Differentiated Instruction

Differentiation means tailoring instruction to meet individual needs. Whether teachers differentiate content, process, products, or the learning environment, the use of ongoing assessment and flexible grouping makes this a

successful approach to instruction.

In differentiated instruction, students are supported according to their capacity and they are educated depending on a method which is determined as suitable for their understanding ability. In my primary and high school years, we could not take advantage of differentiated instruction. All of us were getting same education, some of us have had lower understanding ability and some of us have had very good understanding ability. When they are behaved as if they were same in terms of understanding, the students who have lower understanding will definitely get harm and will be failure in their lessons because they will feel their weaknesses and they will lose their hope and self-esteem.

Moreover, every student have different ability. For example some of them have mathematical smart and some of them can have music smart. If we work to develop the students who have music smart to make them very successful in math like the students who have math smart, we do injustice the students. Also, this is same for the students who have math ability, we cannot want them to be very successful in music because their abilities are innate and we cannot change it and should change it.





When I was primary school, there was a math teacher who is Nejdet Taşdemir. After I recognised my weaknesses belonging to math lesson, he decided to solve my problem and he talked with me to find solutions. We understood that I had learned something wrong with math subjects so I had been failure. He decided to give me an individual course to take me to the stage of the other children in our class.  As a result, we had overcome my problems belonging to math and the teacher had built on one of my strengths. The method worked because he encouraged me and my fear about the lesson had lost. I think that when I am a teacher, I will also encourage my students to take risks in completing assignment so that they could win their self-esteem and they can do their assignment as a funny activity. With the time, this behaviour will change to a habit and they will win their responsibilities to complete their assignments.

Teaching as a Profession:

Collaboration with Colleagues

Collaboration is a good way to deal with problems or to produce new methods and solutions for any situations and problems with other people by discussing and suggesting. Also, collaboration can be used for being better in any subject. I also had a collaboration experiences in high school with my peers. We were making collaboration to be better at our lessons and to produce solutions to learn how to deal with our lessons and their exams. We were discussing subjects of lesson which we could not learn well and we were suggesting how to deal with the subjects which we could not understand. For example, if one of us could not understand a math subject which the teacher talked about in class, we were suggesting him to learn it out of class. We were saying him to watch an online video about the subject. If the person could not again understand it, we were suggesting another method. We actually were not making collaboration only for finding solutions. We were sometimes making it only to produce a social environment in our class. As a result, the collaboration was working well. When we talk about the benefits which collaboration supplied us. I can say that we were getting better in our lessons and their exams. We were being more social and our collaboration skills were improving. If some of us do not know solutions his/her problems about lesson or any subject, we were sharing solutions as much as we know. Moreover, some of us did not know that he/she has a problem which can be solved. We were helping him/her to recognise it. We were relaxed in our conversations because we were not testing us in any subject so we were getting real solutions.

Collaboration can help better when people managing collaboration have necessary collaboration skills. When I talk about my collaboration skills, I can say that I have some strengths and weaknesses. For example, I can transfer my thoughts to my peers and I have self-confidence to show my ideas about subjects when we all come together. On the other hand, I get some harm in terms of accepting mistake ideas which are told by another person for me but the idea can be correct for the person who says it. In fact, I can do something to develop my collaborations skills. For instance, I can demonstrate respect for the opinions, expertise, and experience of others. I can address negativity with empathy. Moreover, I should not hoard my knowledge I can share my own expertise with others so they are in a better position to accomplish group goals.

            It is also important to transfer what is known about being a collaborator to the career. I will transfer what I know about being a collaborator to my teaching career by practicing. I will participate in collaborations, and then I will apply my information about being a collaborator in real. Moreover, I will begin to do it by inviting my peers to prepare a collaboration environment. I will use my collaboration skills to encourage other people in group so that they can transfer their ideas in any subject. As a result, we can start to take advantage of collaboration.