and immediate commentary for authentic assessment is Socrative. Other tools like VoiceTread, Prezi and blogs are more instructional and may be summative when using a rubric to determine the depth of learning demonstrated without detriment by the platform used to present material. Teachers have to decide if the students’ problems are
engaging lessons to master content. Technology in education is continuing to grow each school year causing state and local school districts to form policies to support the effective and transformational use of technology and its impact in classroom instruction. Screven County is a large rural county that mostly agriculture oriented and is geographically located in southeast Georgia. Population figures from a 2010 census show 14,953 residents of which 26.2% live at or below the poverty level. This
Environments (PLEs) are systems that are devised to encourage learners to take control of and manage their own learning. A Personal Learning Environment (PLE) describes the tools, communities, and services that constitute the individual educational platforms learners use to direct their own learning and pursue educational goals. Differentiation is a way of teaching; it’s not a program or package of worksheets. It asks teachers to know their students well so they can provide each one with experiences
At the heart of the four research questions is the concept of differentiated instruction. This literature review starts with the concepts of differentiated instruction. From there the literature is reviewed for teaching tools that facilitate differentiated instruction. Specifically, the review focuses on tools for teaching advanced chemistry topics and remediation for college-prep chemistry topics. Since the learning of advanced topics and remediation are taking place in the classroom simultaneously
DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION Section A. critical essay 1. A description of the approach Differentiation is a way of teaching; it asks teachers to know their students well enough that they are able to provide each one of them with experiences that will improve their learning development. As Carol Ann Tomlinson has said, differentiation means giving students multiple options for taking in information (1999). At its most rudimentary level, differentiating instruction means that you, as a teacher, observe
Inclusion in the Classroom: Differentiating with Technology Lauren Hagerty California State University, Northridge Inclusion in the classroom: Differentiating with technology President Obama said in his January 2011 State of the Union address, "I want all students to be able to learn from digital textbooks" (State of the Union 2011: President Obama 's Full Speech, 2011). On February 1, 2012, the US Department of Education and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a downloadable "Digital
experiment and design, students gain the tangible benefits that come from frequent analysis and reflection. When it comes down to it, effective instruction for innovative design and deep understanding of technical concepts is all about engagement. It's been found that when students are directed by an expert to follow a pre-established sequence of instructions, it generally does very little to encourage
the factors such as the company resources, market variability, product’s life cycle stage and the competitors’ marketing strategies. As the result of analysis the company decided to focus on doing differentiated marketing, because the company has significant budget and resources, besides differentiated marketing combines the best attributes of undifferentiated marketing and concentrated marketing therefore Hyflux choose it to ensure the long-term growth. On the other hand, the market of filtered
the brainchild of chemistry teachers Bergman and Sams who coined this term in a publication in 2012. Both of these teachers experimented with their teaching style by assigning videos of their classroom lectures for homework and using classroom instruction time to work interactively with students who were either having difficulty understanding the material or had the ability to work ahead. After reporting on their success, others have tried this method in their classrooms. Although the results are
strategies and the student’s capabilities (Groundwater-Smith, et al., 2015b; Nixon & Gould, 2005). In order for students to complete different tasks during lessons, it is important that teachers present clear and concise instructions. According to Porter (2014a), by providing clear instructions and high quality examples, teachers may help to increase a student’s academic performance. In addition, by removing classroom