Inclusive education and modern pedagogies presuppose teachers’ capacity to adapt their teaching to the individual needs of each student. Yet this can be written easily on paper, but hard – if not impossible – to realize in practice!
How to solve the puzzle of differentiated instruction? How to teach one subject effectively while taking into consideration the manifold needs of all learners?
The course will make participants discover how to differentiate their teaching to take into consideration the individual needs and inclinations of every student.
Differentiated learning (or instruction) is specifically based on understanding and promoting five main areas:
Understanding students’ interests and inclinations;
Using differentiated content;
Understanding individual learning processes;
Activities to promote collaboration in the classroom;
Differentiated assessment strategies.
Participants will explore one of these areas every day of the course. Thus, they will learn to create a positive learning environment, provide students with differentiated content, to design lesson plans that take into account all aspects essential to the development of individual students and respect individual specificities and generate assessment procedures that consider the differential learning of the student.
Significantly, when teaching is planned with differentiated learning, students exert a positive influence on each other and take advantage of each individual’s strengths and interests to improve their learning.
By the end of the course, participants will know how to make their teaching more differentiated, and how to involve actively students in collective learning.
What is included
Unmatched Support: full day chat assistance
Fully Fundable: tailored on Erasmus+ budgets
Flexibility Guaranteed: easy changes with minimal restrictions
360° experience: from coffee breaks to cultural visits
Connect the interest of students with different school subjects;
Design differentiated lesson plans;
Develop innovative assessment strategies;
Design an inclusive classroom;
Reflect on core competencies for continuing education;
Foster inclusive behaviors at school.
Tentative schedule
Day 1 – What is differentiated instruction?
Introduction to the course, the school, and the external week activities;
Icebreaker activities;
Presentations of the participants’ schools;
Differentiated Instruction: one definition and many applications;
How different learning approaches can work together effectively: differentiated instruction and the 21st Century Skills.
Day 2 – Differentiated instruction: interests and inclinations
How to take advantage of the student’s interests?
Connecting personal interests with different school subjects;
How to develop differentiated learning materials: an introduction.
Day 3 – Differentiated content
The challenge: developing differentiated content(s) in a short time;
Activity: create differentiated instruction content for your students;
Lesson plan: including differentiated materials and activities in the same lesson.
Day 4 – Differentiated instruction: understanding different learning processes
How learning processes work and how to make the most of differences in the learning process successfully;
Activity: discover the learning process of your students.
Day 5 – Differentiated assessment and evaluation
How to develop meaningful and successful differentiated evaluation strategies;
Include different assessment strategies in your lesson plan;
Creation and presentation of the participants’ lesson plans.
Day 6 – Course closure and cultural activities
Course evaluation: round-up of acquired competencies, feedback, and discussion;
Awarding of the course Certificate of Attendance;
External cultural activities
Dates and locations
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Reviews about this course
The activities that we discussed and that we experienced are adaptable to any kind of student and need. Furthermore, the teacher was able to help us create a very inclusive group and interesting debates.
Agnieszka Piekielny
The great number of practical activities, preparation, and conduction of the course, interesting issues and topics discussed, very involving and energetic teacher, the atmosphere in the group. The course went far beyond my expectations.
Manuela Steidl
I enjoyed the well-structured layout of the course, the leaner-friendly atmosphere in the classroom, and the many activities I can take home. Thank you Ciara!