Differentiation with a Learning Profile

Learning Style Preferences

Brain Based

Cultural

Gender

Combination of Two

Strategies

Complex Instrucion

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Teacher studies her students to find student strengths.

Hands-on, personal opprotunity to be involved

4-MAT

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There are four steps in this approach.1. mastery of information2. understanding key ideas3. personal involvement4. creating something new related to topic

Differentiation Strategies

Content

Process

Product

Keys to Profile Differentiation

Students preferences vary

Aid in students reflection on profiles

Use several intelligences

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It may help the students if they are given a combination of models to use. For example, teacher structured and student-choice.

Introduce in small parts

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As with anything, if you introduce an idea in its entirety, it can be overwhelming. The idea is to use only a few to emphasize at each time.

Get into your students skin

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Let them know that you want thier input and value thier oppinion.

Early stages of differentiation

readiness

interest

leaning profile