Diversity-sensitive university teaching - Implementation of a differentiation grid

This workshop report introduces a didactic concept – the differentiation grid. The differentiation grid was used to help lecturers at universities handle student diversity and to inspire teachers in training to deal with diversity in classrooms. The concept was applied in an educational science seminar at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and was evaluated via a survey of 203 teacher students. Our findings not only demonstrate that teachers in training positively react to the consideration of their prior knowledge, but also intend to use the differentiation grid to plan their lessons.