Differentiation for Learning

Week 1: Key principles of differentiating for learning Week 2: Importance of diagnosing current levels of understanding Weeks 3 and 4: Differentiating for learning by task Week 5: Evaluating practice and next steps Differentiation for Learning builds upon formative assessment concepts introduced in: Most FutureLearn courses run multiple times. Every run of a course has a set start date but you can join it and work through it after it starts. Find out more This course is for teachers, curriculum leaders, teaching assistants, newly qualified teachers, trainee teachers and others involved in teaching Science, Engineering, Technology, Computing or Maths. It’s suitable for educators working at primary, secondary or further education (ages 5-19 years). Teachers of other disciplines will find the course useful to extend their thinking about how to support all learners they teach. You can use the hashtag #FLSTEMDifferentiation to talk about this course on social media.

• Everyone can develop knowledge, understanding and skills
• All students need to be challenged in their thinking in order to learn
• All learners in the classroom need to be motivated to learn
• How does assessment for learning and differentiating for learning link
• Assessing understanding
• Modelled diagnostic activities
• Different ways of differentiating the learning
• Enabling students to access the learning
• Differentiating for learning by task - pyramids of learning
• Differentiating for learning by task - quadrants
• Enabling students to access the learning through scaffolding
• Differentiating for learning by task - thinking organisers and help desks
• Reflecting on learning
• Linking back to key principles