Differentiation Videos

3 Ways to Differentiate Learning Stations

Why teachers teach but kids don’t learn | Ben Richards | TEDxYouth@Haileybury 

The first video I have included is one in which Mary Peterson shows us three ways that she has found useful for differentiating learning stations while working with students in small reading groups. The three ways she suggests include providing students with an open ended activity, providing them with a choice, and providing them with a tiered activity. 

Her examples are,

1. Open ended activity- Speech bubbles (students draw a character from a book they are reading, and write things their character might say in speech bubbles).
2. Choice- Students choose a book from a bin (use choice as a motivator to read).
3. Tiered activity- Students play a memory game (different sets of cards for different leveled learners).

This second video is one that I found very interesting! Here Ben Richards, a math teacher, as well as a movie producer talks about how he has found a way to differentiate for intra-personal learners in the math classroom. He uses puppets to bring a math problem to life, and says, "Now is there anyone here who would like to try and do the math to help dog find out if this will fit in his kennel so dog and cat can solve their problem?" This appeals to children's emotions because they are likely to become emotionally invested in solving the problem, and this accounts for a "real world" application for younger grades. 

References

(2011, September 16). Retrieved February 13, 2017, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3LljMkI2OQ    

 

 

(2015, July 14). Retrieved February 13, 2017, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKo69os94cU 

 

(2011, September 16). Retrieved February 13, 2017, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3LljMkI2OQ

(2015, July 14). Retrieved February 13, 2017, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKo69os94cU

(2011, September 16). Retrieved February 13, 2017, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3LljMkI2OQ

(2015, July 14). Retrieved February 13, 2017, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKo69os94cU

(2011, September 16). Retrieved February 13, 2017, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3LljMkI2OQ

(2015, July 14). Retrieved February 13, 2017, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKo69os94c