Differentiation in the Inclusive Classroom

Teacher Professional Development

Differentiation in the Inclusive Classroom

Reaching every learner in a primary classroom. One lesson, more than one way in and more than one way out.

🔍 Pre-workshop: explore

📖 During: use with manual

✓ Post-workshop: revisit

Workshop Objectives

✓ Define inclusive education and understand what equity means in a classroom
✓ Recognise the range of learning needs in a mainstream primary classroom
✓ Identify the four domains of need and what each looks like in a child
✓ Understand how executive functioning and emotional regulation affect access to learning
✓ Identify the four dials of differentiation: content, process, product and environment
✓ Use readiness, interest and learning profile to decide which dial to turn
✓ Plan one lesson three ways using Must, Should, Could
✓ Distinguish accommodations from modifications, and practise five low-preparation strategies

Start Here

Before your workshop

Pre-Workshop Reflection

A quick check-in to see where you are right now. No pressure, just curiosity.

After your workshop

Post-Workshop Reflection

Return here after your session to see how your thinking has shifted.

Both check-ins use the same questions. Your pre results are saved on this device so you can compare afterwards.

Topic Activities

Inclusive Education

Inclusive education, what equity really means, and why most classrooms that call themselves inclusive are actually integrating.

Explore the Categories Knowledge Check

Knowing Your Learners

The four domains of need, how a need in one shows up as another, and the two capacities underneath them that decide whether a child can use anything you plan.

Which Domain? Cannot or Will Not Knowledge Check

Content, process, product and environment, and the three learner characteristics that tell you which one to turn.

Sort the Strategy Knowledge Check

Five ways to group, what fixed ability tables actually do to children, and an honest audit of your own practice.

Self-Audit Knowledge Check

Accommodations and Modifications

One question separates the two, and getting it right protects both the child and you.

Rapid Sort Knowledge Check

Planning a Tiered Lesson

One lesson planned three ways, the two mistakes everybody makes, and the three pile system that tells you who belongs where.

Sequence the Steps Spot the Mistake

Reference

Common Exceptional Needs

Eleven plain-language entries: what each one is, what you might see in the classroom, what tends to help, and when a conversation with your administration is worth having.

Reference only Not for identifying