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Teachers constantly evaluate their students’ needs and the immediate learning context so they can adjust curriculum and instruction in order to help all students learn. In this task, you will observe lessons and activities and focus on the ways the teachers differentiate the curriculum and instruction to meet the needs of individual students.
In this task you will select and observe two videos of real-world teaching in which teachers are making efforts to adjust and differentiate instruction and meet student learning needs based upon formative assessment data and learning contexts. You will analyze the teachers’ decisions and evaluate the effectiveness of their efforts to differentiate instruction to meet learners’ needs.
In this task and others in this program, you will use the Gibbs’ Reflective Cycle (Gibbs, 1988) as a framework to respond to observations and experiences. Gibbs\’ Reflective Cycle encourages you to think systematically about the phases of an experience or activity, first describing the experience, then addressing how it made you feel, next evaluating and analyzing it, then drawing a conclusion, and finally considering how this experience will apply to your future practice.
Western Governors University employs a three-step developmental framework to support you through your preclinical and clinical experiences. This framework also helps to ensure you exit the program confident in your ability to meet the needs of your future students and school system. This assessment falls under step one of the three-step framework. In this task, you will engage in activities that will go toward preclinical of your Early Preclinical Experiences requirements.
A. Identify one video from the formative assessment videos provided in the “Task 1 Video List” in the Supporting Documents section below and watch it in its entirety. Reflect on your observations of the video by doing the following:
Description
1. Describe modifications the teacher made to curriculum, instruction, or assessments based on formative assessment data during the video segment, and include evidence from the video for support.
Feelings
2. Describe how you think specific students felt before and after the adjustments from part A1 were implemented, and include evidence from the video for support.
Evaluation
3. Discuss the effectiveness of specific adjustments from part A1, and include evidence from the video for support.
Analysis
4. Explain why you believe the teacher made the changes or adjustments described in part A1, including how formative assessment data may have influenced those decisions.
Conclusion
5. Discuss how teachers must actively analyze formative assessment data as they teach in order to make modifications to curriculum, instruction, or assessments to improve student learning.
Action
6. Discuss two strategies you learned from the video that you can incorporate into your teaching to help you better meet the needs of all learners.
B. Identify one video from the differentiation videos provided in the “Task 1 Video List” in the Supporting Documents section below and watch it in its entirety. Reflect on your observation of the video by doing the following:
Description
1. Describe how the teacher in the chosen video differentiated instruction based on individual learning needs or learning contexts, and include evidence from the video for support.
Feelings
2. Describe how you think specific students felt before and after the differentiated instruction from part B1 was implemented, and include evidence from the video for support.
Evaluation
3. Discuss the effectiveness of differentiation from part B1, and include evidence from the video for support.
Analysis
4. Explain why you believe the teacher differentiated instruction in the manner described in part B1, including how individual learning needs or learning contexts may have influenced those decisions.
Conclusion
5. Discuss how teachers must actively analyze information about students and the learning environment as they teach and how they should make adjustments to improve student learning.
Action
6. Discuss two strategies you learned from the video that you can incorporate into your teaching to help you better meet the needs of all learners.
C. Explain how teachers use formative assessment and differentiation together to facilitate mastery for all students, and include evidence from the videos you watched in parts A and B to support your explanation.
D. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
E. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.