Differentiation is a pragmatic process that enables teachers to maximise each student’s learning in the long term. It is the process of giving students appropriate levels of feedback, scaffolding, and targeted practise to support them in achieving these common learning goals.

In this webinar, Bukky Yusuf FCCT will define the purpose of differentiation and why it is important for ensuring the progress of all learners, provide strategies to overcome differentiation challenges on a day-to-day basis, and give practical examples of differentiation approaches in the classroom.

Resources

• Download Bukky’s presentation
• Further reading & resources: Differentiation
• Further reading & resources: Scaffolding
• Further reading & resources: Inclusion
• Great teaching techniques: Differentiation
• How can we use differentiation to maximise each student’s learning?
• Webinar playback: How can we use differentiation to maximise student learning?
• The I Do WE Do YOU Do Model to Boost Student Results
• How to Teach Writing to Adolescents
• Self-Paced Learning: How One Teacher Does It
• Planning for Differentiation
• Problem Solving: Opening up Problems
• Visual Thesauras
• 4 Differentiation Strategies to Support Students with Learning Disabilities in Online Courses
• Differentiation in Art

Further reading

• Mary Myatt – Back on track – Death by  differentiation
• The Early Career Framework Handbook
• Sara Bubb – How to build differentiation into your planning and teaching 
• Dr Susanna Pinkus – putting differentiation into practice
• Blog posts for remote learning strategies that could help with differentiation
  •  Hours of learning
  • Remote learning hacks
• Sue Cowley – The Ultimate Guide to Differentiation: Achieving Excellence for All
• Barbara R Blackburn – Rigor and Differentiation in the Classroom: Tools and Strategies
• Rachel Orr  – 100 Ideas for Primary Teachers: Differentiation (100 Ideas for Teachers)
• Jayne Bartlett – Outstanding Differentiation for Learning in the Classroom
• Carol Ann Tomlinson –  The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners

Our Presenters

Bukky Yusuf – Bukky is a senior leader, science teacher, and coach. She has undertaken a number of leadership roles within mainstream and special schools.  Bukky’s focus on the impact that educators can make is reflected in the presentations that she delivers at local, national, and international levels. Furthermore, Bukky supports the development of educators at all levels and promotes projects that help colleagues maintain their well-being.  Bukky is well known by her Twitter handle @rondelle10_b

As part of her commitment to increasing diverse leadership within education, she participates in several initiatives and organisations. These include her roles as an ambassador for Leadership Matters, a Network Leader /coach for WomenEd & BAMEEd and a Steering Group member of the teacher5aday well-being initiative. She co-edited ‘The Big Book of Whole School Wellbeing’ which was released in October 2021.

Jackie Hill FCCT – Jackie’s teaching career began in Further Education (Northern Ireland), then switched to Secondary MFL (Stockport), followed by a move to TDA to support Training Schools.  This led to subsequent regional and national roles in teacher recruitment, initial teacher training, professional learning and partnership development. Jackie is a Network Leader for WomenEdNW, and Co-Founder / Network Leader for WomenEdNI.  A supporter of DiverseEd, she is passionate about helping schools to celebrate diversity, and become inclusive and equitable places for staff, students and their families. 

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