6. How do you accommodate different learning styles and
abilities?
I think the fact that we are learning under a theme. And instead
of [requiring that] the students have to learn this set of facts,
it's the students have to learn these processes. You give them the
tools necessary for them to learn those processes, and then you
work with them individually or in groups as they are working on
their own. I gave small, ten-minute mini lessons of different skill
areas, like how to create a characterization map, and then I would
walk around and work with students. Some of the students may have
needed help with just reading excerpts and being able to collect
the entries of each character out of the book. Others needed help
with the actual mapping of their characterization, and that's the
point where it becomes individualized. So it is not so much lecture
teaching as it is coaching the students through the unit.
