GETTING TO KNOW YOUR STUDENTS West Virginia Differentiated Instruction Cadre

Getting to Know Students Differentiation is based on knowing your students. Readiness Interest Learning Profile

Getting to Know Students READINESS Pretest Give them the benefit of the doubt. Contribute to making sure they get ahead even if they start behind.

Getting to Know Students INTEREST Learners are motivated. Learners develop a positive attitude about learning and their creative potential. Teachers can use to make connections.

Getting to Know Students LEARNING PROFILE Learning Modality –Visual –Auditory –Tactile/Kinesthetic Sternberg’s Intelligences –Analytical –Creative –Practical

Getting to Know Students LEARNING PROFILE Gardener’s Multiple Intelligences –Verbal Linguistic –Logical Mathematical –Visual Spatial –Musical Rhythmic –Bodily Kinestethic –Naturalist –Intrapersonal Introspective –Interpersonal Social

Getting to Know Students LEARNING PROFILE Jungian Topology –Introvert or Extrovert –Sensing or Intuitive –Thinking or Feeling –Judging or Perceiving Left Brain/Right Brain Environmental Factors

Getting to Know Students LEARNING PROFILE Gregorc Style Delineator –Concrete Sequential –Concrete Random –Abstract Sequential –Abstract Random

Getting to Know Students All learners need your energy, your heart, and your mind because they are human, but how they need you differs. Unless we understand and respond to those differences we fail many learners.