Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Differentiating for Learning in STEM Teaching
National STEM Learning Centre
Through this course learners viewed extensive real-life classroom video footage; examined the key principles of effective differentiated learning; focussed on differentiating by task using examples from the STEM subjects; were exposed to a range of practical ideas for how you can best respond to the assessment evidence elicited from your students; explored the links between Differentiating for Learning and Assessment for Learning.
5 weeks, 3 hours per week
Christine Harrison
Chair of the Association for Science Education 2014-2015 and Senior Lecturer in Science Education,
King’s College, London
Dylan Wiliam
Emeritus Professor of Educational Assessment,
UCL Institute of Education (IOE)
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Assess some of the research literature about Differentiating for Learning
- Identify a number of approaches for differentiating by task using examples from the STEM subjects
- Explore the links between Differentiating for Learning and Assessment for Learning
- Engage with some key principles of effective differentiated learning
- Collaborate with peers, educators and mentors to try out activities and share thinking in order to help shift practice
- Evaluate a range of practical ideas that can be used to elicit evidence from students and differentiate for their learning
- Collect and analyse evidence from students on changes implemented in the classroom in order to critically reflect on own practice in order to prioritise next steps in own development
Syllabus
Week 1: Key principles of Differentiating for Learning
- Key Principle Number 1 - Everyone can develop knowledge, understanding and skills
- Key Principle Number 2 - All students need to be challenged in their thinking in order to learn
- Key Principle Number 3 - All learners in the classroom need to be motivated to learn
Week 2: Importance of diagnosing current levels of understanding
- How do Assessment for Learning and Differentiating for Learning link
- Assessing understanding
- Modelled diagnostic activities
Week 3: Differentiating for Learning by Task - Part 1
- Different ways of differentiating the learning
- Enabling students to access the learning
- Differentiating for Learning by Task - pyramids of learning
- Differentiating for Learning by Task - quadrants
Week 4: Differentiating for Learning by Task - Part 2
- Enabling students to access the learning through scaffolding
- Differentiating for Learning by Task - thinking organisers and help desks
- Sharing scaffolding resources
Week 5: Evaluating practice and next steps
- Reflecting on learning
- Linking back to key principles
Issued on 4th March 2017
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