Lecture 4

Question 1

What is included in differentiated instruction (5)

Answer 1

Respectful tasks- challenging interesting and worth doing
Quality curriculum - Alberta program of studies
Flexible groupings - student work in a variety of groups
Continual assessment - formative assessments
Building community - safe learning environment

Question 2

How can teachers differentiate

Answer 2

Content - what you teach and expect students to learn
Process- how you teach and expect students to learn
Product - how you expect students to demonstrate what they have learned
Affect/ environment

Question 3

You cans further differentiate through

Answer 3

Readiness : matching complexity of task to students level
Interests : providing choice so students may focus on a topic that interests them and can make connections to personal lives
Learning profile : encouraging students to make sense of an index in a preferred learning style

Question 4

Learning accommodations

Answer 4

Change how a student is taught

May include services or support to help student access subject matter or demonstrate knowledge

Question 5

Learner modifications

Answer 5

Change what a student is taught and how the are assessed
Change the curricular goals / objectives for that student
Must be made as a team decision with parents and admin

Question 6

Examples of accommodations

Answer 6

Large print or digital worksheets
 Coloured printing
Books in braille 
Audio books 
Extra time on tests

Question 7

Three types of accommodations

Answer 7

Environmental - alt restive seating snd adaptive devices
Instructional - providing copies of notes , alternative reading materials
Assessment - extra time, oral tests

Question 8

Gestalt theory

Answer 8

Law of pragnanz
We tend to order our experiences that is regular , orderly, symmetrical and simple
Law of closure

Question 9

Ziegarnik effect

Answer 9

We tend to remember incomplete tasks better than complete ones

Question 10

Four stages of insightful learning

Answer 10

Transition - presolution to solution
Performance based- solution gained by insight and is usually smooth and free of errors
Solution to a problem - insight gained is retained for a considerable length of time
Application of principle - insight easily applied to other problems

Question 11

Assimilation of knowledge

Answer 11

Matching between cognitive structures and physical environment

Question 12

Accommodation of knowledge

Answer 12

Adding new knowledge to the structure but if the new knowledge does not fit into the structure then the whole structure is accommodated to explain the new information

Question 13

Piaget’s four developmental stages

Answer 13

Sensorimotor - learned habits
Preoperational - pretending and experimenting with different viewpoints
Concrete operational - able to think logically and classify knowledge and skills
Formal operational - development of abstract thinking and multi step problem solving