differentiated teaching

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differentiated teaching

fleur

differentiated teaching

Dear friends

our schools are encouraging the use of differentiated

teaching and learning methodology.

What are your views about this issue?

With how many children in class is this possible?

We do give individual attention to kids who have some

difficulties but on the whole it �s a whole group teaching

we use mostly during the day.

At primary/elementary level we have a single teacher

to teach a number of subjects per class with 20 - 30

children.

Thanks for sharing your views.

21 May 2009

skittles

Differenciated instruction is really benificial to the students but is definitley more work for the teachers. I try to divide the work up into three different levels and have started by doing just one subject at a time- i don �t think that it is something you can just do overnight. I think the hardest part is finding an activity that students can do on their own while I am instructing another group of students.

21 May 2009

fleur

Dear skittles

thanks for your reply.

It surely is a hard task.

If you usually have three

groups how many children are

there per group?

21 May 2009

kmtr

Differentiated instruction is more work on the front end, but I think it pays off on the flipside because the children get more out of what you are doing. I do a lot of staff training at my school for the content teachers on how to differentiate for the English Language Learners. Don �t try to come up with 3 entirely different things. Take what you already are doing, and see how to make an easy, middle, hard version. For example, if you are learning about weather, choose three different leveled readers (there are a lot of great websites for leveled readers, like www.readinga-z.com) or add visuals to the sides of the readings to help with comprehension. If they are writing something, have the lower kids write a paragraph when the advanced kids are writing a page. If you are doing math, choose fewer problems for the lower students to practice. These are just some quick suggestions. Start with small adaptations. I think you will find it pays off and you will find new, creative ideas on how to modify what you are all ready doing.

27 May 2009