Post for Ben Travers

Blog for Ben Travers
The workshop on differentiated instruction was well presented and much needed. I thoroughly enjoyed and gained some much needed strategies. Jeani Rottle introduced numerous ways to diagnosis students, as well as strategies for instructing students with special needs. I am looking forward to implementing these strategies as soon as C. R. C. T. is complete. I plan on creating a curriculum map with a few strategies and lessons developed with some differentiated instruction.
My first plan of attack would be to create lessons and activities with a wide range of intelligences. The multiple intelligences survey will be completed by each of my students, graphed, and filed in portfolios for easy viewing. I will also make sure each standard taught would have lessons that touch each of these intelligences. I’ve noticed that so much of my instruction is in areas I’m comfortable with (NO MUSIC). I will try harder to incorporate more music and interpersonal intelligences for now on. The use of Bloom’s verb will also become a larger part of my instruction. I see that most of my instruction only covers to level three of Bloom’s Taxonomy. I will incorporate activities that use verbs from higher order levels of thinking. Again, this workshop was extremely beneficial and will enhance my instruction for all students.