FAIR IS NOT ALWAYS EQUAL.

Teaching Doctoring

Kids go to a doctor with different needs: What if the doctor said the same thing to all of them? I think my arm is broken! Here’s my stomach hurts! I scraped my knee! Only one kid would get what he needs.

And that’s

not fair.

It’s the same thing in a classroom.

Every student has different needs: different students should get different things to help them succeed. I can talk about what I have trouble focusing for more than 15 min. I think better when I can’t grip a pen or pencil. Classroom breaks; toys and video activities instead of composing writing on a computer.

And that’s what makes a classroom

Adapted from Teaching Everyone by Whitney Rapp and Katrina Arndt and Universal Design for Learning in Action by Whitney Rapp.