Originally Posted by indigo
Beware of differentiated task demands, in which top students are not taught at a higher level (with appropriate curriculum placement, level, pacing, and intellectual peers in their zone of proximal development) but rather are required to produce at a higher level to achieve the same scoring or grades.

Considering the 5Ws may be helpful in keeping the differentiation focused on instruction, as opposed to differentiated work products, deliverables, or task demands.

The differentiated task demands approach sounds like all the worst of differentiation my kids have experienced. Instruction and curriculum must be done together. Gah! Yes, the kid's smart, but still needs a teacher!

I've seen the 5W's quite consistently. The collapse of the system in our experience is that H part....