This is the first course in a series of two courses, namely, Getting Ready to Differentiation and Differentiation II. This course explains how a teacher can understand their students better and use that information to teach students even though they might be very different.

 Thank you for embarking on this journey. This course falls under the category Classroom Instruction. Getting Ready to Differentiate is a Level 2 course. Through this course, we will learn what differentiation is, why it is an important method of teaching to ensure ALL children in your class is learning and how to be prepared to execute it in the classroom. Differentiation is not a strategy or a set of strategies. It is a mode of thinking that a teacher uses to ensure that they can cater to the learning of every student in their classroom.

Standards

This course meets the following standards:

• Teaching As Leadership Standards

P-4 Differentiate plans for individual students based on their unique learning profiles (including ongoing performance data) so that all students are engaged and challenge

 

• CENTA Standards:

CD.3.3a: Ability to create/modify a given lesson plan for different groups of students according to their needs.