Differentiation for students with different educational needs in your subject area or age phase
Differentiation for students with different educational needs in your subject area or age phase. A school comprises communities of pupils with diverse needs therefore planning for this diversity is of paramount importance. ... As such effective teaching of a class will always have to involve differentiation. As per Kerry (2002) differentiation is the process whereby the levels of tasks set to students in class or homework are matched to the known levels of performance and potential of the individual students involve. Differentiation is about meeting the needs of those people who have special educational needs and also about meeting the needs of every individual student. As teachers we should be aware of the responses to any individual’s particular needs in communication and interaction, cognition and learning, behavioral, emotional and social development or physical development. As per Kyriacou (1998) there are three main approaches to differentiation · by task · by outcome · by support Differentiation by task involves offering different activities to individual or specific groups of children where the learning outcomes may be similar or different.