Course: Differentiation for Learning

How your students feel about the activities they engage in is important. As mentioned in the previous step your task is to put together a questionnaire to find out how …

How your students feel about the activities they engage in is important. As we are approaching the end of the course, Dylan introduces your next task which is to use …

In this video we meet the teachers from Filton Avenue Primary School and Orchard School Bristol for the final time in the course. You have already met many of the …

In this video Dylan introduces the final week of the course during which you will: Review in detail recordings of our teachers sharing their top tips for anyone wanting to …

Chris draws the week to a close and encourages you to try out with your students some of the approaches you have encountered. As Chris states the most important aspect …

On Friday 3 February, from 17:00 UK time (GMT), Chris and Dylan will be responding to some of your questions in an online session. The session will be facilitated by …

A key tool for learners that has the potential to increase their engagement, motivation and ownership of their learning is choice. In this video, Andrea discusses one approach that can …

Kate discusses her use of different approaches she implemented to scaffold the learning for her students. In this video we observe with her Year 11 class (15-16 year olds) : …

Here we observe Jane B, Gemma and Tom using and discussing different approaches they implemented in their classrooms to scaffold the learning for their children. They also talk about how …

Andrea discusses the range of approaches we will see our teachers using in the following steps to scaffold the learning. Step 4.4 shows some of our primary teachers using a …

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 …

In their 2004 book Classroom Instruction That Works: Research-based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement, Marzano et al. review research into a range of different strategies that teachers can use to …

In this video, Chris highlights an underlying principle around the effective use of scaffolds: that they are employed to support students in structuring their thinking to make meaning, build understanding …

Throughout the course we will look at some of the research which underpins ideas about differentiation, but first we would like you to think about your current view of differentiation: …

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 …