Education 312 Post #3

Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design can be integrated in many ways for effective teaching. Differentiated instruction involves processing construction and developing new teaching materials and ideas. A teacher can use different methods to help all the students within the classroom learn effectively. Understanding by Design is a teacher teaching students making sure they understand the topic. An example of this is backward design. I think that when doing this each classroom should have high expectations for all the students and should lay out essential questions at the beginning of the lesson that need to be answered by the end.

Single planning lesson is a lesson plan that a teacher uses when a lesson differs from the unit they are discussing. For example when introducing a new topic after an exam a teacher can use a single planning lesson before the "unit" lesson to introduce the new topic. Unit and curriculum planning are lessons that are planned over a long time period. Each unit should have certain goals that the students should reach by the end of the lesson. This can be tested by assessments such as test or projects.

What are so different ways I can use differentiated instruction besides the ways mentioned above?

Which do you feel is more effective single planning lesson or Unit and curriculum planning lessons? and Why?