As I read the opening pages of our reading, I thought of my children and how extremely different each one of them is. As each new child was born, I realized that what I did with my first didn't work with my second and then what I did with my second didn't work with my third, etc. I have had to learn to adjust the way I parent with each one. Despite this knowledge, I continue to push the "fair" and "equal" issue and too often to my frustration. It has only been the last few years that I have begun to realize that treating my kids all equal is not fair to them. Their needs have to be met individually. I totally "get" differentiation. It is the application of it that worries me. I appreciated the chart on 12-13 with examples of differentiation in the classroom. Being able to see how it looks like in the classroom made it look doable to me.
I loved the quote on page 10 "Learning has to happen in students, not to them." Differentiation enables learning to happen in students.
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- ANGEEZ BLOG
- I am the fifth of seven children born to Larry King Brown and Alice Drue Berrett Brown. I have a twin sister Alicia who takes the sixth spot of seven since I AM six minutes older than she is (I pull that card often). I was born in Anchorage, Alaska, moved to Fort Smith, Arkansas at age 6, moved to Atlanta, Georgia at age 7, moved to Olympia, Washington at age 13, and had a permanent residence there until I went to Ricks College. My parents did spend six years in Africa after I left for college and I was privileged to go there a few times. I graduated from BYU with a degree in Travel and Tourism after serving a full time mission in Cape Town, South Africa. I am now a mother of five wonderful children, who teach me more about myself than any pyschology class ever could. Responsibility seems to bring permanence because I have not moved from Utah since I started a family 14 years ago. I am a senior in the Education program at UVSC. I am struggling to find a balance between school, work, church, homework, five children and soccer. I'm certain I will survive but that certainty doesn't add any more hours into the average day!
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Angela... Carol Tomlinson (our author) actually wrote an article about the very thing you mentioned figuring out with your children! I'll see if I can find it and give you a copy. You're getting this stuff, and it's my job to help you do it and know you can do it. I'll work hard to help you do it!
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