Hello everyone! My name is Michael Mann. I am 25 years old and I currently live in Sacramento, CA. However, I am Pinole, a small town in the East San Francisco Bay Area. I graduated from UC Davis, majoring in Music and minoring in History. I have been a substitute teacher for the past three years, two years in the Bay Area and one year in Sacramento. I am in the process of getting my single-subject teaching credential in Music, along with my masters in Differentiated Instruction. During my time substitute teaching, I have taught in many long-term teaching positions, some in music and some in history. This has been mostly at the high school level. At first, I rarely used differentiated instruction because I had not learned about it yet. I mostly lectured (especially in history) while the students took notes. Now, I realize the effectiveness and necessity of differentiating my instruction. In the music classroom, I can do many things to differentiate instruction and make sure tha