S&D Examples

This is Aitana Gómez, I'm currently studying my master's on Secondary Education Teaching at UV. The purpose of this blog is to report some activities we do at our lesson IDIE. 

This first post will deal with the concepts of scaffolding (step by step until you reach your aim) and differentiation (several types of learners at the classroom, and we have to accomodate the topics to their abilities, giving them similar tasks to reach the same aim). These are two examples:



SCAFFOLDING:

As Halloween is approaching, we search for a text that summarizes the origins of this festivity. We can read it aloud in the classroom and stop when we think it is convenient to ask questions. We should ask questions to a different student than the one who is reading.




DIFFERENTIATION:

Speaking activity: We can prepare a debate diving the classroom in different groups. We can choose three different topics according to their abilities but about a similar topic. For example, we can imagine that we are a group of friends who want to go on a trip this summer. Each group will receive the instructions to prepare the argument, the most advanced students will receive less vocabulary or clues than the other students. After they discuss their argument, they will need to present their argument to the class.




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