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Siri Anderson

Paradigms Restrained: Implications of New and Emerging Technologies for Learning and Co... - 1 views

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Instructional Design MediaLiteracy technology cognition critical_thinking objectivism EdPsych Pedagogy

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  • Instructional technology seeks to disprove the idea that "great teachers are born, not made."
  • "Students today can't prepare bark to calculate their problems. They depend on slates, which are more expensive. What will they do when the slate is dropped and it breaks? They will be unable to write." From a Teachers Conference, 1703. "Students today depend on paper too much. They don't know how to write on a slate without getting chalk dust all over themselves. They can't clean a slate properly. What will they do when they run out of paper?" From a principal's publication, 1815. "Students today depend too much on ink. They don't know how to use a pen knife to sharpen a pencil. Pen and ink will never replace the pencil." From the National Association of Teachers Journal, 1907. "Students today depend on store-bought ink. They don't know how to make their own. When they run out of ink they will be unable to write words or cipher until their next trip to the settlement. This is a sad commentary on modern education." From The Rural American Teacher, 1928. "Students depend on these expensive fountain pens. They can no longer write with a straight pen and nib. We parents must not allow them to wallow in such luxury to the detriment of how to cope in the business world, which is not so extravagant." From the Parent Teachers Association Gazette, 1941. "Ballpoint pens will be the ruin of education in our country. Students use these devices and then throw them away. The American values of thrift and frugality are being discarded. Business and banks will never allow such expensive luxuries." From Federal Teachers, 1950.
  • What this suggests is that all technologies, be they things that plug in or advances in thought, have various affordances that make them at times useful and at times not useful. The trick is to figure out what makes them useful in what situations in order to leverage their strengths and avoid their weaknesses.
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  • Organizational instructional strategies are those decisions the instructional designer makes when designing learning activities. The most important of these decisions is how the designer will assist learners to process new information and to process at a deeper level, producing meaningful learning, whether or not a teacher is presen
  • The choice of strategy is based on the designer's belief in the independent existence of knowledge: does it exist without the learner? Which epistemological approach to learning a designer espouses will have great impact on the organizational instructional strategy selected for use.
  • The goal of learning from the objectivist perspective is to communicate or transfer complete and correct understanding to the learner in the most efficient and effective way possible
  • In simple terms, objectivism holds that learners are the passive receivers of knowledge.
  • Cognitivism requires that learners devise methods for learning content.
  • Cognitivism recognizes that most people must develop a method of processing information to integrate it into their own mental models. The most recognizable mechanism in cognitive theory may be the definition of short term and long-term memory, and the need then to devise learner-appropriate methods of moving information from short-term memory to long-term memory. Learners must develop methods to learn how to learn. Consequently, interest in critical thinking skills has become fashionable in education. In terms of what this means for learning, it may be said that the truths are absolute in terms of what people are supposed to learn, but that we provide them latitude in how they arrive at those truths.
  • nchored instruction is simply the idea that learning should be centered on problems.
  • he major differences between objectivism and constructivism involve beliefs about the nature of knowledge and how one acquires it. Objectivists view knowledge as an absolute truth; constructivists are open to different interpretations depending on who is interpreting. Objectivists believe learning involves gaining the answer; constructivists believe that because there are many perspectives, a correct answer is a limiting factor in learning. Constructivists say learning should focus on understanding and it may involve seeing multiple perspectives.
  • Transfer of inert knowledge from one context to another unfamiliar context (i.e. the real world) is difficult and unlikely.
  • Constructivism, described by von Glaserfeld (1977) as an alternate theory of knowing, is the belief that knowledge is personally constructed from internal representations by individuals who use their experiences as a foundation (
  • Cognitive-flexibility theory is centered on "the ability to spontaneously restructure one's knowledge, in many ways, in adaptive response to radically changing situational demands . . .
  • The idea is to allow students to criss-cross the landscape of a content area so that they might have a rich mental model of the domain. The trick is to determine how much complexity a given group of learners is capable of handling without becoming lost or discouraged. A series of scenarios escalating in complexity can usually accommodate most learners.
  • Kurzweil (1999) says there is exponential growth in the rate of exponential growth; examining the speed and density of computation beginning with the first mechanical computers and not just the transistors that Moore used, he concluded that this doubling now occurs every year. He notes that "if the automobile industry had made as much progress [as the computing industry] in the past fifty years, a car today would cost a hundredth of a cent and go faster than the speed of light" (Kurzweil 1999, 25).
  • Already today it is becoming archaic and superfluous to teach facts. Instead, education needs to focus on ways of thinking. In particular, students will need to be able to recognize a problem, determine what information might be needed to solve a problem, find the information required, evaluate the information found, synthesize that information into a solution for the problem, apply the solution to the problem, and evaluate the results of that application
  • By the year 2099 there will no longer be any clear distinction between humans and computers.
  • Siri Anderson on 14 Feb 10
     
