Instruction

=Instruction to Meet Students' Needs=

Designing instruction to meet students' needs has two parts: posing respectful tasks to students, those which are engaging and worth-while, and the grouping of students in ways which will support the desired learning.


 * Students can only learn what they have been given a chance to learn; and can only learn it to the depth which they have been questioned to! **

Think about these questions: How can students in the same class work toward understanding of a concept/big idea in different ways? Examples you’ve done or heard of? We can see how tasks can be designed to meet students’ readiness, interest and learning profile needs, but how does our choice of groupings affect the task and learning? How is scaffolding of a task alike or different from instruction? What strategies do you know to differentiate instruction?

The gapbetween students' current understanding and the learning goal is called the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD), click here to see different visual representations of the ZPD, then click on one to read more about this zone and the diagram itself.

Explore these sites for task options for students to show what they know: Multiple Intelligences Product Chart

These sites support the scaffolding of students tasks based on thegapbetween students' current understanding and the learning goal: Equalizer Thinking about the Equalizer

Learn more about flexible grouping at these sites: Yukon Math Flexible Grouping Flexible Grouping Successfully Reaching all Readers

Teacher Questioning: Questions organized by Bloom's Taxonomy