The week ahead
In this video Dylan discusses the focus of Week 4, which is on planning to support students to scaffold and organise their understanding so that they are all able to …
Course: Differentiation for Learning
Developing independence
Chris discusses how teachers can use assessment to identify students’ starting points and plan to increase the cognitive complexity or cognitive demand of the learning using a quadrant structure. Chris …
Concluding the Week 3 of the course
Dylan pulls the week to a close and talks about what is coming up next week. In this short video Dylan encourages you to: Try out some of the ideas …
Student choice
In this video, Andrea suggests a strategy to increase student ownership, motivation and learning by allowing the students to move forward in their learning from the point they are at. …
Planning for learning not tasks
Consider one of the two assessment examples below. Each has been planned to elicit evidence of students’ learning at a specific point in the teaching sequence. We want you to …
Learning at the heart of Differentiating for Learning
Chris identifies the main categories of Differentiating for Learning which enable each individual student to make progress in their learning by: Task Outcome How we allow appropriate access to the …
The week ahead
Dylan discusses the week ahead where you will explore ideas of how you can build on the evidence elicited about where students are in their learning. You will encounter a …
Reflecting on your learning this week
In this short video Chris draws the week to a close. This week you have looked at: The link between assessment for learning and differentiation for learning The use of …
Supporting resources – Week 5
This week we’ve picked out some resources that can be found on the National STEM Learning Centre website. Sometimes registration is required to access specific files – this is quick …
Using diagnostic tools in the classroom: primary
Here we meet Micaela, Jane B, Gemma & Tom and see them using different diagnostic activities. Although these examples are from primary classrooms it is important to realise that they …
Using diagnostic questions in the classroom: secondary
Here we meet Kate R and Kate F and see them using different diagnostic activities. We see: Kate R using a diagnostic quiz (0:10) with a Year 9 class (13 …
Supporting resources – Week 4
This week we’ve picked out some resources that can be found on the National STEM Learning Centre website. Sometimes registration is required to access specific files – this is quick …
Supporting resources – Week 3
This week we’ve picked out some resources that can be found on the National STEM Learning Centre website. Sometimes registration is required to access specific files – this is quick …
Hinge-point questions
In his blog about The importance of the right questions in teaching, Dylan Wiliam talks about how he used to ask whole class questions: “I would make up a question …
Learning horizons and routes
Differentiation allows students to take different pathways through the learning. Sometimes they may be faced with a steep uphill climb, while on other parts of their learning journey the path …