What Differentiated Instruction is and what it is not...

1. DIFFERENTIATE
D
INSTRUCTION
Lucía Marmolejo Jiménez
Bethel University

2. What is Differentiated Instruction (DI)?

3. • Defining our learning goals
• Knowing our students

4. Differentiation
• Is an Instructional model
• It is about the learners
• It needs clearly defined content standards
• It acknowledges that every child learns in
different ways
• It requires the constant assessment of our
students’ standing point in relation to our
content standards
• Adjustment of instruction

5. Misconceptions about DI
• Differentiation is for everyone
• It is an instructional model, not a curriculum model
• Teachers who think they know about DI but in fact have no
clear understanding of what it is
• It is not an extra work
• Having students working separately according to their levels

6. How can we start applying differentiat
our classrooms?
• Providing guidance for students’ practice to solve problems
• Not presenting a large amount of material at once
• Not expecting all students to process all information the first
time
• Giving enough time for students to process new material
• Knowing each students

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