Improve your teaching by developing how you provide differentiated learning opportunities for all your students. Learn effective differentiation for learning to enable all students to progress. Every student is different, entering classrooms with varying ideas and understanding. This course will help you improve your understanding and use of differentiating for learning for both primary and secondary education.

You will explore the key principles of effective differentiation for learning, see how teachers use these approaches in their classrooms, and learn how to differentiate for learning by task. Real classroom footage and examples are provided from science and maths lessons.

You will leave the course feeling confident in your ability to respond to evidence of your students’ learning and address their different needs.

Syllabus

Week 1: Supporting all students to develop knowledge, understanding and skills

Week 2: Nurturing a differentiated learning environment to motivate all learners

Week 3: The importance of challenge if learning is to occur

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you'll be able to...

- Describe the key principles of differentiation for learning.

- Evaluate a range of practical ideas that can be used to scaffold students’ learning.

Collect and analyse evidence from students on changes implemented in the classroom in order to critically reflect on own practice in order to prioritise next steps in own development

- Develop a classroom culture that motivates all learners.

- Identify approaches to increase challenge and ownership of learning within their teaching context.