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In other educational news, this Monday we learned the true meaning of V.I.A.G.R.A (Varied Instruction Across Groups Raising Achievement) when it comes differentiated instruction curtsy of one of our professors. After learning more about differentiated instruction, we created a think-tac-toe with the group we worked with last week. As it almost always goes, we discovered that its much harder to differentiate than we originally thought. The pattern seems to be that creating an activity that works for different levels of students is much more difficult because of how time consuming it truly is. Social Studies that day brought about a nagging feeling of not doing enough to help the world, we talked about what our students are going through at home and how that truly affects them in school. After looking at this website http://www.childrensdefense.org/child-research-data-publications/moments-in-america-for-children.html we came to the realization that our kids are going through so much at home and most times are trying to survive. After talking through a lot of hard issues and subjects, we created our wild sides with the website http://www.buildyourwildself.com/. It was a fun way to end class as well as get a resource to use in our classrooms for the beginning of the year activity.
And thats all for this week,
Ms. Brookes