Strategies for Differentiating for Adult Learners by Catherine Holmes https://padlet.com/catherineholmes/hs66zil9skrb Post a strategy for differentiating for content or skill. Include a description, instructions on how to use it, and applications for use with adult learners. en-us 2019-03-29 02:52:43 UTC 2025-11-16 09:06:31 UTC hello@padlet.com Sunghie Okino https://padlet.com/catherineholmes/hs66zil9skrb/wish/346611452 Strategy Name: Target Different Senses
Description:  A lesson should resonate with more learners if it targets visual, tactile, auditory and kinesthetic senses, instead of only one.
Instructions: Consider appealing to different senses of learners by:
  • Playing videos
  • Using infographics
  • Providing audiobooks
  • Acting out a scene
  • Incorporating charts and illustrations within texts
  • Giving both spoken and written directions to tasks
  • Using relevant physical objects
  • Allotting time to create artistic reflections and interpretations
When to Use: Consider how this strategy can be applied to adult learners; mix up the tendency for "give and get" model.
Link: 
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Instructions:  Survey to ask experience level, technology, confidence, Ability to self-learn
When to use: administer at registration.

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Link:   
 International Journal of Arts and Commerce Vol. 2 No. 10 November, 2013
Strategies for Meeting the Individual Needs and Learning Styles of
Online Learners


]]> 2019-03-29 15:58:24 UTC https://padlet.com/catherineholmes/hs66zil9skrb/wish/346612066 Aileen https://padlet.com/catherineholmes/hs66zil9skrb/wish/346612913 Differentiated instruction
Small group
Group students with similar needs, learning styles, reading levels, etc. so that you can provide strategic instruction.
Students are moved in an out of groups throughout the year.

https://www.teachhub.com/top-ways-implement-differentiated-instruction-strategies

]]> 2019-03-29 16:00:27 UTC https://padlet.com/catherineholmes/hs66zil9skrb/wish/346612913 20 Differentiated Instruction Strategies teresastringer https://padlet.com/catherineholmes/hs66zil9skrb/wish/346613127 2019-03-29 16:01:04 UTC https://padlet.com/catherineholmes/hs66zil9skrb/wish/346613127 Touda Bentatou https://padlet.com/catherineholmes/hs66zil9skrb/wish/346616928 Strategy Name: Flexible Grouping
Description: Allows students to work in groups with similar learning styles, readiness, or interests. 
Instructions: Depending upon the purpose of the lesson, teachers can plan their activities based on a student’s attributes, then use flexible grouping to group students accordingly.
When to use: When your audience has different experience levels and needs, it allows you to adjust and provide instruction specific to the learner. 
Link: https://www.teachhub.com/top-ways-implement-differentiated-instruction-strategies]]> 2019-03-29 16:10:28 UTC https://padlet.com/catherineholmes/hs66zil9skrb/wish/346616928 Name: harmonybriscoe https://padlet.com/catherineholmes/hs66zil9skrb/wish/346620618 Strategy Name: "Teach Up"

Description:  We do much better if we start with what we consider to be high-end curriculum and expectations — and then differentiate to provide scaffolding, to lift the "kids" up.

Instructions:  The usual tendency is to start with what we perceive to be "grade-level" or "base" material and then dumb it down for some and raise it up for others. Raise the expectation first and then move from there to scaffold.

When to use: Any time

Link:  https://www.prodigygame.com/blog/differentiated-instruction-strategies-examples-download/  
]]> 2019-03-29 16:19:44 UTC https://padlet.com/catherineholmes/hs66zil9skrb/wish/346620618 Name: Alyssa alyssamccanne https://padlet.com/catherineholmes/hs66zil9skrb/wish/346621125 Strategy Name: Cubing
Description: Cubing is an instructional strategy that encourages learners to think of a topic from different points of view
Instructions:  The cubes are six-sided figures that have a different activity on each side of the cube.
A student rolls the cube and does the activity that comes up.
You can differentiate cubes according to readiness, learning profile, or interest
When to use:  Cubing gives students who like to use their hands and move around a chance to feel like they are “playing” while learning. z Cubing gives students a chance to look at a concept from a series of different perspectives. z Cubing allows the teacher to differentiate for readiness in a very un-obvious way. Since all students are working with cubes, students are not aware that their neighbors might be doing something a little different
Link: http://curry.virginia.edu/uploads/resourceLibrary/nagc_cubing__think_dots.pdf]]> 2019-03-29 16:21:07 UTC https://padlet.com/catherineholmes/hs66zil9skrb/wish/346621125 Racquel Nede racquelnedden https://padlet.com/catherineholmes/hs66zil9skrb/wish/346621579
Strategy Tiered Assignments - Series of Tasks in Varied Complexities.

Description:  Have tasks for different levels of mastery. The tasks increase in complexity as the participants move up the proficiency scale. Participants choose the task that they feel matches their proficiency level.
Instructions: Preplan a self-assessment in order for participants to determine where they are at, then match that to an appropriate task.
When to use: This strategy can be used when the participants are at varying levels of mastery.

Link:  https://www.teachhub.com/top-ways-implement-differentiated-instruction-strategies 
]]> 2019-03-29 16:22:21 UTC https://padlet.com/catherineholmes/hs66zil9skrb/wish/346621579 Strategy: Adjusting learning process to differentiate heatherphillips https://padlet.com/catherineholmes/hs66zil9skrb/wish/346623760 Description:  Rather than changing content, learning environment or product, adjust the process.  Several examples are listed below:
- Task Card
- Think/Write/Pair/Share - journaling
- Flexible grouping
- Learning Centers/Station Rotation
- Independent Study
- Tiered Assignments (pair with self-assessment and QFT) - when you generate your own questions)
- Adjusting questions
- Choice activities
- Based on your self-assessment, what is a question you have?
- Expert groups
- Coaches in Training - practice, role playing, provide coach with "stems", sentence frames


]]> 2019-03-29 16:26:37 UTC https://padlet.com/catherineholmes/hs66zil9skrb/wish/346623760 Name: Nana Ito nanaito https://padlet.com/catherineholmes/hs66zil9skrb/wish/346623789 Strategy Name: Personal experience-the "Hey, I'm human too" approach.  Share your own strengths and weaknesses

Description: To familiarize students with the idea of differentiated learning, you may find it beneficial to explain that not everyone builds skills and processes information the same way.

Talking about your own strengths and weaknesses is one way of doing this.

Not only should this help them understand that people naturally learn differently, but give them insight into improving how they process information. 
 
Instructions:  

Explain — on a personal level — how you study and review lessons. Share tactics that do and don’t work for you, encouraging students to try them. 

When to use: Anytime to connect with learners

Link: See
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