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Differentiated Learning Forum
Stretching able students

Weetwood Hall, Leeds, Wednesday 13th June 2007

Time and resources within bioscience courses can often seem to be diverted towards supporting struggling students, and many courses may be failing to stretch top-end students and develop them to their full potential. In order to investigate current practice and interest in stretching the most able students the Centre for Bioscience called an invitation-only working meeting of approximately 20 bioscientists to discuss and report on the issues and how they might be progressed.

The Forum aimed to bring together those interested in and those already practicing aspects of differentiated learning, specifically stretching the more able students, in order to inform the bioscience community and the activities of the Centre

The output of the Forum includes a report, released nationally, identifying the current state of play, the issues and difficulties in this area and a realistic appraisal of how this important aspect might be progressed. 

 

Programme
9.30 Refreshments and Registration
10.00 Welcome and aims of the Forum
10.15 Group exercise
 led by Ian Hughes
11.00 Practitioner presentation
11.20 Refreshments
11.30 Practitioner presentations
12.30 Lunch
13.30 The ethics of differentiated learning
Rob Lawlor and Georgia Testa, IDEA CETL
14.15 Refreshments
14.30 Differentiated learning scenario exercise
led by Ian Hughes
15.30 Facilitated discussion
How could the Centre for Bioscience and the bioscience community support differentiated learning?
Led by Ian Hughes
15.55 Close and report arrangements
16.00 Depart
 

 

Summary of the day (pdf document)

Differentiated Learning Forum Report

Other resources