- E-teacher Scholarship
Programadvanced online teaching courses for career
advancement
O Introduction to Pedagogy and Practices for Teaching
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English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL
Methods)
Building Teaching Skills through the Interactive Web
(Web Skills)
Practical Applications in Language and Learning Skills
(PALSS)
Teaching English to Young Learners (TEYL)
Teaching English to Pre-teens and Teens (TEPT)
English for Specific Purposes, Aligning Context with
Practices and Materials (ESP)
Special Education and Differentiated Instruction in EFL
Contexts (SpEd EFL)
Summative and Formative Assessment in Language
Learning and Teaching (Assessment)
Critical Thinking in Language Learning and Teaching
(CT)
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Special education and
Differentiated
Instruction in the ELT
context
Esada Čirić-Delić
Special education/Inclusion
Special educational needs
Special education:
Special education in BiH
Legislation
Practice
Disabilities and conditions
affecting the learning process:
O Physical disability
O Down syndrome
O Hearing impairment
O Autism Spectrum
O Visual impairment
Disorder
O ADD/ADHD
O Behavioral/Emotional
Disorder
O Cognitive Disorder
O Dyslexia
O Disgraphia
Practical advice for teachers:
Learn about
the disability
and decide
on the
strategy
Prepare
individual
education
plan and
change the
layout of the
learning
environment
Apply:
sequence of
activities,
good
classroom
mngmt.,
focus on
strenghts
not
weakness
Strategies in the classroom
Multiple
intelligences
Learning
Styles
Project Based
Learning
Differentiated
Instruction
Scaffolding
Authentic
Assessment
“The fact that students differe may
be inconvenient but it is
inescapable. Adapting to that
diversity is the inevitable price of
productivity, high standards and
fairness to kids.“
(Theodor Sizer, Brown University)
Differentiated Instruction
“...classroom
practices embodying student
learning styles, interest, and prior
knowledge“
(Benjamin, 2002).
THREE KEY COMPONENTS for
differentiating is to assess child‘s:
Readiness
level
Interest
level
Learning
profile/style
Langa&Yost, 2007
Tomlinson identified three components that
should be differentiated (Hall, Strangman &
Meyer, 2003):
1) CONTENT : elements and materials used in
reaching learning goals and in teaching concepts,
principles, and skills;
2) PROCESS :how you will teach the content,
flexible groups or whole-group discussion of
content or small groups or paired groups;
3) PRODUCTS : students allowed choices in
products or final assessments (variety of ways for
expression, degree of difficulty, and types of
evaluation).
What Differentiated Instruction Means
for Teachers
•Get to know
your students
(student’s
level, learning
style &
student’s
interests)
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•Identify areas
of your
curriculum that
could be
adapted to
differentiated
instruction
2.
•Examine your
role as teacher
in the
differentiated
classroom.
3.
TEACHERS
DO
Don‘t
Provide several
learning options
Develope seperate
plans for each
student in the
classroom
Provide appropriate
levels of challenge
for all students
“water down“ the
curriculum for some
students
Differentiated Instruction in
the classroom:
Instructional
Strategies:
• Graphic organizers
• Tiered products
• Journal prompts
• Flexible work
groups
Outcome:
• Graphic display
• Website (if poss.)
• Written report
• Simulations
Examples of differentiating activities
for differentiating content:
Match: vocabulary words to definitions, pictures.
Read: a passage of text, answer: related questions.
Think: a different outcome to the story.
Differentiate: fact from opinion in the story.
Identify: an author’s position, narrator‘s voiceprovide evidence to support a viewpoint.
Create: a PowerPoint presentation summarizing
the lesson.
Examples of differentiating the process:
Provide visual and word learners with
textbooks, assistive texts .
Provide auditory learners with audio books,
tapes.
Provide kinesthetic learners the opportunity
for an interactive assignment online.
Examples of differentiating the end
product:
Write a book report.
Give an oral report.
Create a graphic organizer of the story.
Build a diorama illustrating the story.
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http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/special_ed/disabilities/
http://www.unisdr.org/archive/35293
http://ollibean.com/2013/02/06/karen-clay-defines-inclusion/
http://teaching.uncc.edu/learning-resources/articles-books/best-practice/education-philosophy/seven-principles
http://imgkid.com/howard-gardner-books.shtml
http://infed.org/mobi/howard-gardner-multiple-intelligences-and-education/
http://www.edutopia.org/project-based-learning
http://ocmbocesis.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/commoncoregraphicsfree.jpg
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/258605203573765256/
http://www.dpi.state.nd.us/title1/initiative/diffinstruction.pdf
http://edglossary.org/differentiation/
http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/108011/chapters/Understanding-Differentiation-in-Order-to-Lead@Aiming-for-Fidelity-to-a-Model.aspx
http://education.ky.gov/educational/diff/Documents/StrategiesThatDifferentiateInstruction4.12.pdf
http://www.cisco.com/web/about/citizenship/socioeconomic/docs/Metiri_Classroom_Collaboration_Research.pdf
https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130918161542-1265384-a-case-for-holistic-assessment-ofstudents-and-everyone
http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/toolbox/whatisit.htm
http://www.msdwt.k12.in.us/msd/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/authentic_assessment.pdf
https://www.teachervision.com/teaching-methods-and-management/educationaltesting/4911.html?page=2&detoured=1
http://www.creativelearningcentre.com/downloads/LS%20vs%20MI%20TEX9_p8_9.pdf
THANK YOU
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