    This artcle really struck me in terms of the descriptions of instructional design and the way they influence the type of learning that happens. Much social studies instruction, it seems to me, produces "inert knowledge" which is why most of us can't remember it later. Consider the descriptions I've highlighted of anchored instruction for an alternative approach.
nikkilh

ESL, ELL, or FLNE? How to Describe Students Whose First Language Isn't English. | Ameri... - 0 views

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  • English Learner (EL) and English Language Learner (ELL) These two terms essentially mean the same thing, and they are often used interchangeably.
    • nikkilh
      nikkilh on 29 Jan 22
       
      English Learner (EL) and English Language Learner (ELL) definition
  • Additional terms that have been used to refer to ELLs include limited English proficient (LEP), English as a second language (ESL), and language minority students.
    • nikkilh
      nikkilh on 29 Jan 22
       
      Definition of English as a second language (ESL)
  • Emergent Bilinguals This term promotes the most positive view of English learners by acknowledging their proficiency in another language as a strength, rather than just considering them people who need to learn English or focusing on their limits.
Katelyn Karsnia

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ELL ED3780 Siri ABCSoup

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  • English-language learners, o
  • students who are unable to communicate fluently or learn effectively in English, who often come from non-English-speaking homes and backgrounds,
  • o not have the English-language ability needed to participate fully in American society or achieve their full academic potential in schools and learning environments in which instruction is delivered largely or entirely in English.
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  • fastest-growing segment of the school-age population in the United States, but they are also a tremendously diverse group representing numerous languages, cultures, ethnicities, nationalities, and socioeconomic backgrounds
  • overty, familial transiency, or non-citizenship status,
  • p
  • underperform on standardized tests, drop out of school at significantly higher rates, and decline to pursue postsecondary education.
  • For example, states and national organizations have developed standards to guide curriculum and instruction in English-as a second language programs, while customized teaching and learning materials for English-language learners are now routinely introduced into regular academic courses.
  • Dual-language education
  • English as a second language
  • Sheltered instruction
Natasha Luebben

Developing Empathy through Retold Fairy Tales | PBS LearningMedia - 0 views

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social studies resource

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  • Ask students to define empathy
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      Natasha Luebben on 10 Oct 21
       
      3G: use a student's thinking and experiences as a resource in planning instructional activities by encouraging discussion, listening and responding to group interaction, and eliciting oral, written, and other samples of student thinking
  • After watching the video, discuss the following questions: What was the most memorable moment in the video? Why did that moment have an impact on you?
    • Natasha Luebben
      Natasha Luebben on 10 Oct 21
       
      4E: 4E understand how a student's learning is influenced by individual experiences, talents, and prior learning, as well as language, culture, family, and community values
  • Explore the notion of perspective taking and how it leads to empathy. Ask students, Why is it important both at an individual and a more global level to understand and respect each other’s experiences? (People’s experiences inform their viewpoints.) Have students brainstorm other ways a person can use to become more aware of how another person is feeling, thinking, or behaving and why such insights are important.
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      Natasha Luebben on 10 Oct 21
       
      4E understand how a student's learning is influenced by individual experiences, talents, and prior learning, as well as language, culture, family, and community values
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  • As the groups deepen their understanding of their characters, they should write down or express their ideas through drawings. Circulate among groups and ask guiding questions to help students answer the questions. For example, “What did you read or hear that makes you write/draw that?”
    • Natasha Luebben
      Natasha Luebben on 10 Oct 21
       
      7I support and expand learner expression in speaking, writing, and other media
  • Groups should take a few minutes to share and reflect on their work, either with other groups or as a class. Here are some questions to consider:
    • Natasha Luebben
      Natasha Luebben on 10 Oct 21
       
      7I support and expand learner expression in speaking, writing, and other media
  • After discussing some of the core skills that are needed to be empathetic, present students with their assignment as well as a rubric. Ask them to choose a folk or fairy tale or myth and rewrite it from the perspective of a different character. (They can choose a hero or heroine, but it may be easier to choose the villain.) How would a more empathetic understanding of the character change the narrative? How would it affect the meaning of the story?
    • Natasha Luebben
      Natasha Luebben on 10 Oct 21
       
