Differentiation in Middle and High School Classrooms:
Strategies to Engage ALL Learners

Whether you’re new to differentiated instruction or looking to expand your repertoire of differentiated instruction strategies, this course will show you classroom-tested ways to better engage students and help them succeed every day. As many neurology experts observe, the degree of change experienced by the adolescent brain is matched only by that of the infant brain. These changes affect many aspects of learning and the most fundamental of which is dealing with emotions. Adolescents often devote more time and energy to worrying about whether they are safe and accepted than to caring about whether they are learning. The projected outcome of this course is to provide classroom teachers with the knowledge, understanding, and methodologies needed to create successful differentiated classrooms as well as build healthy teacher-student and student-student relationships. These improved relationships will create community-centered classrooms that will positively impact academic growth.