Different for Everyone

After several hours of researching and preparing, a teacher candidate provides his AT with his first draft of a lesson plan for feedback. The associate teacher suggests that the teacher candidate consider differentiating the product and provides the TC with a ministry resource. The TC walks away from their meeting upset because he believes she needs to do something different for everyone in the class.

By engaging in the analysis of this Ted-Viv vignette, teacher candidates will:

• Apply concepts of differentiating instruction to a practical setting

• Distinguish between practices that do support and do not support differentiated instruction

Differentiated instruction, Student needs, Instructional strategies, Lesson planning, engagement, communication, inclusion and equity, diversity, misconceptions, knowledge gathering.

• The Ontario Curriculum

• Use of Educational Research and Data Analysis

• Theories of Learning and Teaching and Differentiated Instruction

• Pedagogy, Assessment and Evaluation for Specific Curriculum Areas

• Practicum

Please access the vignette transcript document here: TEd-ViV Case 13_ Different for Everyone Transcript pdf