Skip main navigation

New offer! Get 30% off one whole year of Unlimited learning. Subscribe for just £249.99 £174.99. New subscribers only. T&Cs apply

Find out more

Reflecting on your learning and capturing your professional development

Chris and Dylan close the course.

In this short video Chris and Dylan bid farewell and encourage you to persist in developing your use of assessment in order to differentiate and support all learners.

As Dylan concludes:

None of this is easy to do, and all of it takes practice, resilience, and a growth mindset from us as educators. However, it is worth persevering with.

To support you further, Dylan, Chris, and Andrea’s ‘top picks’ of additional readings are provided to deepen your understanding of Differentiation for Learning.

Reflecting on your professional development

Now that we approach the end of this course we re-visit the self-audit task from the start of the course. The post-course self-audit will help you consider how your practice and thinking about differentiating for learning has changed. You will use the self-audit to inform your next professional development, which we direct you to in the next step.

The statements from the self-audit task are reproduced below:

  • I use formative assessment to design effective differentiating for learning.
  • I believe and tell my class that all students can develop STEM conceptual understanding and skills.
  • I plan for increased levels of cognitive challenge as my lesson progresses to deepen students learning.
  • I plan and use a range of diagnostic activities to elicit evidence of students’ thinking and levels of understanding.
  • I act on the range of evidences elicited from diagnostic activities to move forward all students in their learning.
  • I use a variety of different grouping approaches for my students depending on where they are at in their learning.
  • I employ a range of activities that increase student ownership and motivation.
  • I allow students to choose appropriately challenging activities which enable them to move forward in their learning.
  • I scaffold the learning so that all students can achieve the learning intention.
  • I can explain the importance of mindset for myself and my students.

Task

  1. Access the self-audit task and complete it.
  2. At the end of the survey, click My responses.
  3. Click Download as PDF.
  4. Save the PDF where you will be able to retrieve it to review over the next few steps.
Share any notable observations about how your responses have changed from the start of the course.
This article is from the free online

Differentiation for Learning

Created by
FutureLearn - Learning For Life

Reach your personal and professional goals

Unlock access to hundreds of expert online courses and degrees from top universities and educators to gain accredited qualifications and professional CV-building certificates.

Join over 18 million learners to launch, switch or build upon your career, all at your own pace, across a wide range of topic areas.

Start Learning now