With a variety of needs in your class that may or may not be represented on an IEP, developing your classroom assignments in Google Docs pre plans to meet a variety of accommodations
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By embedding your task instrutions, learning goal, success criteria, reading passages and comprehension questions all into docs, you set yourself up to meet the needs of all learners and promote the modelling of digital tools for your entire class.
Teachers can sometimes forget all the great points and references to good first teaching they might make while discussing an assignment in front of the class. Students are likely to forget even more often for a variety of reasons.
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By modelling your instructions digitally and recording them with Screencastify, you will transer the owness of indepenence to the students, present or away, at any time during instruction. This will free you up to engage in the learning with the students and not in the task crtieria.
Keeping it all together. Students learn best when they see connections and can access materials in a variety of ways.
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The text, materials, videos, websites, the document, anchor charts, word-lists, can all get lost as we move forward in the learning.
Keeping everything together in one DIGITAL place ensures items don't get lost while appealing to students for greater engagement in the learning, UDL style!
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You could use these bigger, fancier words to describe this kind of student need.
Learning Skill: Initiative
Executive Functioning: Task Initiation
Executive Functioning: Goal Direction and Persistence
Executive Functioning: Planning and Prioritizing