GETTING TO KNOW YOUR STUDENTS

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GETTING TO KNOW YOUR STUDENTS

• West Virginia
• Differentiated Instruction Cadre

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Differentiation is based on knowing your students.

• Readiness
• Interest
• Learning Profile

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READINESS

• Pretest
• Give them the benefit of the doubt.
• Contribute to making sure they get ahead even if
  they start behind.

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INTEREST

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

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LEARNING PROFILE

• Learning Modality
• Visual
• Auditory
• Tactile/Kinesthetic
• Sternbergs Intelligences
• Analytical
• Creative
• Practical

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LEARNING PROFILE

• Gardeners Multiple Intelligences
• Verbal Linguistic
• Logical Mathematical
• Visual Spatial
• Musical Rhythmic
• Bodily Kinestethic
• Naturalist
• Intrapersonal Introspective
• Interpersonal Social

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LEARNING PROFILE

• Jungian Topology
• Introvert or Extrovert
• Sensing or Intuitive
• Thinking or Feeling
• Judging or Perceiving
• Left Brain/Right Brain
• Environmental Factors

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LEARNING PROFILE

• Gregorc Style Delineator
• Concrete Sequential
• Concrete Random
• Abstract Sequential
• Abstract Random

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• 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.