The most important aspect of successful differentiation is to know your students. Knowing your students and allowing them to demonstrate learning via their individual strengths is the hallmark of differentiated instruction. While nothing is better than one-on-one conversation; realistically, most teachers do not have the luxury of this, especially at the beginning of the year. These student and learning surveys provide an efficient way to learn about your students.
A great time saver is to have students fill out the student identification cards themselves. This is something I discovered after having spent literally hours filling in the cards for multiple classes.
Once you have all of the student information, you'll be able to quickly arrange students in flexible groups for seating charts or cooperative learning.
A great time saver is to have students fill out the student identification cards themselves. This is something I discovered after having spent literally hours filling in the cards for multiple classes.
Once you have all of the student information, you'll be able to quickly arrange students in flexible groups for seating charts or cooperative learning.