Differentiated Instruction
Differentiation is responsible teaching rather than one size fits all teaching. (Tomlinson, 2005)
To put it yet another way, it means that teachers proactively plan varied approaches to what students need to learn, how they will learn it, and/or how they will show what they have learned in order to increase the likelihood that each student will learn as much as he or she can, as efficiently as possible. (Tomlinson, 2003).
Differentiation is a proactively planned, interdependent system marked by: (l) A positive community of learners; (2) Focused high quality curriculum; (3) On-going
assessment; (4) Flexible Instructional Arrangements; (5) Respectful Tasks. For more information see: http://www.differentiationcentral.com/differentiat
Ellen White – Education, page 14 “Our ideas of education take too narrow and too low a range. There is need of a broader scope, a higher aim. True education means more than the pursual of a certain course of study. It means more than a preparation for the life that now is. It has to do with the whole being, and with the whole period of existence possible to man. It is the harmonious development of the physical, the mental, and the spiritual powers. It prepares the student for the joy of service in this world and for the higher joy of wider service in the world to come.” {Ed 13.1}
The source of such an education is brought to view in these words of Holy Writ, pointing to the Infinite One: In Him “are hid all the treasures of wisdom.” Colossians 2:3. “He hath counsel and understanding.” Job 12:13. For more information see: http://www.whiteestate.org/books/Ed/ed.asp
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