Behind every scheme to be covered and/or specification to be finished, there are students trying to make sense of how it all links together and can be applied to the questions, scenarios, problems, and/or decisions being presented. All students need support to comprehend the material, while some need to be stretched and challenged further within and beyond the content being considered.
This course explores how to support students who struggle to understand and comprehend the content, while also focusing on meeting the needs of high ability learners, ensuring they are equally challenged and engaged. It achieves this by exploring two main approaches to differentiation:
Shaking up what goes on in the classroom so that students have multiple options for taking in information, making sense of ideas, and expressing learning.
Attending to the particular needs of students (individual and small groups), rather than teaching a class as though learners were all basically alike.
As well as exploring the theoretical foundations of differentiation, the course will mostly focus on various strategies and approaches to personalise the learning for students. Teachers should leave the course with a much greater appreciation of the need to differentiate and with growing confidence to engage in it.
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