Entry #10 - educational blogs

I spent some time reading through these blogs and enjoyed just about all of them. Some of them lost me with techie lingo, but others got to the heart of teaching. I especially liked an article on differentiated learning.
http://www.edutopia.org/differentiated-instruction-student-success

So many times we forget about the quiet non-disruptive students and don't give them the attention they need and deserve; just because they are not causing any problems for us doesn't mean they are learning. There are many different ways to meet students needs, and we should remember that we certainly should not treat every student the same when it comes to their learning. That's where differentiated instruction comes in. While it may be time-consuming and difficult, we are there to teach every student in our class and meet them where they are. I liked the idea of "do-overs" mainly because I am still working on allowing students a chance to redeem themselves, relearn an idea or concept, and change their results. Some teachers tend to give extra credit to students who are doing poorly in their class, but that does not always meet the learning objectives. Allowing students to do several drafts of a paper, test or quiz corrections, or allowing them to redo math problems once we reteach a concept will achieve the learning objectives that we set out to accomplish in the first place.