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Social Studies Teachers' Use Of Differentiated Instruction To Help Struggling Learners, Nicole Waid
Social Studies Teachers' Use Of Differentiated Instruction To Help Struggling Learners, Nicole Waid
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Students in a local rural northeastern high school have demonstrated decreasing academic performance in social studies courses for the past 5 years. The purpose of this bounded qualitative case study of the local social studies department was to investigate how social studies teachers and administrators for grades 7-12 describe differentiated instruction (DI) and professional development in DI. This study was grounded in the zone of proximal development, which stressed the importance of providing instruction at students' instructional levels, and DI, which emphasized tailoring instruction to address students' needs. Three research questions focused on how social studies teachers and administrators viewed …