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The document discusses five key principles of effective differentiation: respectful tasks, quality curriculum, flexible management, continual assessment, and building community. It states that continual assessment, which requires instruction based on individual student assessments, will be the most difficult principle for the author to implement due to the challenges of teaching students at varying levels simultaneously. The author foresees potential obstacles in properly implementing the principles to achieve student success. However, the author also notes that all five principles seem easy to accept as they promote leadership, accountability, organization, and teamwork in the classroom.
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Edu 673 week 1 discussion 1
- 1. Key Principles of Effective Differentiation week 1 dis. 1 Analyze the five key principles of effective differentiation and discuss which of the five will be the most difficult for you to embrace with a fluid or growth mindset. The text shares five key principles that guide effective differentiation, which are: respectful task, quality curriculum, flexible management, continual assessment, and building community. Also sharing the understanding of a fluid or growth mindset, which teachers with a growth mindset believe it is their role to do what is necessary to be a catalyst for student success and also to enlist the student effort necessary for success (Sousa & Tomlinson, C. A., 2011). The most difficult areas I found out of the five key principles would be continual assessment, simply because your instruction has to be based on the differentiation assessments of each individualized student. Your overall goal is to have all students performing at a specific level defining their gain within the classroom; it is already understood that no one child learn at the same level. Heres an example; you have a total of 21 students within your class, 8 of the 21 students are above where they should be academically meanwhile you have to be able to still teach the 13 students which are struggle to reach the same level as the other students but not fall behind with the ones which are smoothly succeeding within the classroom! What are the obstacles you see that will inhibit implementing the principles in your current or future educational setting? Within my current and also future goals the only obstacles I see with this process is not being able to successfully implement such plans in hopes of gaining a successful outcome. If not implemented correctly such steps could be detrimental to the overall success of each student within the class, placing them at a failing level! Which of the five is the easiest to accept? Why? To be completely honest I found all five key principles pretty easy to accept and follow, each key share great examples of leadership, accountability (from the stand point of educators and students), organization, and teamwork. These are all great principles to follow within the classroom, making for a smoother process! Reference Sousa, D. A. & Tomlinson, C. A. (2011). Differentiation and the brain: How neuroscience supports the learner-friendly classroom.