Differentiated Instruction
SPED 201
Differentiated Instruction
Jasmine Lewis
SPED 201
Classrooms today are more diverse than ever. According to New York Times American schools have increased by more than over 5 million since the 1990s. This increase has been fueled by the immigration of Hispanics and Asians (NY Times). But differences in ethnicity are not the only reasons for diverse classrooms. Special needs students also contribute to diversity in our education school system. It is the responsibility of the teacher to make sure that their instruction caters to the needs of all their students. A way to accomplish this is through differentiated instruction. Differentiated instruction is identified as a way to recognize students’ varying backgrounds knowledge, readiness, language, preferences in learning and interests; and to react responsively. It is the ability to carry out a lesson in a way the teacher can teach students with different learning abilities in the same classroom.
No two children enter the classroom with the same learning styles or the same previous learned knowledge. Learning styles, language proficiency, background knowledge, and readiness to learn are different in each child and play a role in differentiated instruction. In order to properly carry out …show more content…
When learning some special need children cannot sit for long periods of times. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a problem of not being able to focus, being overactive and not being able control behavior. With this disorder it will be hard for a child to sit for a long time and try to understand the lesson that the teacher may have set out. Some things the teacher can do to get around this issue is when teaching math they can add and subtract student from groups and have another student count to see how man there
Differentiated Instruction
Jasmine Lewis
SPED 201
Classrooms today are more diverse than ever. According to New York Times American schools have increased by more than over 5 million since the 1990s. This increase has been fueled by the immigration of Hispanics and Asians (NY Times). But differences in ethnicity are not the only reasons for diverse classrooms. Special needs students also contribute to diversity in our education school system. It is the responsibility of the teacher to make sure that their instruction caters to the needs of all their students. A way to accomplish this is through differentiated instruction. Differentiated instruction is identified as a way to recognize students’ varying backgrounds knowledge, readiness, language, preferences in learning and interests; and to react responsively. It is the ability to carry out a lesson in a way the teacher can teach students with different learning abilities in the same classroom.
No two children enter the classroom with the same learning styles or the same previous learned knowledge. Learning styles, language proficiency, background knowledge, and readiness to learn are different in each child and play a role in differentiated instruction. In order to properly carry out …show more content…
When learning some special need children cannot sit for long periods of times. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a problem of not being able to focus, being overactive and not being able control behavior. With this disorder it will be hard for a child to sit for a long time and try to understand the lesson that the teacher may have set out. Some things the teacher can do to get around this issue is when teaching math they can add and subtract student from groups and have another student count to see how man there