Week 9- Differentiated Learning

Differentiated learning is a framework for effective teaching. This method of teaching involves providing students with a variety of learning techniques to best fit their needs. This is an important teaching aspect because each student is unique and they bring their own uniqueness into the classroom. Some students may easily learn through lecture where others may not be able to grasp the concepts this way. They may need a method of hands on learning. Some students may excel at taking notes whereas others may need them printed or more time to take them. In classrooms, we need to thrive to meet the needs of all students. I love agriculture education for this reason. In my future classroom, there are so many ways to teach topics differently and fit them to my lessons. This will not only keep the classroom fun and always changing but also will benefit students learning needs.

There are many ways to utilize individualized teaching techniques. I learned from our reading that the ideal situation for this would be each student would work towards and achieve their own specific goals in a way that meets their needs and abilities. I believe a way to achieve this very difficult idea would be to keep variability in the classroom. If you teach in a variety of ways and understand that students may not learn with certain methods but being open to students asking for help if they do not understand a method that is used could work to accomplish this! In large classes as many are today, we need to ensure students understand they can always come to us, the teachers, for help.