Week 9 Weekly Investment!

This week weekly investment was centered around differentiated learning.  Differentiated learning can be broken up into three parts:

1. Readiness is the starting point for learning.
2. Interest is connecting the new information to students by making it relevant to their own experiences.
3. Learning preferences- are the ways that students can learn and they can increase learning by connecting existing knowledge in they like.

It's important to use these parts of differentiated learning so we can increase the likelihood of learning in our students. If we lack one these parts, then we aren't maximizing our student's capability of learning.

We can utilize individualized teaching techniques in numerous ways. From the readings,  I learned that students have different levels of learning. What works for one student may not work for another. When using individualized teaching techniques, teachers can match the needs of students with techniques that best meet those needs.

A thought I had was "how is it possible to meet all of the students' needs if you are the only teacher." As I read, I found out that individualized teaching techniques also promote independence for the students. By practicing the techniques students realize that they can't always wait for the teacher. Students should be able to pull information from other resources available to help them when a teacher isn't around.