Differentiation Strategies:
I have offered multiple differentiation strategies for teachers to access, organize, synthesize, share, and reflect upon their own learning, for each stage of the inquiry process. I have also offered additional tech tool suggestions for each stage of inquiry, for you to use in the unit you create for your students. I have modeled this type of differentiation for you, in my PD lesson plans for each session, and my expectation is that you, also, offer multiple ways for your students to do the same. The other major task that is being asked of you, is to personalize your units, to reflect the personalized learning plans of individual learners. This differentiates the content, and it may also differentiate the tech tools, you choose to integrate in your lesson plans, based upon the individual learning needs of each student.
I have offered multiple differentiation strategies for teachers to access, organize, synthesize, share, and reflect upon their own learning, for each stage of the inquiry process. I have also offered additional tech tool suggestions for each stage of inquiry, for you to use in the unit you create for your students. I have modeled this type of differentiation for you, in my PD lesson plans for each session, and my expectation is that you, also, offer multiple ways for your students to do the same. The other major task that is being asked of you, is to personalize your units, to reflect the personalized learning plans of individual learners. This differentiates the content, and it may also differentiate the tech tools, you choose to integrate in your lesson plans, based upon the individual learning needs of each student.
- The use of offering digital resources (Gale), which include an audio option, which is particularly important for auditory learners, or Howard Gardner's ~ Verbal-linguistic intelligence.
- The use of videos, which are not only for visual learners, but also auditory learners, Howard Gardner's Spatial-visual intelligence. It is also important for those who may not hear, but can read the closed captioning, if they choose to do so.
- Teachers choose the career, that they would like to connect to the unit, they will be designing. When teachers actually interact with students, and connect classroom content to student PLP's, they will be addressing Howard Gardner's Interpersonal Intelligence.
- Students may choose the questions they would like to ask of others, when directed to do so, on the group discussion board.
- Teachers choose the digital tools they would like to use, to design the unit for their students.
- Teachers choose the tech tool they would like to use, to reflect upon their own learning in session six.
- Teachers will be assessed in different formative and summative ways ~ please see the assessment evidence page
- Constructivist learning activities, which engage learners as they explore each of the tools, they choose to use for their specific unit.