ABSTRACT
This chapter starts with a short discussion about teacher and their identity. It examines a number of common whole school strategies for addressing the educational needs of students. The chapter looks at strategies for personalisation and differentiation within their own classroom. In terms of the social arguments, Richard Hatcher has observed that: The most overt mechanisms of social differentiation within the school system arise from processes of selection, both between schools, as a result of parental choice and school admissions procedures, and within schools, as a result of forms of grouping students. Differentiation is the pedagogical term that teachers use to describe how they seek to make things different for each student's specific learning needs in their class-room. Differentiation is under the control of the teacher; personalisation is driven by the learner. For B. Bray, differentiation is contrasted with personalisation by who is involved in doing it.
