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

Waterford

Instead of planning activities based on learning styles, teachers may want to opt for a different, but better researched technique: differentiated instruction. How to Shift from Learning Styles to Differentiated Instruction. What is differentiated instruction and how does it differ from learning styles?

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#05: 5 Ideas for Using Game-Based Learning in your Classroom Today

The CoolCatTeacher

Register for my free Differentiating Instruction with Technology webinar sponsored by SMART Learning Suite next Thursday, February 9 at 4pm. Free Differentiating Instruction Webinar on Thursday, February 9 [link]. Determination of date of winner: February 6, 2017 the name will be drawn and the winner will be notified.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

This could involve using differentiated instruction, incorporating multicultural education, or employing a range of assessment methods. 2013; Parsons, 2012; Vaughn, 2015, ). Adaptive teaching in literacy instruction: Case studies of two teachers. Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al. 57, cited in Vaughn, 2015, p. Reeves, P.

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How to Differentiate Teaching for the advancement of learner Thinking Skills: Simplifying Approaches to Teaching &Learning Series (Part 5)

100mentors

In the current installment, we will see how a cluster of specific thinking skills, that are put forward by both the IBO and contemporary educational research, can surface through differentiated teaching. Acknowledge your learners as individuals through differentiated instruction.

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How to Differentiate Teaching for the advancement of student Thinking Skills: Simplifying Approaches to Teaching & Learning Series (Part 5)

100mentors

In the current installment, we will see how a cluster of specific thinking skills, that are put forward by both the IBO and contemporary educational research, can surface through differentiated teaching. Acknowledge your students as individual learners through differentiated instruction.

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The 7 Key Elements of eSpark’s Theory of Learning

eSpark

In demonstration of this theory, one study found that students who receive adaptive testing paired with individualized instruction show significantly better performance than their peers who receive more generalized instruction (Huey-Min, 2017). #3: 3: Student Engagement Increases Motivation. & Martinez, 1992). Luyten, H., &

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Documenting Maine’s failure to implement proficiency-based education

The Hechinger Report

. Back in 2012, Maine was a trailblazer in something called proficiency-based education, in which students would be required to master specific skills and educational topics to progress and graduate from school. Researchers spent the 2017-18 school year observing three of the 11 high schools closely and conducting interviews.