Inclusive Insight: Backward Chaining

How to Use Backward Chaining to Differentiate Instruction

If we want our students to learn as much as they can, ideally, they should be presented with learning tasks that are right at their level, or slightly above, so they have to reach a little bit but can ultimately get there. Making this happen as a teacher through differentiating instruction is really challenging because within any group of students, you’ll find a huge range of abilities, background knowledge, and interests. To do differentiation well, you need lots and lots of tools. One of these tools is called backward chaining. It’s an approach that allows a student who struggles with a task to skip some of the early steps in order to experience the later ones. Read more about that here: How to Use Backward Chaining to Differentiate Instruction | Cult of Pedagogy.

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