Connecting Differentiation with Intervention

  Connecting Differentiation with Intervention

This discussion allows for a chance to refine your understanding of intervention. You will now reconsider the concept of intervention with differentiation in mind. The term differentiated instruction is used frequently in educational contexts and is often times misused. Differentiation is about customizing learning, experiences, or outcomes for a more individualized experience and to respond to the needs of the learner. This discussion also highlights another layer of the Week Six Final Project by utilizing your learner from the previous weeks, Kevin (Scenario A) or Jane (Scenario B), and exploring how your intervention plan supports differentiation.

Prepare

• Watch the video Using Differentiated Instruction to Support All Learners (Links to an external site.) (4:04) and note how differentiation connects with what you know about intervention.
• Read the Differentiation Is-Is Not (Links to an external site.) infographic and use the information there to help create your own definition of differentiation.

Write (Post an initial response by Day 3)

Using both sources, provide an initial discussion response addressing the following points:

• Create your own working definition of intervention. This definition will support what you design for the Week Six Final Project.
• Give an example of differentiation that you have seen or that you are interested in trying.
• Reflect on how differentiation connects with what you have learned so far about intervention. Describe the connection. Use examples from your experience.
• Go back to the scenario you selected in Week Two, Kevin or Jane. Describe how you plan to differentiate instruction for the learner you selected. You will see this new consideration again in the Student-Centered Intervention Plan Template during Week Six when you identify an original learner to build an original intervention plan for.