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Jenny Mathiesen

Looking for Lincoln Throughout His Life | PBS LearningMedia - 2 views

    • Jenny Mathiesen
       
      This fits the standard 3G because the teachers is asking the students what their thoughts are about Lincoln. The teachers gets to know the students a bit because it is about getting the students ideas and there's no right or wrong answer.
  • Culminating Activity: Creating a Personal Timeline Review the Lincoln timeline that students assembled at the beginning of the lesson. Point out that each event has a date, as well as information and a picture about that date. Remind students that the timeline begins with the earliest date and goes until the most recent date. Explain to students that it is now their turn to make a timeline about their own lives. Ask them to think about two important things that have happened to them in their lives. Ask for some volunteers to share this information. (Some possible answers: the day they were born; going on a fun vacation; learning to play an instrument; getting a special gift; starting school; making a new friend; etc.) Hand out blank sheets of paper to each student. (Hand out 1 sheet of paper for each student creating a timeline online and distribute 3-4 sheets for each student creating a timeline by hand.). Ask each student to write down the two events that they thought of on a sheet of paper. Now ask them to think of 4 more important things that have happened to them in their lives and to write those down, as well. Ask students to create a timeline on which to put these events. Creating timelines by hand: Ask students to draw a line from left to right across the middle of their paper. Then ask them to draw small vertical lines to indicate important years in their lives. To create a longer timeline, students can tape 2-3 pieces of paper end to end and then draw a horizontal line across all the sheets. Creating online timelines: Direct students to the “Timeline Generator” at TeAch-nology.com (Note: Instruct them to scroll to the bottom of the page to see the timeline tool.) Ask students to put their 6 events in chronological order in their timelines, starting with the earliest event and ending with the most recent. If students are using the online timeline tool, ask them to print out their timelines once they have finished. Encourage all students (whether creating a timeline by hand or on the computer) to draw/paste images or photographs to go along with each event. After students have completed their individual timelines, ask for volunteers to explain/ present their timelines to the group.
    • Jenny Mathiesen
       
      This supports standard 7I because the students take the learning about Lincoln and create their own timeline about their own lives.
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  • After the segment, bring out the drawn outline of the hat. Ask students to tell you some facts that they learned about Lincoln in the video. Write the facts (or ask students to write the facts) on the hat. (Some possible answers: Abraham Lincoln worked as a congressman in Washington for one term; he returned to Illinois in 1849 to practice law; he was a father; had 2 children; he needed to earn a living; he educated himself; he read; he taught himself Euclidian geometry; he traveled with other lawyers, judges and sheriffs to different county courthouses; made close friendships; his time working as a lawyer was an important time in his life; the courthouses that Lincoln worked in are now tourist attractions; he was involved in over 5,000 court cases; he took almost any case.)
    • Jenny Mathiesen
       
      This section could support 4E if the teacher is purposeful to create/develop the conversation to not just explain terms used but connect the events in Lincoln's life to lives of the students in the classroom. It doesn't specifically call out to do this, so the teacher would need to KNOW to actively do this during the lesson.
  • Ask students to think about and discuss the following question with their group: If someone wanted to learn about this class just by viewing 5 things in this classroom, what 5 things would you select for him or her to view? What could he/she learn about the class from each object? Once they have selected 5 objects, each group should complete one Our Things Student Organizer for each object. Students should write down the name and/or draw a picture of the object and write a brief description of what someone could learn from viewing that object. (For example, a dictionary- shows that they can read and like to find out about new words, etc.) As an alternative to this activity, students can describe 5 items from their home that tell a story about their family.
    • Jenny Mathiesen
       
      This supports 7I because it does a great job of connecting the lesson to the lives of the students and invites them to express themselves in the same way they did as a class about Lincoln. The teacher will get to know the students in fun and deep ways with this lesson!
  • Ask: What is one type of job that you think he had before becoming President?
ashleydoucette91

What Makes a Family? | Learning for Justice - 1 views

  • small group, ask students to brainstorm
    • ashleydoucette91
       
      This is an example of 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." Grouping the students in pairs or small groups allows for more time and for students to be comfortable sharing their thinking and experiences with one another. This elicits students to share their own thoughts.
  • Have them describe different family make-ups
    • ashleydoucette91
       
      This is another example of 3G. Students will be most likely to talk about what they have at home first. By eliciting students share with one another, they bring new experiences to the discussion.
  • Ask students what a biography is
    • ashleydoucette91
       
      This is an example of 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" Students knowledge of what a biography is will be influenced by their previous knowledge.
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  • brainstorm a list of questions
    • ashleydoucette91
       
