Different Learners Different Lessons

Teachers that differentiate in their classroom teach to the learners level. The curriculum while still important is not what the teacher focuses all of her attention on.  The teacher should start teaching where the child is academically, not at the beginning of the curriculum guide.  An easy way to do this is by adding in the interests of the students.  By doing this students are able to make a connecion to what the teacher is teaching, and are more engged through different learning modalities.  It is important that the teacher challenges all students to compete against themselfs and not other studnents in the classroom, by doing this the student has more confidance in what they are learning and doing.  The student is also able to learn quicker.

"Esentially, teachers in differentiated classrooms accept, embrace, and plan for the fact that learners bring many commonalities to school, but that they also bring the essential differences that make them individual." Different Learners Different Lessons by Carol Ann Tomlinson