tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post7267739134522160522..comments2024-03-26T11:07:03.496-04:00Comments on Ed Notes Online: Educational Planning Videos - MUST SEE and HILARIOUSed notes onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15018047869059226777noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-12205269591082891172010-11-28T13:24:04.509-05:002010-11-28T13:24:04.509-05:00To anonymous, the calculus teacher:
Don't get ...To anonymous, the calculus teacher:<br />Don't get me wrong. In my video I criticize the obsession with differentiation, but it is not differentiation itself as a principle that I object to. It is differentiation as an item on a list that must be checked off regardless of need and appropriateness, and the confusion between differentiation of needs and of approaches. All students have the same need- to learn what is being taught, whether it is a skill, a concept or a way of thinking critically. This does not change. What requires differentiation is the strategies used to teach these to students with varying strengths and weaknesses and differing dominant modes of seeing and thinking. It is here that we differentiate as needed. I find that the need decreases if I use multiple approaches in each of my lessons.<br /><br />We have been informed in our school, by no less a one than our quality reviewer, that differentiation means teaching different things to different students. An actual example used, believe it or not, in our school, a school for gifted students, was that the goal for some of our students should be, and I quote, "Student should have a pencil three out of five times." <br /><br />In summary, I am not opposed to differentiation. I am opposed to stupid, meaningless, counterproductive and distracting differentiation as dogma.<br /><br />Al Catasus<br />IS 187 KAl Catasushttp://aah187.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-85023961256107646672010-11-28T11:39:10.836-05:002010-11-28T11:39:10.836-05:00The only "differentiation" I'd ever ...The only "differentiation" I'd ever do would be if I were to teach calculus lessons involving the finding of derivatives!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com