Workshop Title
Differentiated Instruction and AssessmentWhen
Europe/Berlin
Where
Berlin city, (exact venue to be advised)
Event Tag
The focus of this interactive workshop is to enhance understanding and application about differentiate instruction principles in developing learning environments for early years settings.
This workshop will be based on providing choices of key competencies and outcomes that need to be developed within the school setting. Administration and staff are encouraged to submit additional information and/or outcomes to effectively degage adult participants. Strategies used in this workshop will emulate a differentiated instruction process, through the use of discussions, hands-on and reflective activities, and engaging in appropriate choices.
Objectives
Participants will identify and discuss:
- Core components of differentiated instruction and learning;
- The role of the teacher and child in a differentiated instruction setting;
- Documentation children’s learning, skills, and interests;
- Planning techniques to implement a differentiated learning environment; and
- Organizing learning environments that support children’s emergent learning through active participation.
Outline
Day 1: Overview of Differentiated Instruction
- The key components of differentiated instruction and learning – content, process, products, affects, and environments
- The role of the teacher in a differentiated instruction setting:
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- Identification of learning to be achieved
- Identification of children’s skills, abilities, and interests
- Identification of how to structure learning to maximize success
- Identification of engaging children in active participation
- The role of the child in a differentiated instruction setting:
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- Identification what is known
- Identification of what is still needs to be learned
- Identification of how to best achieve achieve learning
- Planning techniques to implement differentiated learning to maximize individual learning:
- Providing opportunities for children to engage in active learning
- Providing opportunity for learning to be practiced, applied, transferred, and extend
- Provide opportunities to engage a broad range of learners in tasks of varying difficulty, suitable for a variety of background experiences, and focusing on children’s interests and abilities
- Engage children in individual and or group activities
- Planning and organizing the learning environment to maximize learning
- Materials to meet variety of skills and concepts
- Organizing the learning environments in a variety of formats – visual, auditory, reflective, concrete, realistic, developmentally and culturally appropriate
Day 2: Documentation and Assessment
- Documentation and assessment strategies of children’s readiness to learn
- Structuring learning sequences to identify varying skill and ability levels
- Collecting information about children’s skills and abilities
- Providing children with opportunities to self-report on skills and abilities
- Observation and documentation
- Developing a learning profile
- Developing formative assessment tools
- Collections of children’s works
- Rubric documentation
- Self-evaluation tools
- Learning journals, learning logs, portfolios
- Documentation panels
- Developing summative assessment strategies
- Analyzing and summarizing formative information collected
- Reporting to children and families
Trainer’s Profile
Dr. Crowther has experience in teaching in the early years – early childhood settings, elementary schools, universities, and colleges. She has presented at numerous childcare conferences both nationally and internationally.
Dr. Crowther has worked in a number of environments that encourage an active, individualized approach to learning. She has published articles in a variety of journals and has completed eleven textbooks in the early years, and a number of children’s books that include photographs of children in a variety of international learning settings.
Methodology
Strategies used in this workshop will emulate a differentiated instruction process.
Target Audience
This workshop is designed for all teachers and other adults who work in early years settings – early childhood and early primary grades.
Investment
Early Bird: EUR650.00/person if register by 1 Mar 20
Individual: EUR700.00/person
Group of 5 or more: EUR600.00/person
Other Details
Duration: 2 days, 12 hours
Closing Date: 1 Apr 2020
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