: variety of ways to get @, & express learning
- More qualitative than quantitative
- Rooted in assessment: beg, mid, end.
- A way to provide multiple approaches to content process and product
- student centered
- a blend of whole class, group and individual instruction: small/individual, brings out new lrng
- organic: dynamic: continuously making adjustments
Learning takes place most effectively in classrooms where?
- knowledge is organized
- highly active in lrng. process
- assessment is rich and varried
- connection to lrng
- zpd
- motivation increases when interested in lrng
Rationale for DI:
3 conclusions about teaching and learning that drive effective differentiating?
- the image of the “standard issue” student: inevitability exists
- there is not substitute for high-quality curriculum/instruction
- build bridges between lrner & lrng
- non negotiable
Comparing Classrooms: Traditional
- differences are masked
- assessment is single form at the end
- single definition of intelligence
- student interest is infrequently tapped
- LP aren’t taken into account
- whole class instruction
- single options
- inflexible
- single interpretations
- teacher directed
Comparing Classrooms: Differentiated
- work together to set goals
- differences are used
- ongoing assessment
- MI
- excellence = individual growth
- interest based learning
- LP’s are produced
- multi-optioned assignments/materials
- teacher facilitates
DI: words of wisdom
- doesn’t have to be everyday
- can work within comfort zone
- start small