Differentiated Instruction for Academic Diversity

Academic diversity in the classroom at Durham Tech can be harnessed through Differentiated Instruction (DI) to improve the teaching experience and help fulfill learning outcomes, as well as increasing student participation, engagement, success, and satisfaction. This series of four (4) workshops presents practical strategies for adapting our classrooms to support our academic diversity. The workshop series on differentiated instruction (DI) will begin with an examination of DI and its relevance to your classroom and end with reflections on implementation of some of the strategies.    

Dates of Workshops: March 21, March 28, April 11, April 25 2025 in the CLE 3-125.

Workshop Schedule: 10:00am-12:00pm

Learning Outcomes: After this presentation series, faculty will be able to: 

• Reflect on current practice related to academic diversity.  
• Examine Differentiated Instruction (DI) and the meaning of Content, Process and Product and how these concepts can be applied to Community College (CC) pedagogy.   
• Apply strategies that are available to modify Content, Process and Instructional Product.  
• Evaluate strategies used to modify Content, Process and Instructional Product. 
• Reflect on changes implemented and their impact. 

Workshop Session Focus: 

Workshop 1: The Differentiated classroom

Workshop 2: Exploration

Workshop 3: Implementation Experience

Workshop 4: Implementation Recommendation

Recommended for all faculty