EDU 551 Differentiated Instruction

Topic 3: Field Experience A: Differentiated Instruction Interview

5 Hours

Interview a special education teacher, a general education teacher, an administrator, a teacher’s aide, and one special area teacher (PE, art, music, computers, library, etc.) and discuss differentiated instruction Consider the following:

• Do you feel prepared to differentiate instruction for individual students and groups of students?
• Do you feel your colleagues and other school personnel are prepared to differentiate instruction for individual students and groups of students?
• Do you feel that you differentiate instruction effectively in your current role?
• Do you feel that your colleagues differentiate instruction effectively?
• Are there any resources you think might be beneficial to aid in differentiated instruction?

Write a 250-350 word summary of your interviews. These interviews will inform your Benchmark assignment in Topic 5.

Topic 4: Field Experience B: Differentiated Instruction Interview

4 Hours

Review the lesson plan you revised in Topic 3 with at least two teachers at your school. Ask them to evaluate the lessons for evidence of differentiated instruction. Take note on where the teachers feel you could more explicitly differentiate.

Spend the remainder of your field experience hours observing at least two teachers in your school, looking for evidence of differentiated instruction.

Write a 250-350 word summary of the feedback the teachers gave you and what you witnessed in their classrooms. You will use this information in your Benchmark assignment.

Topic 5: Field Experience C: Delivering Differentiated Curriculum Presentation

1 Hour

Deliver the professional development presentation on differentiated curriculum that you created for the Benchmark this week to a small group of teachers. Elicit their feedback on the presentation.

Write a 150-250 word summary of the feedback the teachers gave you on your professional development presentation.

Topic 1 DQ 2

How do diverse cultural values represented in a single classroom influence learning? Discuss 2-3 ways that teachers can recognize and show that they appreciate students’ cultural values.

Funds of Knowledge Professional Development

Create a 12-15 slide digital presentation on Funds of Knowledge for an audience of your peers. You must include a title and reference slide as well as 3-5 peer-reviewed scholarly sources. Your professional development presentation needs to include the following:

• Define funds of knowledge.
• Define cultural values and community background.
• Describe how funds of knowledge and cultural values intersect.
• Provide three examples that your colleagues may see in their classrooms of funds of knowledge, cultural values, and community backgrounds.
• From your three examples, determine the effect cultural values and community background have on learning.
• Define differentiated instruction.
• Explain how funds of knowledge, cultural values, community background, and differentiated instruction are related.
• Include one activity your audience would need to participate in to help them understand the relationship between differentiated instruction and funds of knowledge.

Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is/is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

Topic 2 Discussion Questions

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DQ 2

DQ 1

Chapters 2 & 3

Discuss two cognitive processes associated with learning that you have witnessed in students. As an educator, what can you do to positively influence the cognitive process?

Discuss the influence of development on learning? How does social and emotional development influence learning? How does physical development influence learning?

Principles of Learning Lesson Plan and Rationale assignment

Use the “COE Lesson Plan Template” to complete this assignment. Create a lesson plan that promotes cultural diversity in the grade level, content area, and on a topic of your choice. Your lesson plan must clearly reflect an understanding of the learning theory and must be at the appropriate developmental level for students in the grade level you have chosen.

Write a 250-300 word rationale for the instructional decisions you made in the lesson plan, explaining which learning theory your lesson plan supports. Be sure to justify your decisions with the developmental levels of the students in mind.

While APA format is not required for this assignment, solid academic writing is expected. In-text citations and a reference page should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

Discussion Question One

List at least two ways you can identify student’s readiness for learning according to their developmental and performance levels. Describe why it is important to understand if students are ready to learn or not.

Discussion question two

Compare two ways in which you can evaluate individual students’ interests to inform instruction. Which are you most likely to use in your classroom? Explain.

Field Experience A: Differentiated Instruction Interview

Spend 5 hours completing this field experience (Template in Forum).

