What is differentiation?
Teachers differentiate by providing several learning options, or different pathways to learning, which facilitates how students learn new information and makes sense of concepts through student skill strength. Differentiation provides appropriate levels of challenge for all students. Appropriate levels of challenge are different for all students. Some students fall behind those who are advanced and there are some students in the middle. For differentiation to work, teachers must get to know students and their individual interests (non-school). Then, the teacher must identify how instruction can be adapted to best facilitate that individual student. Differentiation focuses on individual process, growth and success.
What will be differentiated?
Content - input; what students will learn
Process - how students go about making sense of ideas and information
Product - output; how students demonstrate what they have learned