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How Differentiated Instruction Can Help You Reach Every Student in Class

Waterford

Research around differentiated instruction confirms this is true. If you can adapt your instruction to reflect your students’ needs and learning preferences, you can make class time more effective and help students become more engaged. What is Differentiated Instruction? Sounds familiar?

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Learning Styles: Fact or Fiction? What This Decades-Old Theory Can Teach Us

Waterford

Then, we’ll discuss how to best incorporate what the learning styles theory teaches about individualized learning in the classroom. Measuring learning styles often involves an assessment such as this one from the Georgia Department of Education. How to Shift from Learning Styles to Differentiated Instruction.

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10 Strategies to Strengthen Instruction and Learning

A Principal's Reflections

These consisted of sound classroom management, listing the learning objectives, and developing a lesson plan. I still can’t believe how much time and focus there was on how to manage a classroom effectively. Feedback is valuable when it is received, understood and acted on (Nicol, 2010). & Cocking, R. Stockard, Jean & W.

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“Common Assessments” vs “Common Understandings”

The Principal of Change

In a recent discussion, I was asked about “common assessments” in a classroom. The thought here is that no matter what classroom you were in, the assessments would look the same. If I ask students to show that they understand the same objective, does the way we assess truly have to be the same?

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Teachers: Don’t Feel Guilty About What You Can’t Do. The System Needs to Change.

Edsurge

I stepped out of the classroom in 2010 to work on education systems change at the state and national level, learning from creative public educators across the country. What if I could do more interdisciplinary work or give credit for learning that happens outside my classroom?

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Why I Had to Develop a Unique Learner Profile to Meet the Needs of My Students

Edsurge

I’ve learned that I need to know my students academically and personally so I can modify instruction to be as effective, engaging and rigorous as possible, so every year I craft personal learner profiles for my students that go beyond their IEP goals and basic personality surveys. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and B.F.

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Inside DC Schools: The Struggle to Develop Personalized Learning’s Independent Learners

Edsurge

And inside the classroom, educators still wrestle with behavior issues, short attention spans and all the distractions that come with online tools. Teacher, Courtney Grant, offering feedback to students in her science classroom on the Summit Platform at Truesdell Elementary Photo Credit: Jenny Abamu. What Is Summit Learning?