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Rachel Ball

Rachel Ball

Professional boxer and former kickboxer

Jun 17, 2026

5:44
Can you, but can you tell our listeners, what is the difference between those three things? What exactly are they?
5:53
I'll give it a go.
5:56
So differentiation tends to mean when we predetermine the level of support that students will need.
6:03
So we are meeting the needs of learners, but we are kind of predetermining in advance what particular groups we're going to put students in or what levels of the curriculum they'll access, what content they'll access.
6:16
Now, there are aspects of a differentiated curriculum that will always be required.
6:21
You know, if we're working in split a school that has split classes, you know, where you have like multiple year groups in a class, it's not kind of fair or reasonable to ask children who are working several years below other peers in the class.
6:36
And to kind of meet the same learning outcomes, there'll always be an aspect of differentiation that is needed.

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20:07
And we can all be novices and experts, can't we?

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