Tag: Differentiation
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Student Trauma, Divorce
The setting: The context of the following scenario that will be discussed is as if it were a real situation. I will first name the incident and describe a broader scope of the situation than what I will share later. I want to be sure to represent that the actions I lay out are not…
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Horace Mann, to today
The following post is really a collection of works, four in total, that represent a historical inquiry of the impact of Horace Mann, followed by an observation of three video segments. They are presented below, beginning with the historical reflection, which could stand alone, but was built in tandem with these other pages, so I…
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Reading Assessment
(This article was written in response to a video that is not publicly available. It stands, alone, as a reflection on differentiation.) Considering the two students, Sofia and Matteo, I’m given to noticing the differences and similarities between them, for how they relate. Sofia is a speaker of English as her native language and…
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Writing Across Disciplines
The impact of teaching with inquiry leads to the creation of mindful and critical thinkers through the habituation of good practices. The following three paragraphs support my thinking on this. Reflecting on the effect of inquiry-based teaching methods in my discipline (teaching the language of English to students of various language abilities through middle and…
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Lesson Plan: Persuasive Writing
Given the challenge of making a statement about something they feel strongly about in a newspaper’s opinion page, students will be able to write arguments that support claims they have, including considered counterclaims and connective reasoning, to the effect that they can create a concluding, logical statement in a complete and formal way. This should…