(Smith, 2012, pg. 173)

Learning differentiation is something that I’ve tried to implement in my classroom. I’m constantly learning how to scaffold activities so low-performing, average performers, and high performers take advantage of the learning environment. It’s not easy to engage all students at the same rate, making sure they’re also helping each other. Other things that I always find important to differentiate is making different types of activities based on learning styles, be it using visuals, audio, writing, and how I organize information on the board, color code important grammar changes, etc., as a future Spanish teacher. It’s also key to reach a balance understanding not just students’ academic performance, but also different learning styles and strategies, which can be also be implemented with different types of differentiation. For this reason, thinking about using different types of modalities like visual, kinesthetic, auditory in classroom activities and lesson planning will help students reproduce authentic material that represent different structures of the Spanish language and its culture—be it by writing, speaking, drawing, pictures, etc.