Chapter 5: Considering Evidence of Learning in Diverse Classrooms

Chapter five of Integrating Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design gave me a good understanding of the assessment principles that are crucial to student understanding. One thing that I particularly liked was how it said “Including a variety of assessments is important not only from a measurement perspective but as a matter of sensitivity to varied learners.” From this I know that I can give assignments that I know certain students will have less difficulty due to the fact that this particular kind of work that I am giving them targets their strengths. If you focus, and consistently stay with the same kind of learning style your whole class is not going to work. Differentiated instruction is extremely important in this case, and you need to know the different kinds of assessments to cover all the different types of learning styles that the students carry in your classroom.