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- Joy Burroughs
- I am originally from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. I relocated to Arizona in 1990. I have been teaching in a small Arizona community on the border of the Navajo Indian reservation. I have worked with middle school students for the last 8 years. This explains my level of insanity.
I tried the Search and Sign from last week. I was amazed that the students liked it - well most of them. I had a few shy students who didn't want to do it, and didn't participate.
ReplyDeleteIt seems to me that there are always a few students that you don't reach.
I think most teachers use it quite a bit in classrooms. I feel that constantly you are modifing work for students and re-evaluating where they are and where they need to be. I use centers and "level" my readers for some items.
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I use differentiated instruction in my classroom today when I did a Search -n - Sign for a chapter review. I also assign differentiated homework and test to accomidate the various needs of my students.
ReplyDeleteI have used DI on a limited basis so far. I am hoping for a variety of ideas to help me use this more. When we do centers children do the tasks according to their own abilities. Some class work is done according to children's previous knowledge or the learning that has taken place.
ReplyDeleteI have used a inventory to see what my students learning style is and tried to incorporated it into my lessons.
ReplyDeleteMy school district went to full inclusion this year. As a result I have used DI to include my SPED students with my regular curriculum as well as when I work with my students who are not quite at grade level.
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I have used Differentiated Instruction by working with small groups. However, I don't feel I do it very successfully. Too many kids goof off while I'm working with a small group.
ReplyDeleteI took an assessment about the students knowledge in Power Point. Students that were already familiar with Microsoft 2007 were allowed to proceed with a presenation. Those who were not familiar watched a tutorial. I then had those students break into small groups (3-4) and work together on a presentation together.
ReplyDeleteToday's classrooms are full of students that are on so many different levels that to reach even a fraction you have to differentiate to a certain degree. I try to present everything in several different ways such as visuals, manipulatives, and even taped so that students can listen to instructions over and over. Vocabualry words are often acted out, are drawn and painted, or written with various tools. Many ways used and open to any and all ideas to improve. The Search and Sign activity was a great success. Great conversations and dialogue going on with ALL students.
ReplyDeleteEvery day I work with students who have IEP's. Each lesson has to be differentiated in order to meet the needs of the individual student and help them meet their IEP goals and objectives. I may have one student working to improve articulation of the /r/ phoneme and another student striving to improve fluency skills. I have to differentiate so that both can work at the same time and meet individual goals.
ReplyDeleteIn math I teach the kids different ways to add and subtract. I start with manipulatives, then pictures, then touch points. Then I walk around, if I need to do small groups or one-on-one, I will. Then the groups progress as they need.
ReplyDeleteI have been organizing center tubs in three categories- high, middle, low. I tested the students in a few different categories and looked at their progress report to get a clear idea of where each student is. When I finish getting the center tubs ready, I plan to have the students go to the tubs when they are finished with an assignment. They will choose a game or skill practice out of the tub at their level and take it to their seat to work on. If it goes well, I plan on adding a time to my lesson plan for use of the differentiated instruction tubs on a weekly basis.
ReplyDeleteFirst, in Spelling I have two spelling lists the star words (Modified Spelling) and regular words. Star Words and Regular Words also go with the homework packets. The star spelling words are made up of phonograms.
ReplyDeleteWhile students are doing accelerated reading, in the morning, it's my time to pull students and work with them in areas they struggle.
When students are finished with their work early, On the back table, there are Math and Reading games prepared for them to play all at various levels. They usually have a list of learning games they can choose from.
When we do the beginning sound page, not all of my students at the same level. I first teach it whole group, and from there I can usually see who needs help and I help them each one individually, depending on their needs.
ReplyDeleteI have used DI for the past 3 days. The first one was when we did hands-on math to show how to travel from one Az. county to another county by doing the concept of vertex edge graph with the students who were struggling. I showed to them the path they can follow one-on-one rather than following how I was doing it on the document camera. The second one, was when I did reading group with my slow readers. I asked them comprehension questions to understand the story. The last one was, when I reviewed the math concept with few students the concept of decimals and fractions.
ReplyDeleteYes. I didn't realize that I did but I do. I have children who read above a fifth grade level and I have students who are at a Pre-Premier level and one who doesn't know his sounds. Each day when I have reading groups, I focus on different goals for each group. One group is working on comprehension, one on fluency, one on decoding and one (bless his heart) is working on letter recognition and initial sounds.
ReplyDeleteI use DI in my classroom, but I do know I could use more DI with my students. I gave my Search and Sign this week in Math and the students really enjoyed the idea.
ReplyDeleteI have used it in various subject areas to enable student learning. In the area of writing it has helped my students so that they are able to create stories to include real life experiences. It was more free writing and not so much emphasis on critiquing to get them started.
ReplyDeleteI have not used much DI in my classroom. One subject I have used it in is math. Last week we were working on elapsed time. Students were able to use small clocks. This worked to their advantage since most of their experiences had been with digital clocks.
ReplyDeleteI used the search and sign this week in my class to practice spelling words. It went really well and hope to learn more ways to use differentiated instruction in my classroom.
ReplyDeleteSince I am not in the classroom, the use of DI for our staff members has/will be implemented. Being a DI coach, it is proper to walk the walk. Also, when speaking with students, a quick assessment is made for comprehension.
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