Interview a special education teacher, a general education teacher, an administrator, a teacher’s aide, and one special area teacher (PE, art, music, computers, library, etc.) and discuss differentiated instruction Consider the following:

• Do you feel prepared to differentiate instruction for individual students and groups of students?
• Do you feel your colleagues and other school personnel are prepared to differentiate instruction for individual students and groups of students?
• Do you feel that you differentiate instruction effectively in your current role?
• Do you feel that your colleagues differentiate instruction effectively?
• Are there any resources you think might be beneficial to aid in differentiated instruction?

Write a 250-350 word summary of your interviews. These interviews will inform your Benchmark assignment in Topic 5.

Differentiating Using GRASPS

Revise your lesson plan from Topic 2 to include technology and differentiation for readiness, interest, instruction, and learning preferences. Refer to your textbook for information on creating a GRASPS Frame. Create a GRASPS Frame handout to use as a performance assessment for the lesson plan you revised in this topic.

Write a 250-350 word rationale evaluating how your lesson plan and GRASPS handout differentiates for readiness, interest, instruction, and learning preferences using technology.

Submit your revised lesson plan, the GRASPS handout, and the rationale as one deliverable to your instructor in LoudCloud.

GRASPS FRAME

As a means of creating more authentic “performances of understanding,” we recommend that teachers frame assessment tasks with the features suggested by the acronym GRASPS.

(1) a real-world GOAL

(2) a meaningful ROLE for the student

(3) authentic (or simulated) real-world AUDIENCE(s)

(4) a contextualized SITUATION that involve real-world application

(5) student-generated culminating products and PERFORMANCES

(6) consensus-driven performance STANDARDS (criteria) for judging success.

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Discussion Questions

Topic 4 DQ 1

Topic 4 DQ 2

How does Understanding by Design help teachers develop appropriate sequencing of a lesson to facilitate learning?

Looking back on what you have learned about differentiated instruction and Understanding by Design, discuss how essential questions can help to create relevant learning experiences that are appropriate for curriculum goals and content standards.

topic 5 discussion questions

DQ 2

DQ 1

How can you motivate students to accelerate their own learning? Explain.

Should assessments be differentiated? Discuss two opportunities you could provide students to demonstrate their learning in different ways on the same lesson.

Field Experience C: Delivering Differentiated Curriculum Presentation

(SEE QTI Topic 5 Templates)

Spend 1 hour completing this field experience.

Deliver the professional development presentation on differentiated curriculum that you created for the Benchmark this week to a small group of teachers. Elicit their feedback on the presentation.

Write a 150-250 word summary of the feedback the teachers gave you on your professional development presentation.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance.

Document the hours and locations that you spend in the field on your Clinical Field Experience Verification Form.

Submit the Clinical Field Experience Verification Form with the last assignment by the assignment due date. Directions for submitting can be found on the College of Education site in the Student Success Center.

Benchmark – Differentiated Curriculum Presentation

(SEE QTI Topic 5 Templates)

Create a 17-20 slide digital presentation on differentiating curriculum. Your presentation should consider the interviews you had with the faculty and staff at your school, and the feedback you received. Target your presentation accordingly. You must include presenter’s notes, a title slide, and a reference slide. In your presentation, address the following:

• How to create developmentally appropriate instruction that takes into account individual student’s strengths, interests, and needs and that enable each student to advance and accelerate his or her learning, along with at least two examples of differentiated instruction strategies.
• The importance of using assessment data to differentiate instruction, and an example of how that is done.
• How to design instruction to address each student’s diverse learning strengths and needs, and create opportunities for students to demonstrate their learning in different ways, with at least two examples of differentiated assessments.
• How to actively and equitably engage students by organizing, allocating, and coordinating the resources of time, space, and learners’ attention, with at least one room arrangement example that allows for differentiation.
• A description of the importance of culturally diverse and differentiated curriculum with at least two examples of resources teachers can use in this endeavor.
• How teachers can use technology to differentiate instruction with at least two examples of technological tools/resources teachers can use.

Use 3-5 scholarly resources and document all other resources.

Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is/is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance.

Submit this assignment to your instructor in LoudCloud.