Everyone likes to know what to do, when it's due and how to do what you're asking them, while not losing that information...which we all do.
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Embedding your learning goals, instructions, success criteria and making your goals digital and accessible in your assignments helps everyone know what to do and come back to it if they get lost
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.
Students who are struggling with reading and writing may need access to digital copies and tools to compensate for learning gaps during their instructional and assessment time in your classroom.
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Embedding reading and writing tasks into Google Docs opens up 99.9% of the accessilbility doors students may need and benefit from to be successfull in your classroom. By inserting the verbal instructions, learning goal and success criteria into a Google Doc, students will have access to compensation tools that help them develop independence as well as better understand what is expectred of them, regardless of their individual needs.
Feedback lets students know what they are doing well, what they need to work on and how to be successful.
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Traditional feedback for students was been written in the margins of lined paper with a red pen. Today, in a digital environment, there are a multitude of ways for teachers to guide students toward improvement. Hearing your feedback attached directly to a document as a Voice Note is a powerful time-saving tool to help with that process.
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