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 have a cough! My knee! Only one kid would get what he needs.

And that’s

not fair.

It’s the same thing in a classroom.

So different students should get different things to help them succeed. Every student has different needs: I can talk about what I have trouble focusing for more than 15 min. I know better than I can write about it. I think better when my hands are busy. Classroom breaks; creating a modified writing tests taken instead of composing writing on a computer paper days instead.

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.