when a child enters your classroom / school at the start of the school year

When a child enters your classroom / school at the start of the school year...

DI Fact Sheet

DI Definition

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STUDENTS DIFFER IN: How they learn best What interests them Readiness for the content

What’s the point of PAYING ATTENTION TO THESE STUDENT DIFFERENCES?

LearningProfile

MORE EFFICIENT LEARNING

ATTRACT ATTENTION GROWTH AND ACHIEVEMENT

Interest Readiness

Understanding your students will enable more effective differentiation.

What can be assessed?

LEARNING PROFILE INTERESTS READINESS

Social/Emotional Factors

Learning Styles Multiple Intelligences

Hobbies

Likes

Dislikes

Skills

Content

Concepts

Learning Profile

Social/Emotional Factors: Language Culture Health Family Circumstances Special Circumstances

Facts About Learning Styles

We tend to teach according to how we learn best. A teacher who is a strong auditory learner will prefer this modality when teaching—she might lecture more.

Most people do not use sight, hearing, and touch equally during learning. People develop preferences for certain senses as they learn.

Every lesson should be designed to include all three learning modalities: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. Think VAK for every lesson.

If a child is not understanding your lesson, you should reteach the concept to that child in his/her preferred learning style.

In a differentiated classroom . . .

The More Ways You Teach,

The More Students You Reach!

V A K

Multiple Intelligences

Verbal-Linguistic

Logical-Mathematical

Visual-Spatial

Musical

Bodily-Kinesthetic

Interpersonal

Intrapersonal

Naturalist

What’s the point of PAYING ATTENTION TO THESE STUDENT DIFFERENCES?

LearningProfile

MORE EFFICIENT LEARNING

ATTRACT ATTENTION GROWTH AND ACHIEVEMENT

Interest Readiness

What can be assessed?

LEARNING PROFILE INTERESTS READINESS

Social/Emotional Factors

Learning Styles Multiple Intelligences

Hobbies

Likes

Dislikes

Skills

Content

Concepts

What’s the point of PAYING ATTENTION TO THESE STUDENT DIFFERENCES?

LearningProfile

MORE EFFICIENT LEARNING

ATTRACT ATTENTION GROWTH AND ACHIEVEMENT

Interest Readiness

What can be assessed?

LEARNING PROFILE INTERESTS READINESS

Social/Emotional Factors

Learning Styles Multiple Intelligences

Hobbies

Likes

Dislikes

Skills

Content

Concepts

Differentiated instruction is not something new. Think of the one-room schoolhouse. Teachers faced the

challenge of finding different pathways to help a wide range of learners be successful.

What are some of the ways we are already differentiating instruction?

Important to note…

Using a strategy off this list or any other does not make a differentiated classroom, rather is it how it is used and with whom.

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