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REFLECTION ON DIFFERENTIATION IN ELT CONFERENCE AT YUCE COLLEGE BY EDA TOPAL

I attended an ELT conference at Yüce College with the help of my instructor Işıl Günseli Kaçar. it was very nice for me. I liked it very much.There were five speaker and each one of them was very good and efficient. One of the speakers spoke via webinar. Although all of them are beneficial for me, I liked the first speaker Annamaria Pinter. She talked about differentiation in class and teaching skills. In fact, I had not known anything about differentiation in classes and teaching skills before this conference. She helped me to gain a view about what differentiaton means and how we can use it.

In her speech, she mentioned the meaning of differentiation instruction. What is differentiation instruction? Differentiation instruction is a teaching skill that allows teachers to overcome some challenges. What are these challenges? Every student in our class is different from each other. Their backgrounds, identical abilities, experiences, needs, learning styles, language proficiency, are varying in a classrom. apart from these differences, we also want students to be succesful in the same lessons and concepts. this is a big challenge in terms of students and teacher. Therefore, teachers should take students ideas into account and they can structure the learning environment with the help of differentiation instruction. Mrs. Pinter pointed that all teachers should give importance to students' ideas. this is very important for students and this makes students pay attention to lessons. Differentiaton instruction helps teachers to challenge with different students.

Consequently, I have learned lots of things from her such as the meaning of differentiation instruction and how I can use it in a classroom. I believe that differention instruction will help me in my teaching life. I will use this theory to cope with some students' differences. In this theory, the most important thing is taking students' ideas into account. I thank to Annamaria Pinter.

comment by Fadime Yermez

thank you Eda for this reflection..you have said general things about the conference..ıt was beneficial for me..and also good for you that you stated your ideas about these conferences..