Five-month workplace-based PD program blueprint for teacher differentiation skills

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Evidence · 2 claims (1 for, 1 mixed) · 1 study (1 design), q1 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 2 claims rest on one study

Description

A professional development program designed with 4C/ID and the Ten Steps to teach primary school teachers differentiated instruction in mathematics. It combines three initial group meetings (interactive lectures, modeling examples, imitation tasks), four four-week task classes of daily classroom practice with individual coaching based on classroom recordings, cognitive feedback against 30 performance standards, and team reflection sessions. The article states "it resulted in a detailed blueprint of a five-month professional development program that strategically combines learning activities to stimulate learning processes that are essential for developing the complex skill providing differentiated instruction in a mathematics lesson."

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

• Participating schools must show that at least 80% of the teacher corps is willing to participate voluntarily; teachers should possess at least a basic level of teaching and classroom management skills

Constraints

• Classroom management training was outside the program's scope; part-task practice was not included because no skills required automation

Target Learners

• in-service primary school teachers in the Netherlands

Learning Goals

• providing differentiated instruction in mathematics lessons

Claims

• Five Principles Expert Differentiation [+M]
• Four Phases Expert Differentiation [+M]
• Ten Steps design of a workplace PD program is time and resource-intensive, spanning nearly two years for a five-month program [~W]

Related Designs

• Emphasis Manipulation Task Sequencing

Examples

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Key Sources

• Frerejean, J., van Geel, M., Keuning, T., Dolmans, D., van Merriënboer, J. J. G., & Visscher, A. J. (2021). Ten steps to 4C/ID: training differentiation skills in a professional development program for teachers. Instructional Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11251-021-09540-x

Page metadata

Field	Value
type	design
id	pd-program-differentiation-blueprint
title	Five-month workplace-based PD program blueprint for teacher differentiation skills
description	A professional development program designed with 4C/ID and the Ten Steps to teach primary school teachers differentiated instruction in mathematics.
status	review
generated	by process:settle-candidates on 2026-10-18
trust	unverified — no one has confirmed this page's content
sources	1 — frerejean-2021

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