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What to consider for the back of the room
What to consider for the back of the room
What resources will best support deeper understanding and transfer and ongoing collaboration?
Consider how you are support comprehension and sustaining effort and persistence.
Access Check:
Access Check:
Can everyone physically navigate the resources in the back of the room?
Are there freely available digital versions of the resources?
How is crucial background knowledge support and primed?
“The hardest part of learning something new is not embracing new ideas, but letting go of old ones.”
― Todd Rose
“If a student’s affective network is not engaged in a learning experience they may be able to repeat the skill in the same setting (classroom) but they are neurobiologically unable to transfer that learning to a new context.”
-Mary Helen Immordino-Yang
To Support Comprehension in the Back of the Room consider...
To Support Comprehension in the Back of the Room consider...
Mapping out content or skills you have learned so far
Sharing big questions or ideas and having students interact with them
Having learners record new learning as they go
Creating a prior knowledge and skill station to go to as needed
Supporting learners to sustain effort
Supporting learners to sustain effort
“It’s through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.”
–Paula Scher
To Support Sustained Effort in the Back of the Room consider...
To Support Sustained Effort in the Back of the Room consider...
Creating a space and guidelines for collaboration
Offering ways for learners to get feedback at any time - from peers, other resources like models, and finally you
Creating a goal reminder station that has resources on the relevance, importance, and what success looks like
COLLABORATE
COLLABORATE
Interview a colleague:
What is your design challenge?
How do you hope students will interact with the learning environment?
What barriers are getting in the way? Consult the UDL guidelines - What options might minimize those barriers?
Read the UDL Learning Spaces Idea Kit with a colleague. Choose three cards to explore and use for brainstorming.
DESIGN
DESIGN
Choose a space in your classroom to consider. Use the Learning Environment Map to build and experiment In that space, what barriers do you want to address? What new predictable options could you offer?
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