Jefferson County's Sheri A. Rhodes said she felt like she was failing her gifted students because so much of her time was being spent on students who were below grade level, but then she discovered how differentiated instruction could help everyone in her classroom.
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Sarah Reed By Sarah Reed sarah.reed@jefferson.kyschools.us Each year students enter my classroom with different levels of knowledge and individual learning styles. Not all students learn instructional content in the same way or have the same level of proficiency. Consequently, I use differentiated instruction to support the needs of my students and to maximize their learning potential. When I [...]
Differentiating instruction can feel like a formidable task, and it’s easy to get into the habit of “teaching to the middle” — presenting material and using teaching methods suited to the majority of students rather than to each individual. However, with the right strategies and a little practice, differentiation doesn’t have to be all that difficult. CIITS and Edivation offer [...]
Making differentiated instruction work is critical to student success, teachers agree.