I hated having to do differentiated instruction when I was in. (Just for a year thank God lol)
Imagine you have 100-110 students, half are on a 504 or IEP (think kids with eg, dyslexia, autism), another quarter are English language learners (so they can't even understand what you say), and the remaining 3rd are normal kids that just want to make it thru the day.
With differentiated instruction I'd have to somehow prep work that accommodated all these different groups. It sucked
I don't think it means quite what you took it as, when you were involved.
Differentiated instruction meant that each student had their own rate of advancement. This ain't that.
Equity is the key word, here. The "difference" is that the kids that understand the lesson are expected to work with their classmates to find a collective solution.
It's a shame in a sense, I'm against the woke stuff so any kids coming up through the school system today need more teachers like that but man. The students aside, I was actually losing sleep over having to teach out of crap like Howard Zinn to 8th graders. That was in the mid-10s and it's no doubt gotten worse
I hated having to do differentiated instruction when I was in. (Just for a year thank God lol)
Imagine you have 100-110 students, half are on a 504 or IEP (think kids with eg, dyslexia, autism), another quarter are English language learners (so they can't even understand what you say), and the remaining 3rd are normal kids that just want to make it thru the day.
With differentiated instruction I'd have to somehow prep work that accommodated all these different groups. It sucked
I don't think it means quite what you took it as, when you were involved.
Differentiated instruction meant that each student had their own rate of advancement. This ain't that.
Equity is the key word, here. The "difference" is that the kids that understand the lesson are expected to work with their classmates to find a collective solution.
Man I'm glad I'm out
Don't blame you
It's a shame in a sense, I'm against the woke stuff so any kids coming up through the school system today need more teachers like that but man. The students aside, I was actually losing sleep over having to teach out of crap like Howard Zinn to 8th graders. That was in the mid-10s and it's no doubt gotten worse