How can you meet the diverse needs of individual students with a wide variety of learning styles, interests, goals, cultural backgrounds, language differences, prior knowledge, and abilities in your classroom? Most teachers don't want to "teach to the middle," but how do you manage modifying your instruction to meet the individual needs of each of your students?

Through Reaching All Students, a five-course certificate of completion focusing on differentiated instruction, explore and become proficient in:

• What differentiated instruction is and how you create a climate for learning in your classroom
  
• Students multiple ways of knowing and learning (e.g., learning styles/preferences, brain research, multiple intelligences, second language acquisition)
  
• Differentiated instructional strategies and assessment techniques (e.g., by interest, readiness, learning style)
  
• Managing the differentiated classroom (e.g., unit/lesson planning, working with parents and the community, meeting the state benchmarks)
  
• Curricular differentiation strategies (i.e., content, process, and product)