Characteristics of a Differentiated Learning Environment

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Characteristics of a Differentiated Learning
Environment
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Remember to Teach Whole Children

• Understand children have intellect, emotions, and
  changing physical needs
• Self-esteem is important
• We teach children not subjects.

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Help Students Make Their Own Sense of Ideas

• Provide context for learning
• Relate learning to their experiences
• Learning takes place through struggle and
  invention

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Share the Teaching with Students

• Tap into prior knowledge and insights
• Students teach students
• Engage in conversations on rules, schedules, and
  procedures

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Strive for Student Independence

• Provide direction, guidelines, and choice
• Gradual relinquishment of responsibility
• Make yourself increasingly useless in students
  lives

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Appreciate Each Child as an Individual

• Find out who they really are
• What makes them unique in the world?
• Share yourself

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Continue to Develop Your Expertise

• Master applications of insights and skills not
  just facts
• Find meaning in stories of life
• Use understanding at high-quality level

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Link Students and Ideas

• Spark meaningful reflection among students
• Make seemingly remote subjects real and relevant

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Strive for Joyful Learning

• Children are programmed to respond to joy
• Ensure essentials of subjects are joyful
  experiences

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Offer High Expectations- and Lots of Ladders

• Help students dream big
• Know a childs needed scaffolding
• Be a coach

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Use Positive Energy and Humor

• Express treatment of all topics as valuable
• Treat all with respect and kindness
• Make jokes
• View errors as learning experiences

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Covert Discipline

• Strive for a desire for personal growth
• Use shared decision-making
• Use understanding and learning, not conflict
  between adversaries

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Guiding Principles of Constructivism

• Pose problems of emerging relevance
• Structure lessons around big concepts and
  ideas, not facts and skills.
• Look for and value the students points of view.
• Adapt curriculum to challenge students
  suppositions.
• Assess student learning authentically and within
  the context of teaching.

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Artful Teaching

• Teacher
• Students Content