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Learning Outcomes:
Learning Outcomes:
CLO 5253.1 - Offer alternative instructional suggestions and strategies that address the specific needs of California’s diverse student population.
CLO 5253.1 - Offer alternative instructional suggestions and strategies that address the specific needs of California’s diverse student population.
CLO 5253.2 - Identify a clear instructional goal that is related to the English content of the standards.
CLO 5253.2 - Identify a clear instructional goal that is related to the English content of the standards.
CLO 5253.3 - Provide the learning in each instructional year that lays the necessary groundwork for success in subsequent English courses.
CLO 5253.3 - Provide the learning in each instructional year that lays the necessary groundwork for success in subsequent English courses.
CLO 5253.4 - Identify the most successful and efficient approaches within a particular classroom so that learning is maximized.
CLO 5253.4 - Identify the most successful and efficient approaches within a particular classroom so that learning is maximized.
CLO 5253.5 - Assess student progress toward the achievement of English standards and adjust instruction accordingly.
CLO 5253.5 - Assess student progress toward the achievement of English standards and adjust instruction accordingly.
CLO 5253.6 - Balance theory, research, and practice.
CLO 5253.6 - Balance theory, research, and practice.
Essential Questions:
Essential Questions:
1. Differentiated Instruction and Assessment for All Learners
Essential Question:
Shouldn’t the standards and expectations be the same for EVERY student?
Agenda:
-Standards-Based Instruction
-Differentiating Instruction and Assessment
-Providing Accommodations
Information:
Information:
What's the difference between Differentiation and Modification and Accommodation?
The main idea is that not all of us are the same. We pride ourselves in being individuals and respect each others differences, and yet in the classroom, we tend to treat all students as a group. The practicality of this tendency is obvious and natural. Our society, school, and parents expect teachers to provide a predetermined set of material (usually too much) to our classes. When we have been given this responsibility, the most efficient way is to move them through the material as a group. In fact the entire classroom is set up to do just that. Everyone is given a place to work. Everyone has access to the same material. Everyone is given one period in which to do this. Everyone has one academic year to complete the task. Everyone is judged/evaluated by the same grading system.
For me, differentiation is mostly an appropriate way to approach the same material for students who struggle with the acquisition of materials from the traditional way. For example, a typical classroom presentation may be comprised of a set of slides that accompanies a lecture, and the students are expected to take notes. However, there may be students who are struggling with notetaking. An appropriate modification might be to provide these students with a set of notes ahead of the lecture. It could require these students to make further notations to help keep them engaged. Here are ways to differentiate. : Scholastic, Prodigy Edutopia, Concordia - Portland, and Education Week.
Of what does this chart remind you?
Modifications and Accommodations are adaptations. According to Eric Strom, who writes on behalf of Understood, a website dedicated to helping parents and student who struggle with learning, "Accommodations change how a student learns the material. A modification changes what a student is taught or expected to learn. Here are examples to help explain the differences between them." See this helpful chart.
2. Communicating and Collaborating with Other Professionals and Families
Essential Questions:
Why should teachers collaborate?
How much communications with students’ families is needed?
Agenda:
Information:
The glory and detriment to teaching is what happens after the doors close and class begins. It's glorious because even if you have a pacing guide and prescribed curriculum, all the students are under your direction. They are all yours! The detriment is that this can be very isolating and lonely. Some teachers go through their entire career trying to minimize contact with the outside. There is much danger to this. The assumption of these teachers is that they have all the answers and that there isn't much left for them to learn or gain. They're well educated and "what else is there to learn?", they ask themselves.
The glory and detriment to teaching is what happens after the doors close and class begins. It's glorious because even if you have a pacing guide and prescribed curriculum, all the students are under your direction. They are all yours! The detriment is that this can be very isolating and lonely. Some teachers go through their entire career trying to minimize contact with the outside. There is much danger to this. The assumption of these teachers is that they have all the answers and that there isn't much left for them to learn or gain. They're well educated and "what else is there to learn?", they ask themselves.
Other teachers can be your life-life. If not for content of what you are teaching, then for an understanding shoulder.
Other teachers can be your life-life. If not for content of what you are teaching, then for an understanding shoulder.
"All parents do is complain," is the assumption. And there is much complaining, particularly if you are new to the profession Here's a good article for new teachers and communicating with parents. I STRONGLY recommend that you put as much of your class online as possible. Why? Your webpages communicate 24/7. Many of the questions your students and parent have are on your webpages. What's the homework? How pages is the essay supposed to be? What chapter are we supposed to read? Et cetera.
"All parents do is complain," is the assumption. And there is much complaining, particularly if you are new to the profession Here's a good article for new teachers and communicating with parents. I STRONGLY recommend that you put as much of your class online as possible. Why? Your webpages communicate 24/7. Many of the questions your students and parent have are on your webpages. What's the homework? How pages is the essay supposed to be? What chapter are we supposed to read? Et cetera.
My phone calls and notes from parents nearly disappeared when I put everything online. (See www.genconnection.com ) Not all parents are complainers, in fact, they are on your side and want a meeting to enlist your help in making your recalcitrant student do better in your classroom. Most of my requests for parental meetings are that way. I almost always insist that the student be present. After all, it is about them.
My phone calls and notes from parents nearly disappeared when I put everything online. (See www.genconnection.com ) Not all parents are complainers, in fact, they are on your side and want a meeting to enlist your help in making your recalcitrant student do better in your classroom. Most of my requests for parental meetings are that way. I almost always insist that the student be present. After all, it is about them.
A simple proactive email is often all that is needed to assuage a difficult situation. I advise to use your email as much as possible. There is a "paper" trail. After a phone, if could be "I said/You said," but an email is unambiguous. (I never delete emails, except for spam- ever).
A simple proactive email is often all that is needed to assuage a difficult situation. I advise to use your email as much as possible. There is a "paper" trail. After a phone, if could be "I said/You said," but an email is unambiguous. (I never delete emails, except for spam- ever).
Assignments:
• Due – Video UDL & Reflection
• Read & Discuss
-Vaughn, Bos, Schumm, Ch. 12: Differentiating Instruction and Assessment for All Learners
-Vaughn, Bos, Schumm, Ch. 3: Communicating and Collaborating with Other Professionals and Families
Next Steps:
Next Steps:
Your 2 videos and Reflections are coming due
Your 2 videos and Reflections are coming due
SDAIE & Reflection in your Lesson Plan - next week! (see instructions for video)
SDAIE & Reflection in your Lesson Plan - next week! (see instructions for video)
Veteran Teacher Observation - Narrative Write up
Veteran Teacher Observation - Narrative Write up
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