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Tag: scaffolding
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The Differentiation Deviser – Free Resource
Take a Fresh Look at Differentiation and Adaptive Teaching Viewed and Downloaded 215,000+ Times by Teachers Around the World 🎯 Practical, low-planning techniques for differentiation and adaptive teaching. 🎯 Easily…
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Differentiate for your learners right now with a suite of easy-to-use scaffolding strategies that simplify the process of structuring writing
General Introduction This blog is part of my Differentiation and Adaptive Teaching Knowledge Base. I use the terms differentiation and adaptive teaching synonymously. To me, they are the same, as…
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Over fifteen strategies you can use to speed up your learners’ acquisition of new keywords, making it easier and quicker for them to expand their vocabulary
General Introduction This blog is part of my Differentiation and Adaptive Teaching Knowledge Base. I use the terms differentiation and adaptive teaching synonymously. To me, they are the same, as…
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Subtle changes you can make to how you communicate that can simplify life for your learners and personalise their experience of your lessons
General Introduction This blog is part of my Differentiation and Adaptive Teaching Knowledge Base. I use the terms differentiation and adaptive teaching synonymously. To me, they are the same, as…
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Two simple scaffolding strategies you can use to make life that little bit easier for your learners, differentiating their experience of your lessons
General Introduction This blog is part of my Differentiation and Adaptive Teaching Knowledge Base. I use the terms differentiation and adaptive teaching synonymously. To me, they are the same, as…
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Possibly the most powerful zero-planning differentiation tool any teacher can use, in any lesson they teach, with any learner they’re teaching
General Introduction This blog is part of my Differentiation and Adaptive Teaching Knowledge Base. I use the terms differentiation and adaptive teaching synonymously. To me, they are the same, as…
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Turn model answers into self-scaffolding tools you can train learners to use as part of your in-lesson differentiation
General Introduction This blog is part of my Differentiation and Adaptive Teaching Knowledge Base. I use the terms differentiation and adaptive teaching synonymously. To me, they are the same, as…
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Leverage the knowledge and skills of your learners so they can start differentiating for each other, while you stand back and observe
General Introduction This blog is part of my Differentiation and Adaptive Teaching Knowledge Base. I use the terms differentiation and adaptive teaching synonymously. To me, they are the same, as…
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Use your classroom walls to bring questioning to life for your learners, differentiating learning in the process
General Introduction This blog is part of my Differentiation and Adaptive Teaching Knowledge Base. I use the terms differentiation and adaptive teaching synonymously. To me, they are the same, as…
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Instantly change the dynamic of your lesson planning by starting with the end product and using Bloom’s Taxonomy to scaffold learners up to where you want them to be
Starting with the End Product It can be useful to think about what products we want learners to create, and to plan from there. This is a method of planning…