FIAE Chapter 1

It is likely that all of our teachers differentiated instruction to us in some way. It's becoming more obvious why it worked because we have discovered more about how the brain works and how people learn in the past twenty years than all civilizations combined. We still are not sure how to apply all of this new knowledge in the classroom however. It's important that we are sure that our students do not become dependent of differentiation, we need to make sure they strive to find what methods work best for themselves, give them autonomy. A student who's instruction is differentiated will still do well on standardized tests. It is important to offer children the tools that they need to be successful. The most important part of differentiation is that we need to have the right attitude about it, it needs to be accepted and embraced.