GETTING TO KNOW YOUR STUDENTS

West Virginia Differentiated Instruction Cadre

Getting to Know Students

Differentiation is based on knowing your

students.

•Readiness•Interest•Learning Profile

Getting to Know Students

READINESS

•Pretest•Give them the benefit of the

doubt.•Contribute to making sure

they get ahead even if they start behind.

Getting to Know Students

INTEREST

•Learners are motivated.•Learners develop a positive

attitude about learning and their creative potential.

•Teachers can use to make connections.

Getting to Know Students

LEARNING PROFILE

• Learning Modality– Visual– Auditory– Tactile/Kinesthetic

• Sternberg’s Intelligences– Analytical– Creative– Practical

Getting to Know Students

LEARNING PROFILE

• Gardener’s Multiple Intelligences– Verbal Linguistic– Logical Mathematical– Visual Spatial– Musical Rhythmic– Bodily Kinestethic– Naturalist– Intrapersonal Introspective– Interpersonal Social

Getting to Know Students

LEARNING PROFILE

• Jungian Topology– Introvert or Extrovert– Sensing or Intuitive– Thinking or Feeling– Judging or Perceiving

• Left Brain/Right Brain• Environmental Factors

Getting to Know Students

LEARNING PROFILE

• Gregorc Style Delineator– Concrete Sequential– Concrete Random– Abstract Sequential– Abstract Random

Getting to Know Students

All learners need your energy, your heart, and your mind because they are human, but how they need

you differs. Unless we understand and

respond to those differences we fail many

learners.