I think differentiating instruction is one of the more challenging tasks that a teacher in any year in there career faces.  I struggle with it and am constantly searching for a formula that will solve the topic; needless to say it doesn’t exist.  The reason why it doesn’t exist is because from year to year and class to class your students abilities will always differ: no one class will ever be the same.  I think this is why i finding it challenging.  I will always have those powerpoints and documents I’ve created, but there is no way to always prepare for the students entering into your class.  So the advice that I think I would like to give here would be to never give up, dig deep and persevere through the situation you face.  We always tell students to keep at it, I think this is one of those situations where we need to keep at it.  When I was doing my student teaching, my mentor gave me praise for an after school session that I had completed in which she said I differentiated very well.  That day, in a span of about an hour, I had 2 students complete 2 different labs, I helped 3 different students with 3 different topics within chemistry and administered 1 test.  Needless to say I was running around like a crazy person and was exhausted by the end of the day, it wasn’t even a Friday, but I saw 6 students leave pretty satisfied and that made me feel pretty good about doing my job.  No one ever said this profession was going to be easy.  I never thought it would be easy, but I didn’t think I would face the challenges I do on a daily basis.  Teaching is a demanding profession and not many others face this idea of differentiating instruction.  So, if you take something away from this blog, then it is to stick with it, work hard and the results will follow.