Defining Differentiation_Sharing working practice- SAESC meeting

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Noloyiso Langa, a teacher from Dominican Convent presented on differentiation in the classroom at the South African Extraordinary Schools Coalition meeting on 4 November 2014.

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DIFFERENTIATION

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THE PROCESS BY WHICH DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PUPILS ARE ACCOMMODATED SO THAT ALL STUDENTS HAVE THE BEST POSSIBLE CHANCE OF LEARNING

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CONSIDER LEARNING STYLES

Verbal/Linguistic

– Understand and manipulate words and languages. Very good with verbal communication

Logical/Mathematical

– ability to do things with data: collect, and organize, analyze and interpret, conclude and predict.

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Naturalistic

– someone who recognizes and classifies plants, animals, and minerals including a mastery of taxonomies

Musical Intelligence

– Musical intelligence refers to the ability to understand, create, and interpret musical pitches, timbre, rhythm, and tones and the capability to compose music

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Interpersonal intelligence

– is the ability to interpret and respond to the moods, emotions, motivations, and actions of others.

Intrapersonal intelligence

It is an internalized version of Interpersonal Intelligence.

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Brainstorm

• How can we restructure our lessons and already existing strategies to target specific learners?

– providing specifically struggling learners with a check list before giving it to more capable learners

– Scaffolding not only our checks for understanding but our activities within the lesson.