ABOUT THIS EPISODE
🗣️ Say 'differentiation' in a staffroom and watch the shoulders drop.
Somewhere along the way it stopped meaning good teaching and started meaning more: more worksheets, more groups, more versions of the same lesson, more of you spread thinner.
This episode takes the word back.
Differentiation was never about making more things. It's about going deeper into one thing.
I unpack why the three-versions approach triples your planning while quietly sorting children into fixed lanes, what a low floor high ceiling task actually looks like in practice, and why the hardest differentiation isn't on the page at all.
It's the stream of small in-the-moment decisions you make all day, the most skilled and least visible work you do.
If differentiation has been sitting on your shoulders as one more thing you're not doing well enough, this one is for you.
✨ In this episode:
- Why three versions of a worksheet isn't differentiation, it's admin.
- One rich task, many ways in: low floor, high ceiling design.
- A worked example you can steal for maths tomorrow.
- Differentiation as a decision, not a document.
- The in-the-moment judgement you've been using all along without naming it.
- One thing to try this week: one lesson, one question, one tweak.
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