Technology in the Classroom

 Hello everyone! Today we are talking about designing a differentiated lesson plan. Bellow are three main areas of your lesson plan where differentiation can play a big part in helping your students succeed.  1: Instructional Strategies When designing your lesson plan, it is important to design instruction that will help meet the needs of all your students. Main provides four things to think about when choosing how to differentiate with your instructional strategies (Main, 2022):     1. Content: The first thing to look at is the content you are teaching. Main recommends considering Blooms Taxonomy by creating activities that touch multiple levels of thinking skills.      2. Process: Next, look at how your students are going to learn. As we talked about in earlier posts, everyone learns different. Because of this, it is important to incorporate many different learning styles in your lessons.     3. Product: This is how your students are going ...

 Data... get it... look at... use it.     In education, data is at the center of everything. Data guides and directs our choices as teachers on what, when, and how to teach our students. Keep reading to see how I use data on student learning styles to inform my teaching choices! Here are some sample graphs of data collected from learning inventories: Interconnection between learning styles and development of students Learning styles is a term used by educators that is often a combination of instructional preferences and and cognitive style (Sadler-Smith, 2001). With this information, it makes sense that learning preferences/styles would have a connection with student development in not only academics, but social, communication, and more.  All students in the group observed have an IEP and receive special education services in a combination of academics, gross and fine motor, speech and communication, and daily living skills. All of these students chose hands-on activ...