It is often said that the best leaders are those who serve.
Sometimes educators suffer from the "I already do that" syndrome. In those cases, we feel inadequate if we admit we have a distance to go as learners of our craft.
Differentiation is simply a teacher attending to the learning needs of a particular student or small groups of students, rather than teaching a class as though all individuals in it were basically alike.
Differentiated Instruction is a teaching philosophy based on the premise that teachers should adapt instruction to student differences. Rather than marching students through the curriculum lockstep, teachers should modify their instruction to meet students' varying readiness levels, learning preferences, and interests. Therefore, the teacher proactively plans a variety of ways to 'get it' and express learning.
Differentiation is classroom practice that looks eyeball to eyeball with the reality that kids differ, and the most effective teachers do whatever it takes to hook the whole range of kids on learning.
In differentiated classrooms, teachers begin where students are, not the front of a curriculum guide.
A teacher in a differentiated classroom does not classify herself as someone who ‘already differentiates instruction. ’ Rather that teacher is fully aware that every hour of teaching, every day in the classroom can reveal one more way to make the classroom a better match for its learners.
If I know I'm going crazy, I must not be insane.
Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction.
In some respects I will never die. Because art is immortal. What we leave behind and what we create - the energy that we put out into the world is eternal.
The cynicism doesn't come across in the final; it can be taken as a very sincere plea for someone to not go away.