The Impact of Differentiated Instruction and Assessment

EDU645: Learning & Assessment for the 21st Century (NMD1520C)

Dr. Kimberly Hall

byMary Fenby

How was the teacher able to assess for the ultimate goal of students reading, writing, thinking, and speaking

critically about global topics?

Ms. Vagenas created a Learning Menu. With this learning menu she is able to assess her 7th grade U.S. History students using the Learning Menu by providing the students with several options of differentiated task to choose from.

How does her lesson show she is preparing her students for multiple assessment types?

The Learning Menu is broken down into three parts. First is the appetizer. When the student is done it is checked and graded. From this point they move on to the entrée. She explains “once the demonstrated they understand and master the contact they then quiz out.” Then they can move on to the desert. The desert is the over view,

Mary Vagenas , Youtube

How does student choice play a part of her differentiated instruction?

The students are involved in the

learning process as they are able to

move along at their own pace.

With the different options they can

choose a design that interest them

sparking not only creativity but

critical thinking. With the

completed design they

demonstrate they have mastered

the lesson.

Share one new idea from this lesson and how you could use it or modify it for your own instruction

Pre-Kindergarten Learning to Read

Appetizer Learning to read with “at” words

Entrée Learning reading magic by adding a new letter to the beginning of “at” to make a new word. Then how to put the new words together to make a sentence.

Desert Make a book with the new words and sentences or a reading sheet with traced words, pictures of key words and a sentence they wrote, or cut and past words together to form different sentences.

Reference

Teaching Channel. (2012). Differentiating with learning menus [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/differentiating-instruction-strategy