This assignment requires you to create an illustrative case study documenting your work and insights with applying the principles, processes, and concepts of differentiated instruction to your practice.
There are many complexities involved in designing and implementing differentiated instruction to meet the needs of a diverse group of students.
This case study assignment will help the reviewer see the context of your practice, the decisions you made, and what student factors such as academic, cultural, economic, and developmental which influenced your decision-making.
This interactive case study assignment provides the opportunity for you to connect theory to practice and discuss the process and results.
Remember the interactive case study is about the description of context, decisions, plans, rationales for plans, and results of carrying out the plan.
A minimum of 4 applications to practice examples must be included. This assignment also requires other components like the Teacher Profile and the Class Profile. Course Participants must address all the components of the Case Study Assignment write-up directions. Refer to the case study template provided below. [Be sure to review your work through the lens of the rubric before you submit it.]
Outline for the Case Study Write-Up
Title:
Introduction: What does this case study demonstrate to the reader?
Context:
1. Teacher Profile: In this section, you will provide information about you as the teacher. This profile includes relevant information about a) years of experience, b) insights from the EDSE 8845 profile data, c)learning preferences of the teacher, d) thinking styles of the teacher, e) personality type (from the 16 personalities exploration) and f) background with differentiated instruction before this semester. Other components could include—feelings and views on differentiated instruction and additional relevant information you feel the reviewer needs to understand you as the teacher.
2. Class Profile: In this section, you will provide information about the learners for whom you are providing the differentiation. You will decide how to gather the data and compile it into a comprehensive profile for your group of learners. Templates are attached to this assignment that you can also use to compile this information. A detailed class profile should be completed using what we discuss and learn in our course.
3. System Variables: In this section, discuss any relevant variables related to the system— school, county, content team, grade-level team, department, etc. that impact your teaching situation. An example of a demographics report is attached to show variables in a school system. Your response does not need to cover all of these areas but it gives you some context.
4. SWOT Analysis: You will examine your context and write a summary articulating the strengths, weaknesses, threats, and opportunities as they relate to you providing differentiated instruction. This SWOT analysis can help you make decisions about what you might need to embrace from the course to help you meet the needs of all your learners.
5. Goals: In this section, you should articulate your goals for what you wish to accomplish this semester in differentiated instruction. Be sure to articulate why these goals are chosen. Your goals might help you determine what teacher actions to embrace in your explorations this semester.
6. Discuss the student factors, research, principles of differentiated instruction, assessment data, and other considerations that affected your decision-making process relating to designing the learning environment, planning, and implementation of differentiated instruction best practices.
Teacher Explorations, Application, and Synthesis:
How did you apply the course content to your practice with the identified learners in the classroom profile mentioned earlier in this template? What were the challenges? What were the issues? What did you try? Why? What are the concrete examples of the application to your content? What were the results? What worked well? What didn’t? What did you learn? What are the implications for future practices?
Conclusions:
What have you learned about yourself as a planner and implementer of differentiated instruction?
How has this assignment affected your understanding and skills related to TKES standard 4?
References: Include a list of references to support your findings. These can be course readings, videos, and other academically researched readings from education courses you have completed for the program.
