Abstract: In order to be able to teach in an academically diverse classroom teachers need to be able to do several things. They need to be able to present the goals of learning in a way that the students can understand why they need to be able to know the material. Students need to learn the basics and apply them in a meaningful way. Teachers need to be able to recognize the balance between student understanding and guiding that understanding. Finally the students need to know the goals of a unit so that they can properly reach them. To achieve this teachers need to be able to use all of the tools they have and this chapter talks about using RAFT in the classroom as one of the tools that a teacher could use. Responsive teaching and differentiated instruction provides appropriate instruction and the required support for the students to succeed.
Reflection: This chapter provided good examples of responsive teaching that a teacher could use in the classroom. Responsive teaching is geared towards enabling the students to understand the material and not just to memorize it and regurgitate it for the test. This chapter also gave good ideas on teaching a unit such as RAFT. This method gets the students involved by giving them a role that deals with the unit.
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