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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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Differentiation strategies to support learners

Kathy Schrock

Cathy Weselby, in a March 2020 post on the Resilient Educator Web site , provides a well-stated overview of the important research, history, and methodologies for differentiating instruction in the classroom. One useful survey I found was the NC State University Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire. Have you used DES to do so?

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Three Things We Learned at Khan Academy Over the Last Decade

Edsurge

I think we all knew, even back then, that technology could one day deliver on the long-held dream of helping teachers to differentiate instruction for every student. A survey of schools and libraries done by the FCC in 2010 found that 80% reported that broadband services did not “fully meet their current needs.”

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Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

The Hechinger Report

Rogers Elementary School here set a three-alarm fire in the library. Differentiated instruction was conceived in the 1950s. It’s why a fire in the library tarnishes a school’s reputation in the minds of parents, sometimes for years. But the surveys put parent satisfaction in the 88th to 96th percentiles.

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What Classrooms Can Learn From Informal Learning

TeachThought - Learn better.

Suddenly, I saw living rooms, parks, co-ops, libraries, churches, and community centers as steady, stimulating learning environments. According to a recent survey administered to a small sampling of homeschool families, they spend over half of the time allotted for education per week pursuing self-directed learning.

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Innovative ideas for school libraries

eSchool News

Key points: School libraries have evolved to offer students and teachers everything they need See article: Modern students need modern librarians See article: 10 reasons we love school librarians For more news on school libraries, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching page What makes an effective school library?