Project Outreach
Differentiated Instruction is a teaching theory based on the premise that instructional approaches should vary and be adapted in regard to individual and diverse students in classrooms.In November 2006, Welborn Baptist Foundation presented Marian Educational Outreach with a grant for Project Outreach that would lay the groundwork to provide differentiated instructional training to every teacher in every school within the Evansville Catholic Diocese.
Project Outreach is being planned as a three year program and is being managed by an Advisory Committee consisting of elementary, secondary and university educators. The Advisory Committee has been meeting monthly since February and has selected three pilot schools whose faculties will begin their training in June 2007. Differentiated Instruction training and follow up classroom support will be available to all of the teachers at Corpus Christi, Holy Redeemer and Holy Spirit Catholic Schools. The training and support will be provided by Indiana University Center for Education and Lifelong Learning. The training and support will run through May 2008. In November 2007, Welborn Baptist Foundation awarded MEO with a $100,000 grant to train teachers in six additional schools in the Evansville Catholic Diocese. This training will be on-going from July 2008 until May 2009.
Pilot School Principals and Director of Schools
The long-term goals for Project Outreach
To train all general education teachers in differentiated instruction so that they enjoy the tools and gain the self confidence to effectively serve an ever growing diverse population of students To develop school environments where all (academically challenged and gifted and talented) students are treated equally and feel that it is ok to learn in different ways and at different speeds To develop school climates where all children feel loved and wanted.
(For more information about Project Outreach
contact Beverly Williamson at 812-402-6700)