      7I support and expand learner expression in speaking, writing, and other media
chlohawk

With Boys in Mind / Teaching to the Minds of Boys - ASCD - 1 views

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boys boy-friendly tips classroom

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  • who's perpetually in motion,
  • ho stares into space,
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  • turns in rushed and sloppy work and receives failing grades.
  • By introducing more boy-friendly teaching strategies in the classroom, the school was able to close the gender gap in just one year.
  • he now understands how relevant this focus on action and heroism is to males, and she sees that letting boys write on these topics has improved their papers.
  • he task-oriented discussion and interaction, the physical movement, and the orientation in space access the boys' neurological strengths, keeping them energized and attentive.
  • Realizing the need for nonverbal planning tools, especially in males, to help bridge the gap between what students are thinking and what they're able to put down on paper, Mrs. Johnston now asks Timothy and his classmates to create storyboards, a series of pictures with or without words that graphically depict a story line. T
  • n her 2nd grade classroom, most of the boys read and write about such topics as NASCAR racing, atomic bombs, and football or about such situations as a parrot biting a dad through the lip. Many of the girls write about best friends, books, mermaids, and unicorns.
  • eachers tended to view the natural assets that boys bring to learning—impulsivity, single-task focus, spatial-kinesthetic learning, and physical aggression—as problems. By altering strategies to accommodate these more typically male assets, Douglass helped its students succeed, as the following vignettes illustrate.
  • One of the primary reasons that some boys getDs and Fs in school is their inattention to homework.
  • parents sign homework assignments.
  • One of the innovations that teachers can use in targeted ways in coeducational classes is single-gender grouping.
    • chlohawk
      chlohawk on 03 Sep 21
       
      How and when can I implement one of these strategies in the first week of school with my boy learners?
  • Quite often, boys do their best work when teachers establish authentic purpose and meaningful, real-life connections.
  • chlohawk on 03 Sep 21
     
    Creating a boy-friendly classroom, increasing experiential and kinesthetic learning opportunities, supporting literacy through visual-spatial representations and more strategies can support our boy learners.
drewevanaho

What it Means to Teach Gifted Learners Well | National Association for Gifted Children - 2 views

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Adaptation Gifted 2E

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      drewevanaho on 26 Feb 22
       
      Good teaching of gifted learners comes at a higher degree of difficulty
Siri Anderson

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podcast help tutorial

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  • Siri Anderson on 26 Oct 09
     
    If you want to make podcasts for your learners this is a great tool. Podcasts are super helpful for certain exceptional learners. For instance, record your lectures/directions so they can listen again at home or in the resource room.
emerickjudy

Culturally Responsive Teaching - 1 views

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CRP Culturally relevant pedagogy teaching

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  • concerns that, without the proper guidance, education leaders and individual educators can adopt simplistic views of what it means to teach in culturally responsive ways
  • key scholars and teacher educators Gloria Ladson-Billings, Geneva Gay, and Django Paris
    • emerickjudy
      emerickjudy on 22 Sep 21
       
      How do educators know if students are benefitting from the CRP or CRT approaches utilized in the classroom?
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  • culturally relevant pedagogy to describe a form of teaching that calls for engaging learners whose experiences and cultures are traditionally excluded from mainstream settings
  • First, teaching must yield academic success. Second, teaching must help students develop positive ethnic and cultural identities while simultaneously helping them achieve academically. Third, teaching must support students’ ability “to recognize, understand, and critique current and social inequalities.”
  • Geneva Gay
  • culturally responsive teaching to define an approach that emphasizes “using the cultural knowledge, prior experiences, frames of reference, and performance styles of ethnically diverse students to make learning encounters more relevant to and effective for them.”
  • positive changes on multiple levels, including instructional techniques, instructional materials, student-teacher relationships, classroom climate, and self-awareness to improve learning for students.
  • Like Ladson-Billings, Gay also places a strong emphasis on providing opportunities for students to think critically about inequities in their own or their peers’ experience.
  • Django Paris
  • culturally sustaining pedagogy, an approach that takes into account the many ways learners' identity and culture evolve
juliajohnson00

Storytelling in the Social Studies Classroom | Read Write Think - 1 views

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Lesson Plan Improvments Human Relations Social Studies

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  • tell their own stories and explore the stories of other Americans
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      juliajohnson00 on 27 Sep 21
       
