According to the teacher and the principles, what are the benefits of the differentiated labs?

This was a great move by the educators to review data which is a great starting point for scholars in knowing levels. This provides an intentionality to better support scholars during lab activities.  Teachers are able to draw on each others varied expertice/experiences to better service the students.  Scholars/Peers can hold each other accountable during labs depending on activity and established roles.  It elicits all parties involved to stretch their limits within the labs.

1. According to the teachers and the principal, what are the benefits of the differentiated labs?

The differentiated labs helps teachers and principal Identify and learn where students are in a topic and what they do to help them succeed and exceed their knowledge.

1. How are teachers' individual areas of expertise identified?

Each teacher discuss how and what they can do to improve their classroom. They use their knowledge and experience from previous years to help tweak their lesson plans. Each teacher takes a group of students they feel comfortable teaching, ex advanced, middle, etc to teach and discuss their strategies. By listening to each other’s opinions they find new ways to help students and their needs. 

1. How does this school use instructional expertise to advance quality instruction?

The four teachers mentioned in the video, use their knowledge and experience to work with a certain group of students. Each student is placed with one of the four teachers depending on where they stand and each teacher works with them based on their knowledge. Helping each and every student to succeed and become better learners.

Paula Pleasant

I lke this concept, it remindered me of back in the day old school teaching. I remember being exposed to and challenged a lot more in school because of a score on a test and being placed into a certain group. I think that it sometimes makes a student more comfrotable and helps to build confidence if they can be taught at a pace that htey can understand, grasp and be successful. The goal is meet them where they are and grow them. I love the fact that the teachers choose the groups that they have more experience with, or feel more comfortable with. Everyone has a niche; we like to talk about differentiated instruction but, it is really difficult to do and doesn't happen as smoothly as most teachers would like. This is a pefect solution to me, I loved it!!

The differentiated labs help teachers Identify expertise and take students from where they are to where they can achieve the goals. It helps them identify student's individual learning needs. The four teachers each handle a different segment of the class but all teach the same lesson using different strategies based on the need of the students. The teachers have the opportunity to tweak their lesson and add the expertise of the four teachers to enhance the quality of their lesson. The use of teacher's expertise helped improve their lesson quality because each brought in their years of experience to improve their students' needs.  

Differentiated Labs are very important in a classroom because they help the teacher to access the students learning needs. It also benefit the teacher because it helps the teacher to determine his/her strengths when teaching the students.