1. Wilmington College

2.  Arlington Heights Academy, located in Arlington Heights Ohio, which is in the Lockland School District.  The Lockland School District is a small district with approximately 700 students.  Arlington Heights has approximately Fifty- four students. Twenty students are on an I.E.P.

4.  Differentiated instruction is instruction that focuses on the student’s needs rather than the school’s needs.  What does this mean?  Is differentiated instruction going against “Teaching to the Test”.

5.  Almost every child in our school is there due to issues from their previous school.  Most have been discipline problems in their school and a few have chosen to attend.  Arlington is unique in that our classes have a maximum of fifteen children.

6.  Arlington teachers follow what current research says that children do better in smaller classrooms and often children with learning disabilities need to have differentiated instruction.  Examples of these would be service learning projects that Arlington participates in.

8.  Math ----- Making a scale model of a house. This way students have to use measurements and learn math in a hands on practical way.  English --- Reading a story to the children, using the movie version of a book.  History ---- Having students do powerpoint presentations and also using movies in order to illustrate history.

9.  I have been at Arlington Heights Academy since November, 2009.  I have seen many positive things in this area and I have seen how it can work better for everyone.

10.  King-Sears, Margaret E. (2008). Facts and Fallacies: differentiation and the general education  Curriculum for students with special educational needs. Support for Learning, 23(2),  55-62.  McDermott, Paul A., Goldberg, Michelle M., Watkins, Marley L, Stanley, Jeanne L., Glutting,  Joseph J. (June 2006). Journal of Learning Disabilities. A Nationwide Epidemiologic  Modeling Study of LD: Risk, Protection, and Unintended Impact, 23(3), 230-251.  Smith, Earl Bradford (2009). Approaches to Multicultural Education in Preservice Teacher  Education, Philosophical Frameworks and Models for Teaching. Multicultural  Education. Spring 2009, 45-50.