DIFFERENTIATION

Differentiation:

 

• Switches the instructional focus from COMPETITION among ALL students to a student competting with SELF.

 

• Allows for small grouping and one-on-one teacher/student interaction to occur, instead of whole class instruction dominating.

 

• Acknowledges ACCOUNTABILITY.

 

• Engages students as PARTNERS in learning who share the responsibility of being active participants in learning and assessing growth.

 

 

 

 

DIFFERENTIATION is NOT intended to:

• Lable students

• Require students to dutifully complete tasks designed for inclusion in the grade-level curriculum, regardless of individual readiness, learning profile, interests, or dispositions for learning

• Generally, assign the same learning task for all students to complete. (The contrast is shown the degree of difficulty experienced by different students to complete.)

• Punish the accelerated students by giving them busy work