BRITTANY’S TAKE AWAY

DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION  Is for all students  Make sure to let parents know how the classroom may be run  Allow for time to interact in groups and individualized  I believe that DI can be individualized as well  Keeping students interested and engaged with different methods of learning similar topics

CON’T  Implementing more Nonlinguistic Representations in my class  Allowing students to be involved in feedback process

 DI is for all students. Some people believe that it labels kids and parents do not want their child performing in it.  I have had to talk with a parent about what this really was. Her child needed DI and she did not understand why. Once she realized that it was helping her child she was for it.  It is important to let parents know about a teachers way of teaching students.

 I believe that it is important for cooperative groups and individualized groups.  Teaching first grade I thought groups would be fun and engaging.  I have had a hard time with my students getting along in groups. It has been a surprise for me at such a small age. They have even been with different people and still not got along. So groups is hard to do in my room. I am still trying to do them it is just more of a challenge.

 I do a lot of interactive things with centers and some of the centers are grouped during reading time.  I also have individualized centers that work well.  I have used think pair share and it has worked really well in my class

NONLINGUISTIC MODELS  A model I would like to use more is a graphic organizer. It is really important for students to be familiar with them and I do not feel that I use them enough. We are starting to get into more subjects that I can use them in. A couple are cause and effect, and fact/opinion.

FEEDBACK PROCESS  I try to give feedback on most all student papers but I do not do it in a quick enough manner.  I am going to try to work on meeting with students on a one-to one basis more often.  I am hoping that this will help them to give me feedback on how they think they may need to improve in. What would they like to improve more in?

CONCLUSION  In conclusion DI is a very hot topic for all educators and whether or not some believe it is good or not all students should be given the opportunity to try new learning strategies.