#2: Teachers are personally inviting.
#2: Teachers are personally inviting.
"Kids get it that we like them."
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Culturally responsive teachers are warm, supportive, personable, patient, understanding, enthusiastic, flexible and stay on task. In our roles, we have the power to build bridges between the school culture and the cultural communities. In order to do this, the teacher must reject the myth of color-blindness and celebrates and acknowledges all the diverse perspectives of student and family home cultures, and fully recognize the impact a child's home culture has on learning at school.
By recognizing the impact that culture has, we are more able to find opportunities to differentiate for our students by giving them voice and choice in the classroom. Giving students voice and choice in how they demonstrate their learning and giving them multiple means of representation and access to content can be accomplished by using a variety of digital tools.
Read, Watch, Question
Read, Watch, Question
Read
Read
Use articles below to learn more about being personally inviting through research and practical applications.
Use articles below to learn more about being personally inviting through research and practical applications.
(Solo, Collaboration, Consulting, Create-It)
Student Voice and Choice: It’s Not Just for Projects Anymore
Voice and Choice: It’s More Than Just "What"
How to Use Technology to Support the UDL Principles in Reading
Watch
Watch
Watch videos to gain insight and gather ideas about how to be more personally inviting teacher.
Watch videos to gain insight and gather ideas about how to be more personally inviting teacher.
(Solo, Consulting, Create-It)
Google Docs for Collaborative Writing
Using technology to differentiate by process
Question
Question
Use questions to help reflect on ways to be more personally inviting.
Use questions to help reflect on ways to be more personally inviting.
(Collaboration, Consulting)
- How do the digital platforms I am choosing to use allow ALL students to participate?
- What digital platforms am I using to give students immediate/timely feedback?
- What digital platforms am I using to give students voice and choice in the classroom?
- What platforms allow students to access the content in different ways and multiple means of representing their learning?
Tools to Support the Principle
Tools to Support the Principle
Booktrack Classroom
Booktrack Classroom
Use Booktrack Classroom to provide students with a contextual soundtrack to their reading, while recognizing that students will benefit from the ambient music and contextual sound effects to help their reading comprehension.
Use Booktrack Classroom to provide students with a contextual soundtrack to their reading, while recognizing that students will benefit from the ambient music and contextual sound effects to help their reading comprehension.
Bookshare
Bookshare
Bookshare® is an ebook library that makes reading easier. People with reading barriers can customize their experience and read in ways that work for them.
Bookshare® is an ebook library that makes reading easier. People with reading barriers can customize their experience and read in ways that work for them.
Crash Course
Crash Course
From courses like Astronomy to US History and Anatomy & Physiology it's got you covered with an awesome variety of AP high school curriculum topics. With various witty hosts at your service, you won't even notice you're getting smarter.
From courses like Astronomy to US History and Anatomy & Physiology it's got you covered with an awesome variety of AP high school curriculum topics. With various witty hosts at your service, you won't even notice you're getting smarter.
Rewordify
Rewordify
Rewordify.com is powerful, free, online software that improves reading, learning, and teaching. This site can:
Rewordify.com is powerful, free, online software that improves reading, learning, and teaching. This site can:
- Intelligently simplify difficult English, for faster comprehension
- Effectively teach words, for building a better vocabulary
- Help teachers save time and produce engaging lessons
- Help improve learning outcomes
Kaizena
Kaizena
Teachers can use Kaizena to manage the entire writing feedback process, from prewriting to publishing. Give students individual multi-modal feedback in Google Docs, hold group or individual conversations about writing projects in the Kaizena web app, track student skills progress, and link students to online lessons that scaffold their learning. Save hours of grading time with Google Classroom integration, which syncs student submissions for seamless assessment.
Use Seesaw assign differentiated based activities that can completed both at home and in class. Activities can also be differentiated by languages.
Use Seesaw assign differentiated based activities that can completed both at home and in class. Activities can also be differentiated by languages.
Seesaw Resources
Seesaw Resources
How Do I Use the Activity Library?
How Does Translation Work in Seesaw?
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