Reflection on Differentation Instruction 6714

Thought out this course, the first thing that I would like to reflect on is how supportive, cooperative, and willing my group was when it came to helping each other. Within my group we were able to share our technology resources, ideas, and strategies with each other to help implement Differentiation instruction and Universal Design for Learning. Though these two strategies we should all be able to reach the learners who may struggle in our classroom, but also to help the students that are already showing proficiency. I enjoy the luxury of having a group of professions that would help each other when ever need be.

In our differentiation station we were able to share the idea that we found from each week that helped us to understand DI and UDL. These different resources ranged from lesson plans, websites, surveys, research, and our peers thought regarding each. With each of the resources in mind I thought that using the surveys would really help to get the ball rolling. This can be implemented at the beginning of the class which is going to help us teachers decipher how we can to reach the learner. Next, I feel that it will be very important to us the technology to reach the students such as interactive websites and interactive SmartBoards within daily lessons. As we use these in our lessons we will be able to reach each learner more effectively.

Some of the immediate adjustments that I am going to make to my instructional strategies is like I stated above is to use daily integrated technology within my health classroom. The other big change that I feel I need to make is the way that I assess students. I feel that I need to change and allow the students the opportunity for different options of assessment. We know that all students are different and should have options for different assessments. I now see how changing simple things in the classroom will help us to reach the different learning abilities. Using the DI and UDL will help my class become more productive and will provide better opportunity for my students.