Course | Differentiation Strategies That Work

Price

The price listed is enrolment for a teacher at AUD 179. Other pricing options are available for this course.

Casual teachers: AUD 69
Group or whole school <50 teachers: AUD 1890
Group or whole school >50 teachers: AUD 2590

For further information, please visit Teacher Professional Development Services website.

Description

No two students are alike in their abilities, interests and learning needs. While it can seem overwhelming to try to meet the learning needs of vastly different students, it is possible to differentiate learning without excessive planning and preparation.

This course explores highly effective strategies teachers can embed into their planning to ensure learning and assessment tasks are differentiated to meet the needs of all students. The focus of this course is helping teachers to develop instructional approaches that can be seamlessly incorporated throughout the whole of the learning process to ensure all students reach their full potential.

Course Content

1. Lesson One: Why Do We Provide Differentiation?
This introductory lesson explores why it is important that teachers provide differentiation, particularly exploring the idea of ‘student variability’ and its impact on both teaching and learning.

2. Lesson Two: What is Differentiation?
This lesson looks briefly at what differentiation is and what it isn’t, drawing on the work of prominent researchers in the field to explore the ‘do’s and don’ts’ of differentiation in the classroom.

3. Lesson Three: How Differentiation is Typically Provided
Lesson Three looks at some common approaches to differentiating teaching and learning in the classroom.

4. Lesson Four: Assumptions Underlying Common Approaches
This lesson explores two assumptions that often underpin teachers’ discourse on differentiation before examining an alternative approach to differentiation which is further explored in following Lessons.

5. Lesson Five: Universal Design for Learning.
Lesson Five unpacks Universal Design for Learning and its use in providing differentiation in the classroom.

6. Lesson Six: Suggested Strategies

Course Information

- Certified for 6 hours of professional learning.
- Available now on demand. This course is self paced and access does not expire.
- Recognised by VIT, TRBSA, TRBWA, TRBNT, QCT and TRBT as addressing APST 1.1, 1.5, 2.1, 2.5, 3.1, 3.3, 3.6, 4.1, 4.2, 5.4

Suitable for: classroom teachers P-12, teacher aides/learning support, casual teachers, specialist teachers, school leaders, tertiary and adult educators, and pre-service teachers