      Standard 3G: use a student's thinking and experiences as a resource in planning instructional activities by encouraging discussion, listening, and responding to group interaction, and eliciting oral, written, and other samples of student thinking. Standard 7I - support and expand learner expression in speaking, writing, and other media
  • A picture can be worth a thousand words, especially when students use this tool to draw them themselves!
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      juliajohnson00 on 27 Sep 21
       
      Standard 7I: support and expand learner expression in speaking, writing, and other media.
  • Engaging students in storytelling activities about themselves, their families, and other Americans is an effective way to pique their interest in social studies.
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      juliajohnson00 on 27 Sep 21
       
      Standard 4E - understand how a student's learning is influenced by individual experiences, talents, and prior learning, as well as language, culture, family, and community values.
Siri Anderson

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PBS Human Relations History primary_sources

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  • ways that we can find out about people, places and events that took place a long time ago
    • Siri Anderson
      Siri Anderson on 30 Sep 21
       
      This is an example of 4E.
    • Siri Anderson
      Siri Anderson on 30 Sep 21
       
      This shows understanding of Standard 4E: "Understand how a students' learning is influenced by individual experiences, talents, and prior learning as well as language, culture, and other samples of student thinking." Asking students to brainstorm about the topic they are about to study activates their prior knowledge so they can potentially make a connection between the new material and what they already know.
  • Discuss the responses with the students
    • Siri Anderson
      Siri Anderson on 30 Sep 21
       
      3G --use a student's thinking and experiences as a resource in planning instructional activities by encouraging discussion, listening and responding to group interaction, and eliciting oral, written, and other samples of student thinking;" By eliciting student voices in a discussion the teacher can understand how they relate to the concepts that are being taught today.
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  • Explain that we can also learn a lot by looking at photographs and drawings from the past.
    • Siri Anderson
      Siri Anderson on 30 Sep 21
       
      This is a little supportive of 4E, by presenting varied nationalities and cultures within the lesson, and encouraging the students to think that they have agency (you can learn alot) to look into their "photographs or drawings from the past" the teacher is demonstrating respect for the diverse backgrounds in the room.
  • would you like to ask
    • Siri Anderson
      Siri Anderson on 30 Sep 21
       
      This is also supporting 3G -- "eliciting student thinking"
  • Ask the groups to compare their photos. Ask them to find at least two things that are similar in the two photos and at least two things that are different.
    • Siri Anderson
      Siri Anderson on 30 Sep 21
       
      This supports standard 7I, "support and expand learner expression in speaking, writing, and other media" because the teacher is scaffolding experiences for the students to talk to and learn from one another.
  • describe the type of information that they were able to discover from looking at the photographs. (What people looked like, what people wore, etc.) Ask students to share some of the questions that they thought about when observing and comparing the photographs.
    • Siri Anderson
      Siri Anderson on 30 Sep 21
       
      Another example of eliciting student thinking, 3G. Also supports speaking 7I.
  • Kristi never met her father’s parents
    • Siri Anderson
      Siri Anderson on 30 Sep 21
       
      This is moderately supportive of 4E. By sharing the story of a person whose family did not have contact the teacher is making more space in the room for learners who also may not have met their grandparents, or parents. ; (
  • Explain to students that different cultures have different ways of passing down information about their past to their children and grandchildren.
    • Siri Anderson
      Siri Anderson on 30 Sep 21
       
      This supports 4E, the teacher is establishing that families have different cultural practices which makes more space in the room for children who may have felt that cultural practices in their own family are "weird." This provides space for "difference" as cool.
  • Encourage students to make something to help keep pictures, drawing, letters, articles and/or other information about them and their families.
    • Siri Anderson
      Siri Anderson on 30 Sep 21
       
      This supports standard 7I. The students are encouraged to express themselves in a media other than writing and speaking.
  • create their own drawings
    • Siri Anderson
      Siri Anderson on 01 Oct 21
       
      This is another example of 7I because the students are expressing themselves in another medium.
  • Siri Anderson on 30 Sep 21
     
    These standards are not at all aligned with this lesson!
chlohawk

To reach girls in classroom, align practices to specific learning needs - kappanonline.org - 1 views

