Differentiating+Instruction

**The Journey to Diffentiating Instruction**
The ASCD Conference. This conference had four different foci in relation to approaches to enhancing teaching and learning. These were:
 * Differentiated Instruction (a systematic approach to ensuring that every student is learning regardless of interests, learning profiles or readiness for school) Key presenter: Carol Ann Tomlinson
 * Understanding by Design (a framework to design new curriculum based on achieving student understanding of content) Key Presenters: Grant Wiggins and Jaye McTighe
 * What Works in Schools (a research based approach to focusing the school (or bigger) on the school, teacher and student level factors that influence achievement) Key presenter: Robert Marzano
 * Curriculum Mapping ( a way to document and analyse what exactly is being taught and when) Key presenter: Heidi Hayes Jacobs

I made my focus very much on Differentiated Instruction. Carol Tomlinson makes a strong point that Differentiation is NOT the "Individualised Instruction" for every single student. What it is is meaningful learning for every student.