Differentiated Instruction

Differentiated Instruction 

Differentiated instruction is the different ways a teacher can explain a concept in order to meet students' needs. It asks teachers to know their students well so that they can provide each one with experiences and tasks that will improve their learning. Teachers often tend to teach using the same methods they themselves experienced as a student. However, this leaves many student clueless about many subjects. This is why in the past few years differentiated instruction has been more present in school. Although this way of teaching is great for students, as it allows everyone to understand the different concepts in class, teachers are often faced with the struggle of missing content that must be taught because of the lack of time after explaining the same principle many times but in different ways. 



In my opinion this is the best way a class can be taught. I believe we are all different and learn in different ways. This doesn't mean one student might be smarter than the other, it simply means that one might learn in a completely different way. In my past three years of high school I've seen different ways of teaching and different ways of learning between students and this has helped me understand more about this concept. So far in my involvement in the resource room, I have seen the improvement of some of the students when the teacher explains a theme in various different ways from how they first explained it. Ms. De Souza uses different approaches like exit cards, for corners and mostly co-constructive criteria, where the student and the teacher fill in the gaps one an another. 

In conclusion, differentiated instruction is the best way to teach a class, as it allows everyone to fully understand everything that is being taught and therefore have better results. I have seen the impact this has in students, the positive impact on students and firmly believe that every teacher should at least try to implement this method in their class rooms.