Differentiation is where students in a single classroom learn in different ways and the teacher in that classroom needs to figure out if every single student is a visual learner, auditory learner, or hands on learner. Differentiation is understanding that all students will not learn the same way and that every student learns in their own different and special way. Once a teacher understands the way a student learns than that teacher will be able to guide that student to the goal that they want them to reach. That is the key though, the teacher needs to put in the extra effort and probably put in more work than they are used to and figure out the students interests and dislikes. What their hobbies are and they definitely need to find out the students strengths. Once they find out all of this information than they can figure out what will work to help the student learn and what strengths to use for that students lesson plans. Now some learning techniques won't work and you will get it wrong every now and then but you can't give up. If you give up than your giving up on these kids and the future of our country.
I surprisingly first experienced differentiation not in the classroom but in the film room for football and in the wrestling room for my wrestling career. My coaches were wondering why I wasn't understanding what to do during a play or during a wrestling match so they figured out that I needed to be shown visually and once I saw what they were talking about, then it clicked for me. My experience in both sports increased a huge amount from my coaches recognizing that I and other players learn in different ways. Now my coaches were also teachers for my high school so they informed all of my other teachers that I needed to learn differently than they were teaching. I had heard that they weren't very happy that they had to put in extra work just to get me to reach my goal of good grades and graduation, but they sucked it up and put the extra work in and I thank them and my coaches for doing that for me.
