FIAE Reflections: Chapter 1

This chapter gives a rationale for using differentiation and stresses the fact that it is not a new concept. Differentiation has always been used by the best teachers. Even the military uses differentiation in how it teaches the skills needed to be successful there. Differentiation is fair because it levels the playing field for students based on their learning styles the same way glasses do for vision. Even if the patterns are not continued in later grades or in college, it makes students more successful because the students understand their own learning strengths and are able to supply these for themselves. In addition, the increased understanding of the subject matter helps them with future learning that depends on the prior learning. This chapter really helped me understand more about how differentiation works and how it fits into a workable curriculum.