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  • Characteristics of lessons Clear lessons; Lessons relevant to students’ lives; and Collaborative lessons. Particular activities Class discussions; Hands-on; Multimodal; Creativity and the creative arts; and Out-of-class experiences.
  • Among the eight components that we identified as contributing to effective and engaging lessons, the components reflected in the above narrative are relevance to this girl’s life and group collaboration.
  • One central finding of Reichert and Hawley (2010b) is that boys elicit the kinds of teaching they need.
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  • Teachers designed lessons that captured student attention, which led to more meaningful classroom learning. This suggests that girls, like boys, elicit the pedagogy they need, though perhaps without (overtly) displaying resistance to the degree that boys do, and that both male and female teachers of girls are especially attuned to what girls need in terms of pedagogy and activities that maximize girls’ engagement.
    • chlohawk
      chlohawk on 03 Sep 21
       
      How can I work to meet the needs of boys AND girls in my classroom? What are the practices that will enhance the learning of them both without taking away from the other in any way?
  • chlohawk on 03 Sep 21
     
    Relating lessons to real life, having clear lessons that are collaborative, including class discussions, creating hands on activities, including creative arts and out of classroom experiences can better enhance the education of girl learners.
rachaela

Paulo Freire: the pioneer of critical pedagogy | MNP Blog : Maths - No Problem! - 0 views

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ED5780 CriticalPedagogy

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  • Paulo Freire (1921–1997) was a champion of what’s known today as critical pedagogy: the belief that teaching should challenge learners to examine power structures and patterns of inequality within the status quo.
  • Remember that teachers and children are both learners:
  • Develop their critical literacy
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  • Encourage active enquiry and curiosity-lead participation:
  • opening your own eyes to the injustices around us
  • When you start to notice how one dominant group in society may be imposing a culture or worldview on everyone else, you can begin to resist it.
  • Use first names in your school
  • Admit that the teacher doesn’t know everything
  • Give choice
  • Make project work research-oriented
  • Think carefully about texts, clips, and other resources you use
  • Introduce the vocabulary of critical literacy
sherrillk4452

12 Ways to Support English Learners in the Mainstream Classroom | Cult of Pedagogy - 1 views

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ML Learners

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  • Challenging concepts should be
  • diagrammed or supported with pictures
  • Sometimes showing our students what to do is all they need in order to do it,”
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  • mprove comprehension
  • help all of your students grasp concepts better.
  • ELL students,
  • If you really want the kids to learn, they’ve got to be engaged.”
  • where students can practice language with their peers in a more personal, lower-risk setting
  • more small groups,
  • o the strong relationship she had with the regular classroom teachers
  • ESL teachers could regularly get copies of lesson plans or collaborate with regular classroom teachers to build solid back-and-forth support,
  • silent period,
  • Don’t force them to talk if they don’t want to,”
  • ill speak very little, if at all
  • pair him with other students who speak his native language
  • Letting them explain things or ask questions in their first language gets them to relax and feel like a part of the class.”
  • Allow them to write in their first language if they’re able.
  • llows them to still participate in journal writing or a math extended response, even if you can’t read what they write.”
  • consider the whole list of terms you’re going to teach for a unit,
  • Sentence frames
  • I disagree with what _________ said because…
  • Keep these posted in a highly visible spot in your classroom and require students to refer to them during discussions and while they write.
  • as to become a regular part of class
  • Pre-teach
  • The kids feel so empowered if they’ve had a chance to look at the material ahead of time.”
  • aking the time to learn the basics of where a child comes from — exactly, not ‘somewhere in the Middle East/South America/Asia/Africa’ — tells the
  • student that you respect her enough to bother.
  • learn
  • bout students’ religious and cultural practices. If
  • If you anticipate a theme coming up in your class that’s going to be relevant to one of your students, have a conversation with them in advance, or check with your ESL teacher to see if they think it’s appropriate for in-class discussion.
  • By modeling the risk-taking that’s required to learn a new language, you help students develop the courage to take their own risks, and to have a sense of humor about it.
  • ake a conscious effort to see past the accent and the mispronunciations and treat every interaction — every student — with the respect they deserve.
jthrun

Modeling | AFIRM - 0 views

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ASD Autism Evidence based Practice MD Modeling

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      jthrun on 16 Oct 23
       
      one to two-hour module to learn modeling to help learners with ASD acquire and generalize new skills and behaviors.
  • y using modeling (MD), the learner with ASD can acquire and generalize new skills/behaviors. 
  • pplying MD in activity based scenarios that promote real-world application.
nikkilh

Instructional Strategies and Resources * Multilingual Learning Toolkit - 0 views

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Multilingual-learners

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  • What teachers and administrators need to know to best serve Multilingual Learners
  • individual strategies across the different instructional topics are interconnected, and we must implement them together, in a purposeful and connected manner.
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