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Adjust Level of Support Required
Activities to Do Alone
Activities to Do Alone
Paper and/or Digital Materials
Provide check lists, graphic organizers (example), models to support planning and strategy use.
Chunk assignments.
Offer a variety of activities at the child’s independent level. Clearly mark these for families.
Paper Materials:
Provide step by step explicit instructions using video, audio and QR codes. For more Information, see Clarify Instructions.
Offer answer sheets to families so they can check in on progress with students. (TIP: put answer sheets on colored paper for easy identification).
Digital Materials:
Provide step by step explicit instructions by recording via video or audio and adding a link to the top of the assignment. For more information, see Clarify Instructions.
Offer answer sheets to families so they can check in on progress with students. (TIP: put answer sheets in “tips for parents” folder for easy identification).
Opportunity for Self Assessment
Opportunity for Self Assessment
Paper and/or Digital Materials
Offer students the opportunity to set personal learning goals.
Model and make available methods for collecting, charting, and displaying data about progress toward their goals.
Use activities that include a means by which learners get feedback and have access to alternative scaffolds (e.g., charts, templates, feedback displays) that support understanding progress in a manner that is understandable and timely.
Paper Materials
Have students comment on their learning with sticky notes attached to paper materials.
Model use of and provide access to rating scales or rubrics as part of paper materials for students to assess learning.
Digital Materials
Use annotation tools such as in Texthelp PDF Reader or Kami to have a student comment on his/her learning directly on digital materials.
Use exit tickets (e.g. What are 3 interesting facts you learned today?) with Google Forms or Survey Monkey to promote self assessment.
Opportunity for Self Reflection
Opportunity for Self Reflection
Paper Materials
Promote journal writing in a reflection notebook for students to documents their journeys to becoming expert learners.
Provide templates or spaces on assignments for students to complete "think alouds" related to the lesson/topic.
Digital Materials
Promote the use of digital tools for students to document their journeys to becoming expert learners:
vlogs created with smartphone, tablet, or screencasting tools (e.g. Screencastify, Screencast-O-Matic, Kami, Flipgrid, Seesaw)
After 5pm: Follow Up
After 5pm: Follow Up
Paper Materials
Provide office hours in the evening for families/learners who may have been working during the day. (Video: Three Ways to Hold Virtual Office Hours in Schoology)
Digital Materials
Use Alexa, smartphone app, ,time Provide office hours in the evening for families/learners who may have been working during the day. (Video: Three Ways to Hold Virtual Office Hours in Schoology)
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