Differentiation for learning

Every student is different, entering classrooms with varying ideas and understanding. This course will help you improve your understanding and use of differentiating for learning for both primary and secondary education.

You will explore the key principles of effective differentiation for learning, see how teachers use these approaches in their classrooms, and learn how to differentiate for learning by task. Real classroom footage and examples are provided from science and maths lessons.

You will leave the course feeling confident in your ability to respond to evidence of your students’ learning and address their different needs.

What will you learn

• Assess some of the research literature about Differentiating for Learning
• Identify a number of approaches for differentiating by task using examples from the STEM subjects
• Explore the links between Differentiating for Learning and Assessment for Learning
• Engage with some key principles of effective differentiated learning
• Collaborate with peers, educators and mentors to try out activities and share thinking in order to help shift practice
• Evaluate a range of practical ideas that can be used to elicit evidence from students and differentiate for their learning
• Collect and analyse evidence from students on changes implemented in the classroom in order to critically reflect on own practice in order to prioritise next steps in own development