Workshop 3 - Understanding Differentiation

Differentiation is.... (You can choose more than one)

• A series of lessons designed to respond to students’ needs and to monitor their progress

• Teaching the average group and providing extra help sheets for students at the extremes

• Offering challenges and support to each student

• Individualized Education plan or individualized instruction

• Teaching to the top

Students vary in at least three ways that affect learning:

a. _________: student’s current proximity to current learning targets

b. _________: topics, ideas, or skills that attract a student, generate enthusiasm, or align with a student’s passion

c. _________: it relates to a preferred mode of learning or learning preference

• a. learning profile, b. readiness, c. interests,

• a. interests, b. learning profile, c. readiness

• a. readiness, b. interests, c. learning profile

Which are the foundations of a differentiated classroom? (You can choose more than one option)

• Collect evidence to know your students

• Design standard worksheets and adjust them for higher and lower ability

• Give students choice and voice

• Plan flexible group configurations

How can we achieve flow?

• High challenge + high support

• High challenge + low support

• Low challenge + low support

• Low challenge + high Support

How can we focus on individual meaningful processes when planning the learning outcomes?

• Add assessment criteria

• Layer the assessment criteria

• Write varied learning outcomes

Which of these learning outcomes are SMART?

(You can choose more than one option)

• The students will be able to describe pictures of places and people by using adjectives of quantity, proper adjectives and descriptive adjectives in present simple sentences.

• By the end of the lesson students will be able to identify in an oral text essential information to take a bus

• The students will be showed some pictures of different countries and places and they will be able to recall as many pictures as possible without writing anything.

• In groups of 5 students, they will able to develop skills as remembering some places and countries around the world and also memorizing some pictures showed by the teacher.

• Students will develop oral skills in order to answer some questions related to a previous text.

Which of these learning outcomes are SMART?

(You can choose more than one option)

• Students will be able to use can and can't effectively in the delivery of characteristic and specific information.

• By the end of the lesson students will be able to a. identify causes and effects of the characteristics of Mars, and b. Compare characteristics of two planets

• At the end of the class, the students will be able to participate in dialogues with their peers or teacher

• By the end of the lesson students will be able to defend their opinions in a written formal letter in relation to climate change.

• Students will learn how to work collaboratively promoting their abilities of communicative competences.

For this learning outcome “By the end of the lesson students will be able to describe the weather in a letter to a pen-pal (5th grade)”

Choose the most appropriate Assessment Criteria: All students will be able to...

• Use of parts of the letter

• Fluent use of persuasive language

• Use of connectors to contrast and to add ideas

• Use of evidence to support the opinions

• Use of 3 lexical items which refer to the weather and 3 which refer to clothes

For this learning outcome “By the end of the lesson sts will be able to report what people in their community do to take care of the environment (7th grade)"

Choose the most appropriate Assessment Criteria: All students will be able to...

• Relevance of information collected

• Use connectors to express persuasion

• Use of at least 3 reading strategies

• Accurate use of present simple and lexical items which refer to green practices.

• Appropriate use of visuals/graphics and report writing format