Classroom Differentiation

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  1. Hello. My name is Trip smith and this is my
  2. differentiated classroom For the 6th grade.
  3. World cultures in geography class at the McCauley School.
  4. His presentations for A.
  5. D. U.
  6. 6 73 dr Jenkins, Arizona Arizona Global University classroom differentiation
  7. in my classroom is that the Macaulay school At the
  8. McCauley Middle School?
  9. To be exact, this is grades six through 8 Leads
  10. into a high school on the same campus.
  11. Student body is upper to middle class, with 17% of
  12. the student body being made up of students of colour.
  13. Macaulay school is all boys.
  14. I teach the entire 6th grade in five classes, about
  15. 18 students each.
  16. Um In this particular picture that you see my classroom
  17. is the second floor and the second window grouping from
  18. the right as you face this, it is a beautiful
  19. classroom. It overlooks the entire town of Chattanooga Lookout mountain
  20. and Signal mountain from Missionary Ridge.
  21. It is the perfect classroom for a geography class and
  22. cultures class.
  23. You can see a lot of our culture and geography
  24. from the classroom.
  25. Um The classroom environment are set up.
  26. Um uh program I used did not allow me to
  27. put desks in.
  28. I normally have the students in desks groups in force.
  29. My desk is in the back of the classroom, however,
  30. I rarely sit at it.
  31. We have a whiteboard, interactive whiteboard and um on the
  32. wall and closest to the rug.
  33. All of the windows face out west with those individual
  34. disks. Um I can regroup them um and they're all
  35. easily rearranged.
  36. Uh The groupings also allow me for group activities, collaboration
  37. activities that we do at the end of class.
  38. Um The arrangement allows me to move around the classroom
  39. freely and with sixth grade boys, it keeps them moving
  40. around as they followed me around the classroom as I
  41. engage in the classroom discussion.
  42. Um The desks can also be moved apart um to
  43. be created into learning individual learning spaces or peer to
  44. peer. We could go through a lot of different scenarios
  45. with how to group these desks and how to get
  46. the boys to interact with our content.
  47. All of these can be found.
  48. These ways of differentiation can be found in the resilient
  49. educator in 2021.
  50. We also want to make sure that the boys are
  51. constantly immersed um with lots of things, but photos, images
  52. are constantly offered to the guys.
  53. These are some of the images and they're in different
  54. forms. Uh, several of these are puzzles.
  55. I like to display these because I like to do
  56. puzzles and I think that's a good way for the
  57. boys to feel like even as an adult, there are
  58. some things that you can do that you did when
  59. you were a kid as well.
  60. Um, and this buddha poster is what you see when
  61. you come into the classroom and I really want that
  62. to be that the center, our class engagement, we follow
  63. the golden rule, happiness.
  64. If we treat everybody will, everybody will be happy.
  65. So we like to have that kind of environment and
  66. it supports, uh, and we'll support that here in the
  67. next slide.
  68. Um, as you can see, the classroom is really set
  69. up for a discussion based class where the students and
  70. the instructor look to move through a variety of content
  71. to gain better understanding of their textual readings and the
  72. learning, our behavioral environment.
  73. We start off everything with the golden rule, trying to
  74. come to class happy, treat others as you would want
  75. them to be treated.
  76. Um, all of our content is delivered through what President
  77. content presentation.
  78. Um, I have Youtube videos, visuals, discussion questions, um, that
  79. we worked through with each lesson.
  80. Um, we asked the boys to always be polite, remember
  81. to respect others.
  82. One of the big things we like to do in
  83. this class is when I do group, I like to
  84. make sure that the groups are diverse.
  85. Um, and another big thing in our classroom is asking
  86. questions, um, and getting involved in the discussions as far
  87. as I'm concerned, the only bad question is one that
  88. is not asked, and I think that describes a lot
  89. about our classroom.
  90. It's 1/6 grade classroom.
  91. The boys are inquisitive, we use that inquisitive nature to
  92. drive the learning process and skill building process here in
  93. this class.
  94. We do a lot of inference, um, making uh, lots
  95. of skill building for building arguments, drawing conclusions, things like
  96. that are all part of the general makeup of this
  97. class. Some general reference.
  98. Um, some references here for um, my differentiated classroom.
  99. Thank you for listening today.