Take a Fresh Look at Differentiation and Adaptive Teaching
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🎯 Practical, low-planning techniques for differentiation and adaptive teaching.
🎯 Easily find ways to scaffold, model and support learners who are struggling to access the learning.
🎯 Suitable for primary and secondary.
🎯 New and familiar strategies you can deploy in your teaching.
🎯 Increase personalisation in your classroom without having to create lots of extra resources or plan multiple lessons and activities.
For me, differentiation and adaptive teaching are synonymous, and always have been.
Effective differentiation is about selecting and deploying the strategies, activities and techniques that help all learners to make great progress, whatever their starting points.
It begins from the premise that the teacher is the most important resource in the room.
What they do, how they interact with learners, and the decisions they make in the moment drive a huge proportion of effective differentiation.
Or adaptive teaching, if you prefer.
Expand Your Repertoire with 80 Strategies, Activities and Techniques to Personalise Learning
When I created The Differentiation Deviser, my goal was to pull together as many strategies, activities and techniques as possible that teachers can use to personalise learning.
Inside the resource you’ll find 80 in total.
Some you’ll know, some will be new, some a reminder.
All are adaptable.
All can be modified so they work for you and your learners.
For me, having a compendium of techniques on hand and readily accessible has always made differentiation easier.
And meant adapting my teaching was simpler, and more achievable.
The resource is FREE to download and FREE to use.
It is published by Gershon Learning Limited under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Creative Commons license.
That means you can download it, freely share it and redistribute it with attribution and a link to this site, but you cannot use it for commercial purposes or create any derivatives of it.
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What’s Inside?
Here’s a sneak peak of some of the strategies, activities and techniques waiting for you inside The Differentiation Deviser:
- 🌈 Simple Language
- 🌈 Keyword Discussion
- 🌈 Exemplify
- 🌈 Confidence Indicators
- 🌈 Expert Corner
- 🌈 Model Answers
- 🌈 Open Activities
- 🌈 Stepped Activities
- 🌈 Pace Yourself
- 🌈 Buzz Groups
- 🌈 Question Range
- 🌈 Open and Closed
- 🌈 Learners Ask Questions
- 🌈 Structure Guidelines
- 🌈 Planning Pro-Forma
Using the Differentiation Deviser in Your Planning
The Differentiation Deviser is non-directive and curriculum agnostic.
You can use the strategies and techniques inside any way you like.
Here are three ideas to get you started.
✅ Use The Differentiation Deviser as a prescribing tool when learners are struggling to access the learning.
Identify what is causing difficulties for your learners and then scroll through the resource to find a strategy you can ‘prescribe’ to help with the problem.
Use this strategy in your next lesson and see if it works.
✅ Focus in on a handful of strategies that resonate with you and look to make these a regular feature of your lessons.
There are lots of ways we can differentiate, but we don’t need to differentiate by doing everything.
Sometimes, the best option is to slim your focus and become adept at a subset of strategies that you know will have an impact for your learners.
✅ Use the toolkit as a way to modify your lessons.
Identify strategies that you feel are most relevant for your learners and weave these into existing lesson plans.
This might mean tweaking your slides, or simply making a note for yourself of when and where particular strategies are likely to be most useful.
P.S. You can access all my resources in one place on the free resources hub page.
P.P.S. For dozens of guides, strategies, ideas and techniques, check out my free Differentiation and Adaptive Teaching Knowledge Base.
