Create a 10-15 slide digital professional development presentation for teachers on effectively differentiating curriculum in their educational setting.
The presentation should consider funds of knowledge, learning styles inventory results, differentiated instruction and assessment strategies, technology within a unit design, and a discussion on how differentiation affects student learning.
Each area of focus should include current research (within the past five years) supporting the importance of differentiated curriculum.
Include the following in your presentation:
Use the “Designing a Differentiated Lesson Plan” from Topic 4 as an exemplar lesson. Describe how you created developmentally appropriate instruction. Include how you considered individual students strengths, interests, and needs, with at least two examples of differentiated instructional strategies. Explain how those strategies effectively engaged diverse students and enabled each student to advance and accelerate their learning.
Examine the importance of using assessment data to differentiate instruction.
Describe how opportunities are created for students to demonstrate their learning in different ways. Provide examples.
Discuss the effect of a students funds of knowledge on learning and creating differentiated curriculum, including their personal, family, and community experiences and cultural norms.
Explain how teachers can use technology to differentiate instruction, with at least two examples of technological tools/resources teachers can use.
Title slide, reference slide, and presenter notes.
The digital presentation should include graphics that are relevant to the content, visually appealing, and use space appropriately.
Support your presentation with 5-7 scholarly resources.
While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, including an APA formatted reference slide, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
