A Study On Differentiated Instruction Practice Of Primary And Secondary School In America

Differentiated instruction is emerged in the1990s in American. It absorbed manyeducation teaching theory and teaching practice, and it is a teaching which respect thestudents’ differences during teaching process. Attributed to its sharp teaching characteristics,differentiated instruction caused extensive concern of the educators, And became today’seducation theory research hot spot problems. The differentiated instruction in primary andsecondary schools of the American currently has obtained good results on differentiatedinstruction theoretical study and practical aspects. Since our new round of course of2001,practice of teaching in primary and middle school strengthened the attention to students’differences, stressed to respect the students’ differences in the teaching process. Respectingstudents’ differences is the requirement of the new course reform, and it is also the need ofteaching practice at present. The study how to develop students’ differences in the respect ofthe teaching of research and practice experience in our country are not perfect, and needfurther investigation. So on this study stage which teaching should pay attention to thestudents’ differences in our country, this paper on differentiated instruction practice inAmerican elementary and secondary schools is helpful to solve the problem of how to teachbased on the difference of students of the middle and primary in China, it has the importantmeaning.The main body of this dissertation consists of five chapters:The first chapter is theory basis and realistic background for the differentiated instruction.The differentiated instruction is formed based on absorbing many education theories. Whydifferentiated instruction should be based on students’ learning level, learning interest andlearning style? In this section first mainly analyze the related important theory basis. then,analyze the realistic background of differentiated instruction from three aspects.The second chapter is the safeguard conditions to differentiated instruction practice ofAmerican primary and middle school. The United States differentiated instructionimplementation in primary and secondary school education Cannot leave national policy andsystem support; At the same time, parents actively participate in community school teachingand give school teaching strong support; the Small class teaching form of elementary andsecondary schools; The teachers’ professional learning community; auxiliary teaching staff;the computer aided teaching，the teacher training of differentiated instruction,those provides apowerful conditions for differentiated instruction implementation. The chapter mainly analyzethe above safeguard conditions to differentiated instruction.The third chapter is the practice strategy of the differentiated instruction. The class teaching, group teaching and individual teaching are three commonly used differentiatedinstruction teaching organization forms in American primary and middle school. The chapteranalyze practice strategies of the above three teaching organization forms.The fourth chapter is the comprehensive application of class teaching, group teachingand individual teaching. The class teaching, group teaching and individual teaching are threecommonly used differentiated instruction organization forms in American primary and middleschool, the teacher usually comprehensive use three teaching organization forms. The chapteranalyze the characteristics and models of the comprehensive application of class teaching andindividual teaching, the comprehensive application of group teaching and individual teaching,and the comprehensive application of class teaching, group teaching, individual teaching.The fifth chapter is the characteristics and problems of differentiated instruction practicein American primary and secondary schools. This chapter summarize the characteristics ofdifferentiated instruction’ practice in American primary and secondary school. The chapterdiscussed above and analyze its existing problems.