Education Presentation and Commentary Paper 2022

Running head: COMMENTARY 1
Education: Presentation and Commentary
By (Student’s Name)
Institutional Affiliation

COMMENTARY 2
Introduction:
Each and every student in a class has his or her different ways of learning. Mathematics
as a discipline requires deeper elaboration and detail explanation in order to grab the concepts,
techniques as well as various methods and their applications. For this reason, there is a need for
mathematics teachers to adopt a teaching technique that accommodates each and every student's
learning needs, and the only method of instruction suitable to achieve this is differentiated
learning. The content of this paper, therefore, evaluates and assesses how a mathematics teacher
can use differentiated learning as a method of instruction to help learners with ADHD. Children
with ADHD are learners with a special condition that makes then not to have the same learning
ability as the other learners. According to the research evidence, learners with ADHD normally
score a lower score than other students in mathematics with at least 8% to 10% percent. Thus to
ensure that there are healthy competition and effective learning for all the learners in a
mathematics class, the teacher should adopt a differentiated learning technique.
Strategies and approaches suitable for mathematics class differentiation:
o Consultative-based academic intervention or approach
o Cognitive based instruction
o Keyword use approach
o Linking explanations and concepts to the real-world scenario
o Rewriting problems in a more simple language
o Allowing the ADHD learns with adequate participation chances
o Application of small group learning and peer teaching

COMMENTARY 3
o Use of guided questioning techniques to enable learners to express their level of
understanding
How do the approaches and strategies you discussed in presentation relate to
theories of differentiated instruction?
Differentiated learning is an educational framework in which the teacher organization
classroom in a way that enables learners to learn through various avenues (Gipe & Richard,
2018). Therefore, for a mathematics teacher to ensure that his or her lesson content reaches
every learner as per their uniqueness and learning abilities, the teacher must shake up the
classroom and organize it in ways that the learners have various avenues of acquiring,
processing, and make sense of the lesson content. In this manner, the application of a cognitive
approach while teaching learners with ADHD enables a mathematics teacher in a class to
accommodate each and every learner's as per their cognitive abilities. Also, the application of a
consultative based teaching enables teachers in mathematics classrooms to apply learner-
centered teaching, which benefits each and every learner at a personal level, thus concurring with
theories of differentiation, which requires teachers to offer to teach services to learners at a
personal level.
Differentiated learning theories also require the teacher to provide the individual learner
with specific steps towards taking control of their learning experience (Suprayogi, Valcke &
Godwin, 2017). Therefore, allowing individual ADHD learners with adequate participation
chances is one of the ways that a mathematics teacher can allow learners to take control of their
learning. Another strategy that presents learners with the opportunity to take control of their
learning is peer teaching or tutoring. By organizing learners with ADHD in mathematics class