Differentiated Instruction: A Band-Aid Approach for a Flawed System

Autor/in	Stone, Sandra J.
Titel	Differentiated Instruction: A Band-Aid Approach for a Flawed System
Quelle	In: International Journal of the Whole Child, 3 (2018) 1, S.19-29 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2474-297X
Schlagwörter	Individualized Instruction; Teaching Methods; Student Needs; Curriculum; Student Centered Learning; Accountability; Testing; Grading; Readiness; Student Interests; Cognitive Style; Course Content; Student Diversity + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Individualisierender Unterricht; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Curricula; Lehrplan; Rahmenplan; Group work; Student-entered learning; Student-centred learning; Student centred learning; Schülerorientierter Unterricht; Schülerzentrierter Unterricht; Gruppenarbeit; Verantwortung; Testdurchführung; Testen; Notengebung; Schulnote; Studieninteresse; Cognitive styles; Kognitiver Stil; Kursprogramm
Abstract	The United States currently has a system which was instituted almost two hundred years ago as a result of the Industrial Revolution. Education incorporated the efficiency of a manufacturing model into a way to educate the general populace. While the intentions were well-meaning, they were not based on an understanding of child development or even on how children learn. Through the years, different approaches have been used to make education more efficient. A significant approach was to use a more scientific method, termed the behaviorist approach, to maximize curricular instruction through lesson plans and objectives. However, the "elephant in the room" is that our educational system of grouping children by age for one-size-fits-all instruction is ultimately a flawed system. Respected authors and educators have called to "throw out the whole system" and pursue radical change. With the possibilities of inventing a new system, the "Differentiated Instruction" model is examined. This article seeks to demonstrate how differentiated instruction is simply a "Band Aid" approach for an educational system that is detrimental to the development and well being of diverse and unique children. This article proposes that a new and different system needs to be created to meet the needs of ALL children. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Tennessee Association for Childhood Education International. Web site: https://libjournals.mtsu.edu/index.php/ijwc
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01