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DIFFERENTIATING PERFORMANCE TASK FOR DIVERSE LEARNERS

Who are diverse learners?


Diverse learners include children and students of all abilities from racially,
ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

Diversity in classroom
*get to know your student
*re-evaluate your teaching materials
*be willing to address inequality
*connect the families and community
*meet diverse learning need

DIFFERENT TYPES OF LEARNERS


1. AUDITORY AND MUSICAL LEARNERS
- Auditory Learners like to hear solutions and examples explained to them, and
may gravitate towards music subjects and group learning as way to understand
information.
2. VISUAL AND SPATIAL LEARNERS
- These Learners prefer information presented visually rather than spoken.
3. VERBAL LEARNERS
- Verbal Learners might have a preference for reading and writing, word games
and poems. They know the meanings of a broad category of words, can use
effectively, and actively seek out new words to add their reportoire.
4. LOGICAL AND MATHEMATICAL LEARNERS
- Logical learners look for patterns and trends in what they learn. They search for
the connections, and the reasons and results. These learners greatly appreciate
any type of learning that logically explains the subject at hand.
5. PHYSICAL AND KINESTETIC LEARNERS
- Commonly called “hands-on” learners that emphasizes a type of “ Learning by
Doing’.
6. SOCIAL INTERPERSONAL LEARNERS
- Social Learners show preference towards groups and collaboration
7. SOLITARY AND INTRAPERSONAL LEARNERS
- These learners can be visual, auditory, physical,verbal, or logical learners.
8. NATURE LEARNERS
- Nature learners are learners who do best when interacting with nature.

DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES TO REACH DIVERSE


LEARNERS
Key Vocabulary- educators work with students to help them identify,
recognize, develop, and use new terminology. Consider matching key
vocabulary with one of the other differentiated instruction techniques below
to engage all your students. Create a memory match game to learn and
review key vocabulary terms.
Prior Knowledge Links- This technique taps into students’ prior
experiences and knowledge. Have students interview each other to learn
about their own individual experiences in reference to a certain topic. You
can also address pointed questions to the entire group, such as: Have you
ever visited a forest? What was it like? Did you like it?
Paired and Cooperative Learning- Combine students with varying
learning abilities, interests, language proficiencies, or other skill strengths
into groups of two or more to provide peer support throughout a lesson.
Nonlinguistic Representations- Help students learn using modalities
other than the printed word, such as singing, role-playing, sketching, taking
photographs, etc.
Realia and Hands-on Learning- Provide students with tangible objects to
illustrate what is being discussed, and get students to participate through
the use or creation of materials to engage multiple learning modalities.
Curricular and Personal Connections- Help students make connections
with other content and discipline areas by relating new concepts to
previously learned ones. This can be accomplished using group
questioning, hands-on realia, or a more formal assessment.
Oral, Reading, and Writing Skills- Encourage students to integrate the
three learning modalities of speaking, reading, and writing.
Higher Order Thinking- Challenge students to go beyond comprehension
of basic material by moving them toward more abstract reasoning, such as
making inferences, predictions, and appropriate connections. This can also
be accomplished using group questioning or a more formal assessment.

3 ELEMENTS OF DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION


1. Content- knowledge, understanding and skills (KUD) that students need to learn.
(Tomlinson and Imbeau,2010)
2. Process- how students come to understand and make sense the content
( Tomlinson& Imbeau, 2010)
3. Products- ways for students to demonstrate what they have come to know,
understand, and be able to do after an extended period learning.

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