EDP 340 - Differentiated Instruction

3 credit(s)
This course is designed to provide teachers with instructional competencies proven to increase student achievement. It aims to provide teacher candidates with the skills required to support, supplement, and deliver differentiated content and assessment to meet the needs of all students in their classroom. It familiarizes candidates with guiding principles and practical procedures of universally designed learning (UDL) and helps them understand the need to implement UDL. This course provides candidates with an understanding of differentiated instruction (content, process, and product). This knowledge allows teacher candidates to learn about the varied needs of students and determine the best strategies to differentiate by learning style, language proficiency, special needs, cultural influences, gender, and brain development. In addition, this course aims to teach candidates how to develop differentiated assessments that allow students to demonstrate their level of mastery in several ways. This course teaches candidates how to plan differentiated activities that meet the needs of students at all levels of mastery (i.e. introductory, guided practice, immediate mastery, mastery, and application mastery). It includes strategies for closing the achievement gap and building a sense of efficacy among a diverse group of students.

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