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EDU 673 Entire Course  
EDU 673 Week 1 DQ 1 Key Principles of Effective
Differentiation EDU 673 Week 1 DQ 2 Educational
Neuroscience EDU 673 Week 2 DQ 1 Fluid and Fixed
Mindsets EDU 673 Week 2 DQ 2 Effective
Differentiated Curriculum EDU 673 Week 2
Journal EDU 673 Week 2 Welcome Activity  
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EDU 673 Week 1 Brain Research Supports
Differentiation
a. Analyze how neuroscientific research findings
and recent discoveries regarding how the brain
learns support differentiation in the
classroom. b. Discuss how insights into the
learning process affirm the importance of
differentiation. c. Explain how the research
findings can be translated into specific teaching
strategies used in the classroom.
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EDU 673 Week 1 DQ 1 Key Principles of Effective
Differentiation
Key Principles of Effective Differentiation.
Analyze the five key principles of effective
differentiation and discuss which of the five
will be the most difficult for you to embrace
with a ?fluid or ?growth mindset.? What are the
obstacles you see that will inhibit implementing
the principles in your current or future
educational setting? Which of the five is the
easiest to accept? Why?
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EDU 673 Week 1 DQ 2 Educational Neuroscience
Educational Neuroscience. Educational
neuroscience is an exciting new discipline that
brings together research from psychology,
neuroscience and pedagogy to help educators make
the best curriculum, instructional and assessment
choices for effective learning. Locate an article
in the Online Library that investigates findings
from cognitive and neuroscientific research.
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EDU 673 Week 2 DQ 1 Fluid and Fixed Mindsets
Fluid and Fixed Mindsets. Souza and Tomlinson
(2011) explain, "Mindsets are the assumptions,
expectations, and beliefs that guide our behavior
and our interaction with others"(p. 19). A
teacher's mindset is of utmost importance in the
differentiated classroom. Think about your least
favorite teacher and consider what their mindset
must have been. Share how you felt in the class
and how the teacher's mindset affected your own
well-being and academic success as a student
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EDU 673 Week 2 DQ 2 Effective Differentiated
Curriculum
Is the lesson constructed so students will be
consistently aware of what they should know,
understand, and be able to do? Provide examples
from the lesson to support your answer. If the
lesson plan is not constructed in that manner,
how will you change it to make students
consistently aware of what they should know,
understand and be able to do? Provide examples of
the changes you would make.
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EDU 673 Week 2 Journal
EDU 673 Week 2 Journal
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EDU 673 Week 2 Welcome Activity
Be creative! You can produce a document, you can
create a video, a PowerPoint, a lesson, or you
can come up with your own way to meet the
requirements. Whatever you choose to create,
provide access to your instructor by uploading
all the necessary links or text in a document.
There is not a page or length requirement for
this assignment, as that will limit your
creativity.
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EDU 673 Week 3 Assessment and Differentiation
Make sure to identify the grade level and content
area as well as appropriate learning outcomes or
objectives that are being assessed. There is not
a page or length requirement for this assignment
however be sure to address all elements listed
above, and provide the proper APA citation for
any sources that you use. Include a title page
and reference page(s).
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EDU 673 Week 3 DQ 1 Effective Assessment
Effective Assessment. Provide an example from
your own classroom or from your past educational
experience of effective assessment. What elements
made it effective? Did it lead to improved
teaching and learning? Why or why not? What was
its overall purpose? Next provide an example of
ineffective assessment. What elements made it
ineffective? What were the results of the
assessment? Did it hinder your learning? Lower
you confidence as a learner? Change your
motivation?
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EDU 673 Week 3 DQ 2 Summative Assessment
Summative Assessment. There are two types of
summative assessments, those that assess
rote-knowledge skills and those that assess
higher-level executive functions. Using the
information in your text and from your own
educational experience, develop an argument that
supports the use of both types of summative
assessments. Explain and defend the appropriate
use of each type of assessment.
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EDU 673 Week 3 Journal
EDU 673 Week 3 Journal
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EDU 673 Week 4 Differentiated Instruction for
Student Readiness  
Differentiated Instruction for Student Readiness.
For this assignment you will need a lesson plan
or unit that includes measurable learning
outcomes. You may continue to use the lesson plan
from Week Three, or you can create a new one or
modify one that you have found. Provide and
explain differentiated teaching strategies that
are appropriate for a variety of students at
different levels of readiness.
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EDU 673 Week 4 DQ 1 Student Readiness
Student Readiness. After reading Chapter Five of
the course text, create a checklist of the
nineteen guidelines for differentiating
curriculum in response to student readiness as a
separate document. You can group the guidelines
in whatever way makes the most sense for you. You
are creating the checklist to keep as a tool for
use in your current or future classrooms.
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EDU 673 Week 4 DQ 2 Student Interest
Describe a time when you were working on
something or learning about something and it felt
like time flew by. How will you create that same
experience for students? How will you identify
potential high-interest areas in your subject?
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EDU 673 Week 5 Differentiating for Learning
Profile  
Explain how you will help students develop the
self-awareness needed to distinguish when an
approach is working for them versus when they
should change their approach.Remember to identify
the grade level and content area, as well as the
learning outcomes and all possible levels of
student readiness.
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EDU 673 Week 5 DQ 1 Learning Style Debate
Learning Style Debate. The four aspects of
learning profile are controversial. Highly
respected researchers argue vigorously for the
existence of cognitive styles or intelligence
preferences. Other noted psychologists argue that
the construct of cognitive style or intelligence
preference makes little sense in terms of
learning. In this discussion, we will briefly
debate the validity of both arguments. First,
find your assigned ?Debate Group? below.
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EDU 673 Week 5 DQ 2 Culture and Gender
Culture and Gender. Share with your classmates
how you believe your own culture and gender
influence your teaching and learning. Do you
believe your gender served as an advantage or a
disadvantage in your own academic experience? How
about your culture? Explain how you will account
for the ways in which gender may affect your
students learning. How will you adapt your
teaching so that your classroom will be a good
fit for students from all backgrounds?
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EDU 673 Week 5 Journal
EDU 673 Week 5 Journal
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EDU 673 Week 6 DQ 1 Orderly Flexible Learning
Environments
Provide an example for your classmates. You can
find a video that shows the environment and post
the link, create a case study scenario that
describes the environment, or you can relate an
actual classroom from your own academic
experience that employed the environment. Next,
describe the skills the teacher will need to
learn to change to an orderly-flexible learning
environment. Lastly, reflect on the skills you
will need to develop in order to maintain an
orderly-flexible learning environment.
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EDU 673 Week 6 DQ 2 Personal and Professional
Growth
Personal and Professional Growth. As you reflect
on this course, what assumptions about
differentiated instruction have been confirmed?
Have others been challenged? Which? What steps
will you take to modify your teaching strategies
now or in the future? What specific goals will
you set for becoming a more academically
responsive teacher? What do you believe is the
best piece of advice you can give yourself and
others when it comes to differentiated
instruction?
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EDU 673 Week 6 Final Paper Professional
Development Plan
To create your Final Project you will be
designing your own Professional Development Plan.
You will need to create a step-by-step timeline
that shows your commitment to personal and
professional growth in creating academically and
culturally diverse classrooms.
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EDU 673 Week 6 Journal
EDU 673 Week 6 Journal
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