Free Online by FutureLearn: Differentiation for Learning

Future Learn Platform is offering a free online course on the theme of “Differentiation for Learning”.

Introduction to course:

Every student is different, entering classrooms with varying ideas and understanding. This course will help you improve your understanding and use of differentiating for learning for both primary and secondary education.

You will explore the key principles of effective differentiation for learning, see how teachers use these approaches in their classrooms, and learn how to differentiate for learning by task. Real classroom footage and examples are provided from science and maths lessons.

You will leave the course feeling confident in your ability to respond to evidence of your students’ learning and address their different needs.

This course is intended for:

This course is for teachers, curriculum leaders, teaching assistants, newly qualified teachers, trainee teachers and others involved in teaching Science, Engineering, Technology, Computing or Maths. It’s suitable for educators working at primary, secondary or further education (ages 5-19 years).

Teachers of other disciplines will find the course useful to extend their thinking about how to support all learners they teach.

Course duration:

3 hours per week for 3 weeks.

Course topics:

• Supporting all students to develop knowledge, understanding and skills
• Nurturing a differentiated learning environment to motivate all learners
• The importance of challenge if learning is to occur

Course objectives:

By the end of this course learners will be able to:

1. Describe the key principles of differentiation for learning.
2. Evaluate a range of practical ideas that can be used to scaffold students’ learning.
3. Collect and analyse evidence from students on changes implemented in the classroom in order to critically reflect on own practice in order to prioritise next steps in own development
4. Develop a classroom culture that motivates all learners.
5. Identify approaches to increase challenge and ownership of learning within their teaching context.

Course costs:

Learner can join this course for free and get access to it for 5 weeks.

Or upgrade this course for $94 and gets:

• Access to this course for as long as it’s on Future Learn.
• Access to this course’s tests as well as a print and digital Certificate of Achievement once he/she is eligible.

Or buy unlimited for $ 189.99 for one year and gets:

• Access to this course, and hundreds of other FutureLearn short courses and tests for a year.
• A printable digital Certificate of Achievement on all short courses once they are eligible.
• The freedom to keep access to any course he/she has achieved a digital Certificate of Achievement on, for as long as the course exists on Future Learn.
• The flexibility to complete own choice of short courses in learner’s own time within the year.

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