Describe at least four significant ways in which differentiated instruction differs from traditional classroom instruction.
What will be an ideal response?
First, there is a variety of instructional approaches, not just one or two (like a large majority of teachers do). Secondly, alter the assignments to meet the needs of the students. For example, some would rather write than give a speech. Others would rather take a written test rather than draw. My third significant point that makes differentiated instruction much more different than traditional classroom instruction is because teachers can and are encouraged to assess students on an ongoing basis in order to determine their readiness level and prevent the single big assessment at the end of the unit. Lastly, teacher provide and variety of option for how students can learn and demonstrate their knowledge and strive to make all lessons engaging and meaningful.Â
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An elementary school decides to experiment with two different curriculum approaches to language arts. The first focuses on a whole language approach, and the second focuses on word-attack skills, such as phonics. If the schools’ results are consistent with patterns identified by research, which of the following is the most likely outcome?
A. The effectiveness of either approach depends on the knowledge and skills of the teacher implementing the program; one is not necessarily better than the other. B. The approach emphasizing phonics will result in more student learning than will the approach emphasizing whole language in all the elementary grades. C. The approach emphasizing phonics will result in more student learning in the lower elementary grades, but the approach emphasizing whole language will result in more learning in the upper elementary grades. D. The whole-language approach will result in more student learning than will the approach emphasizing phonics in all the elementary grades.
There are a number of important things to consider when preparing, selecting, or using an assessment procedure or test. Three such considerations are listed here. Which one does not specify a correct consideration?
A. Accuracy of IRI results depends on careful selection of passages by the test developer; for example, if the "third-grade" passage is actually much easier or more difficult than typical third-grade material, the instrument may incorrectly suggest student reading levels. B. While a cloze test may produce generally useful results with most students, it may not be used with any accuracy with students reading below first reader level; thus, for those who are reading at approximately preprimer or primer levels, teacher should select a maze test instead. C. Some computer-administered tests lack content and technical adequacy, but other more recent versions attend better to issues of representative norming samples, the need for low standard errors of measurement (i.e., high reliability), and other faults seen in a number of computerized renditions. D. Certain student behaviors while reading orally are marked by the teacher on his/her copy of the test passage, but are not considered negatively when scoring the performance; for example, repetitions of a word may simply mean that the student is giving himself or herself time to work out the word.
Instructors have office hours but really do not expect students to show up during those times
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Piaget's third stage of cognitive development is concrete operations.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)