Differentiation - Don’t Roll Your Eyes!

The differentiation collaborative project have had some interesting discussions about how assessment data should be used to identify the needs of each student to allow differentiation to be more focused. There was particular concern about how the more able students are identified and helped to progress at a suitable rate commensurate with their abilities. Differentiation was seen as getting all students in the class to work in the zone of proximal development, wherever that might be for that individual, in that particular lesson.

To prepare for the inservice training day, colleagues in the group chose differentiation strategies to see if they were useful. The collection of strategies can be found here in a folder in the differentiation project google classroom. If you have any difficulty accessing the contents of the folder, please contact Ian Morrison.

The group membership has changed for the second semester and it has been decided that the focus for investigation will be use of technology in middle school classrooms.