The need
of the study is to examine the teacher perceptions, practices and challenges of
differentiated instruction in School. At the
same time to determine whether the use of differentiated instruction would
improve students’ engagement in activities and their academic achievement and
to identify ways for applying differentiated instruction. If all teachers are able to provide
differentiated instructions in every lesson all the students will benefit. At the same time,
based on my experience, if the lesson is differentiated, there are fewer chances
of seeing misbehavior in the class and students’ engagement in activities is
also increased.
When
I was a student, once, our teacher told us to write an essay for a given topic. There were students who took so much time to
start writing that essay, while some of them could not even complete that task.
On the other hand, when the teacher
provided many topics and gave a chance to choose an interesting area that we
like to write, all students interestingly started writing. At the same time, that difficult task changed
to an easy and interesting task for all the students. Not only this, in every differentiated lesson
I myself feel that I can achieve the learning objectives. That is when I was a student, now I am a
teacher, now also I have the same feeling.
If I practice differentiation in the class I feel happy because that
differentiation meets the learning needs of all the students. So, I strongly believe practicing
differentiated instruction in every lesson improves student engagement,
interest to learn, motivation, and performances. It is important because all the students are
different from one another, and they learn in different ways and their
interests and capabilities are also different.
