EP135 Real talk on how to make differentiation less time-consuming

Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers

Angela Watson

Education, Courses

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

One of the issues I'm most passionate about is making teaching more effective, efficient, and enjoyable, so I've gathered a group of educators to create a Productivity Roundtable.

Joining me are five members of the 40 Hour Teacher Workweek Club's graduate program. They have done a tremendous amount of work in experimenting with various productivity strategies in their classrooms and creating systems and routines that work well for them and their students. Since they teach at different grade levels and subject areas, in different types of school settings and communities, in a diverse set of locations throughout the United States, you're going to hear what works with a variety of teaching contexts and teaching styles.

This time around, we're talking about how to manage differentiation. During the roundtable, we'll move past "differentiation" as a buzzword and talk about what's happening in real classrooms. Each roundtable member will share how they differentiate instruction, and then move into how we can make differentiation more scalable. We'll finish up by talking about their differentiation fails and mistakes, and some traps or pitfalls they think teachers should avoid as they look for ways to differentiate.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 135 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. I'm your host
0:06.6	Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth into the minds
0:11.8	and hearts of educators and get you energized for the week ahead.
0:15.7	Today I'm going to let you listen in on a roundtable discussion with a diverse group of teachers
0:20.1	who are sharing their best hacks, tips, and tricks for differentiated instruction.
0:25.0	Visit truth for teachers.com to see a bullet point outline of the key concepts we discuss
0:30.0	and leave your own ideas or questions there in the comments.
0:34.0	So last season of the podcast, I introduced you to an episode format
0:38.0	that I'm calling the Productivity Roundtable.
0:40.0	I've always thought it would be really cool to get a group of master teachers
0:43.4	together to hash out some of their toughest challenges and also to share what's
0:47.6	working. So joining me are five members of the 40-hour teacher work week club's graduate program. These are
0:54.6	teachers who have completed their full year as a club member and they're now in year
0:58.5	three or four of taking those results to the next level and really continuing to streamline.
1:03.4	So they have done a tremendous amount of work in experimenting with various
1:07.2	productivity strategies, both in their classrooms and at home as well,
1:11.2	and just creating systems and routines that work well for them and their students.
1:15.6	They all teach at different grade levels in different subject areas.
1:18.4	They're in different types of school settings and communities.
1:21.0	They're in diverse locations all throughout the United States. So you're
1:24.4	going to hear what works with a variety of teaching context and learning styles. This time around,
1:30.8	we're talking about how to manage differentiation.
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