Content Differentiation

Differentiation in my classroom was not really a thing with the level of content given when I was in school. I am not sure if that is because I was in the gifted program or just because my school did not provide different levels of material within each class. There were however a lot of different types of multimodal differentiation in my classes. In high school we had big econ projects that covered areas such as social studies, math, and ELA. Classes would also switch up the learning by providing different types such as through videos, interactive animations, reading, coloring, writing and so on. That was the biggest thing Dr. Royce asked Ms. Maronpot to work on her classroom. She wanted Ms. Maronpot to work on involving the kids more and having them come up to the board and interact with the material. Lecturing can help some students but hands on and being involved in the learning is vital to others. In my classroom, I would want differentiation to be well-rounded and involve all aspects of it. I would want to provide different levels of the material to help include all students, even the ones that are struggling to learn the material. Then, especially since I want to be a science teacher, I want to provide a lot of different types of hands on learning and self-discovery through labs and projects.

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