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)


