Sustainable Differentiation Strategies for the Modern Classroom

The diversity of skills, talents, and interests of students that we serve in our schools requires a remarkable range of teachers’ time, resources and competence.

In order to accommodate the needs of students across many different levels of academic achievement, teachers have been encouraged to make an effort to differentiate their instruction.

However, teachers often struggle to implement differentiation in a sustainable manner – the effort to facilitate differentiation for one day is hard to routinize across multiple lessons. This course looks at easy-to-use strategies to acknowledge and accommodate student differences.

During the course, we will:

• Examine different strategies for making differentiation sustainable
• Identify and exploit entry points for differentiating instruction
• Develop and apply 'look fors' in effective differentiation.