Differentiation

A day in the life of a lower level

learner

Observation:
Observe the class for 1 hour.

1. What do you notice? Does the class have any

strengths or weaknesses?
There are strengths students who have an excellent skills at the class and
weakness students who have a weak skills.

2. Are there learners who finish activities quickly? What

do they do when they have finished?
Yes there are students who finished activities quickly , because they know it
and used to do it, after they finished they move to the other activity or play
with students who has finished.

3. Are there learners who do not finish a task(s)? How

does the teacher deal with them?
Yes there are students who doesnt finished the task(s) so, the teacher set
with them and try to explain it many time.
4.

Are there any learners with special needs? How does

the teacher meet their needs?

No there are no special needs learners.

5. How does the teacher manage learners with different

levels/abilities?
She speared students with different abilities into groups so, she speared
two strength students with one middle level with two weakness students to
benefit each other.
6. Are all the children doing the same activity or are there
different activities for the children to do?
There are different activities for students to do, some they did it at the
beginning of the morning to refresh them minds and they did activities
bellowing to the task during the day.

7. If there are different activities, how do the students

know which activity to do? (do they choose? Does
the teacher tell them?)
When the children having different activities the teacher choose one group to
work with her and let other students choose what they want.

Record sheet
Name: Owen

Age:

Grade: FS2

Brief description:
Time

7:15

8:00

8:15

9:15

10:00

11:00

Activity /
Movement
Teachers gave
students
different
activities to
review.
Teacher sang a
song for
student
bellowing to
the task.
Teacher took
students to
the
auditorium.
Teacher ask
students to
eat them
snacks.
Teacher go
with student
to the
playground.
Teacher asks
student to
wear
swimming

Notes / comments

Owen is working alone in one activity.

Owen was singing with students and he was

happy.
Owen wasnt watching with students ,he was
setting atv the back coloring.
Owen was eating his snack.

Owen was playing with his friends.

Owen was changing his clothes noisly.

12:30

1:15

Teacher reads
a story for
students.

Teacher
gives student
different
activities to

Owen wasnt listening to the teacher and he

wasnt setting nicely.
Owen was doing the activities.

1. How many different activities did the learner do?

The learner did five different activities .

2. How did s/he interact with the other learners

throughout the day?
He was playing with his friends sometime and other time he was
setting alone.

3. What was the longest period of time the learner spent

focusing on one activity?
The longest time he spent on one activity was from 15 to 20
minutes.
4. What did the learner do during the break times?
He was eating his food and playing with his friends.

5. Did the learner seem interested during the whole

lesson? If not, for how long was he/she
interested/engaged in the lesson? What caused the
student to lose interest do you think?
He wasnt focusing on the lesson for long time , because he was sad
from the beginning of the day so ,he was noisy but no one let him
lose his focusing ,he was distracting his friends.

6. What did the learner seem to like doing the most and
the least during the day?
He like reading stories and playing with his friend.

Reflection:
Having different kinds of activities in the class is too important for different levels of students in
the classroom. In some activities children like to play individual to do what they want and create
as they want, but some children like to do activities in groups to have different ideas, sharing the
works, and helping each other. My MST is very translating by students levels and which
activities she should have to benefit all levels. For example she have writing activities to student
who have writing skills, she have creativity activities for creativity students and many activities
helps different levels .differentiation in the classroom is very important for students, because it
helps students to improve in the site that they weak on it.