Differentiated Teaching Experience

As I shared in my introduction, my classroom experience has been in the preschool setting. I have used many differentiated teaching and learning activities with them in the past I just never realized it called differentiation teaching and learning until I started this program. I found it extremely important to get to know all of your students, their interest, and learning needs in order to build trust. If the students trust you then they are more willing to take risks in their learning, which will lead to further learning. By knowing student interests and learning styles you can use that information to engage them in the content areas. I did this all the time with my students. I thrived on finding lessons based off the student interests. I would purposefully try to plan lessons or activities that I knew would “blow” their minds and really get them thinking! I would build off my student’s natural curiosity and interests. I found that this created an internal motivation to learn. I always love to see the wheels turning in their minds and the questions/reasoning they come up with about a topic. I feel that using these same strategies in an elementary school would be just as beneficial. Creating many new adventures in learning!