Summary
This video briefly explores the changes in educational paradigms, and presents specific ways in which differentiated instruction responds to the current challenges that are presented by diverse learners in today’s classrooms. Also incorporated is research—past and present—such as:
- The Multiple Intelligences
- Principles of Learning
- Cooperative Learning
- Brain Compatible Learning
- Curriculum scaffolding
- Environmental Organization
Learn how you can differentiate your classroom or train others to differentiate theirs, by observing the teaching and learning process in real classrooms, K-12.
Accompanying this video is a Viewer’s Guide that will provide you with:
- The rationale for differentiation
- The framework for practice
- Materials for use in developing your lessons and/or training
- Other supporting resources
This video will assist you in customizing your instructional practices so as to ensure that all students can be successful. You will learn how to design and implement instruction, and facilitate and assess progress in ways that can meet the needs of ALL your students.
The viewer will be able to :
- Identify the rational and value of differentiation
- Understand a framework for differentiating instruction in classrooms
- Observe specific examples of differentiated instruction in practice
- Present the framework to others using the accompanying Viewer’s Guide
