GETTING TO KNOW
YOUR STUDENTS
West Virginia
Differentiated Instruction Cadre
Differentiation is based
on knowing your
students.
• Readiness
• Interest
• Learning Profile
Getting to Know Students
READINESS
• Pretest
• Give them the benefit of
the doubt.
• Contribute to making sure
they get ahead even if they
start behind.
Getting to Know Students
INTEREST
• Learners are motivated.
• Learners develop a positive
attitude about learning and
their creative potential.
• Teachers can use to make
connections.
Getting to Know Students
LEARNING PROFILE
• Learning Modality
– Visual
– Auditory
– Tactile/Kinesthetic
• Sternberg’s Intelligences
– Analytical
– Creative
– Practical
Getting to Know Students
LEARNING PROFILE
• Gardener’s Multiple Intelligences
– Verbal Linguistic
– Logical Mathematical
– Visual Spatial
– Musical Rhythmic
– Bodily Kinestethic
– Naturalist
– Intrapersonal Introspective
– Interpersonal Social
Getting to Know Students
LEARNING PROFILE
• Jungian Topology
–Introvert or Extrovert
–Sensing or Intuitive
–Thinking or Feeling
–Judging or Perceiving
• Left Brain/Right Brain
• Environmental Factors
Getting to Know Students
LEARNING PROFILE
• Gregorc Style Delineator
–Concrete Sequential
–Concrete Random
–Abstract Sequential
–Abstract Random
Getting to Know Students
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.
Getting to Know Students