Blog #7: Differentiation Strategies

I can picture myself using a lot of the strategies presented in class but the one I would try first is Learning Menus. I loved the examples the group showed us in class and I think the kids would have so much fun with them. It seems like a very simple way to differentiate the assignments. It would be a very good strategy to use for Social Studies. For example, if I was teaching about World War 2, I could come up with a variety of assignments, some that all of the class would do, and some that they could pick two or three from a list. If I wanted my students to learn about the holocaust, I could have one of my choices be to learn about Ann Frank write a letter to her comparing her life with theirs. Another choice might be to learn about a holocaust survivor and do a project about that. All students would be learning about the holocaust but they would be approaching the topic differently and learning about different aspects of it. In the end, each student could present their projects, so they would be teaching the other students about the parts they had learned. Students would be able to choose projects that helped them learn best whether through writing, drawing, putting on a play, etc.