      Another example of 4E. The list of questions students brainstorm will be based on what they may already know or not know about Michael Oher and his life.
  • share their opinions
    • ashleydoucette91
       
      Another example of 3G eliciting students to share their thinking.
  • students work with a small team to give an oral presentation
    • ashleydoucette91
       
      An example of 7I. - "support and expand learner expression in speaking, writing, and other media" Having small student teams give an oral presentation about what they learned shows how they have expanded their learning. Prompting them to think about new things they learned and built upon previous knowledge. Speaking for a presentation is an appropriate medium for this.
  • Draw the outline of a tree on chart paper
    • ashleydoucette91
       
      Another example of 7I. Allowing the students to create a visual representation to support and expand all students' knowledge.
  • every student in the class create illustrations
    • ashleydoucette91
       
      Another example of 7I. This allows students to express their knowledge in a different(visual) medium.
  • share their illustrations
    • ashleydoucette91
       
      Example of 7I.
  • write an acrostic poem using the word FAMILY.
    • ashleydoucette91
       
      This is another example of 7I. It allows students to express themselves in a way that isn't always thought of. This could be shared in either written or oral form.
clwisniewski

Accommodations & Modifications - Teaching Students with Visual Impairments - 2 views

  • Accommodations do not reduce grade level standards but rather help provide access to the course content. They do not alter the amount or complexity of the information taught to the student. Accommodations are changes in the program from a way things are typically done so that a student with a disability can have equal opportunity to participate and allow the student to be successful. These changes do not substantially or fundamentally lower or alter the standards.
    • sadielaurenn
       
      A group thing to remember, not only with this impairment, but when making all accommodations.
  • Be based on current individualized needs;Reduce the effect of the disability to access the current curriculum;Be specific about where, when, who and how the accommodations will be provided;Include current input from parents, teachers, student, and therapists;Be based on current specific needs in each content area.
    • sadielaurenn
       
      Again, great to remember with all accommodations!
  • Changes in the medium used:braillelarge printaudiotapeelectronic textoral testing/scribing Changes made in the way materials are presentedCopies of overhead projector/smartboard activities to be viewed at his/her desk as needed.The teacher or presenter should verbalize all information as it is written on the board or overhead. Information presented on the board should be in a high contrast color. Use a slant-board to position papers appropriately for reduced visual strain and to avoid glare.The computer screen should be eye level and tilted to avoid glare.Use recorded text as needed.Classroom recording of lectures/instruction by the student.Large Print textbooks/materials.Braille textbooks/materials.Clear, dark copies of worksheets.Use of a reading guide to assist in keeping place while reading and completing worksheets.Present materials against a plain backgroundUse a good contrast background and present on a contrasting tray or mat. Time requirements:Time and a half or double timeConsideration for the student's reading/writing speedConsideration for the time needed to use adaptive equipmentConsideration for eye fatigue and scanning ability Changes in the way students demonstrate learningModified assignments (when appropriate and needed) to accommodate visual fatigue (extended time and/or shortened amount of assignments).Avoid activities requiring extensive visual scanning.Avoid visually cluttered materials.Allow students to use (bold marker, 20/20 pen, mechanical pencil, or another unique writing tool) to complete assignments.Use of bold line paper.Use of raised line paper.Abbreviated homework assignment (includes all concepts, just fewer items).Shorter written assignment.Oral testing. Changes in Setting: preferential seating in the classroom for all films, assemblies and demonstration lessons.seated facing away from windows.permission to move about the room as needed to see information presented away from his/her desk. Changes in the Setting: EnvironmentAvoid glare in general from overhead lights. Consider placing light filters on fluorescent lights.Open and close doors fully (a half-open door can be a dangerous obstacle).Eliminate unnecessary background noise. Consider isolation headphones.Eliminate clutter from the room, particularly in aisles and movement paths.Place materials in consistent places so that students know where particular items are always located.Preferential locker position and locks with keys vs. combination locks.Use of task lighting as needed.
    • sadielaurenn
       
      An INCREDIBLE list of accommodations that are available when/if working with a student that has a visual impairment
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  • Modifications lower the learning expectations and should only be used if this is the only way for the student to be successful. Parents must understand if modifications to grade level standards are being made, their child may be at risk for not meeting graduation requirements.
    • clwisniewski
       
      Important to remember! We can make accommodations for students, but not to change the expectations unless approved by the school
  • Reducing assignments so a student only completes the easiest problems;Altering assignments to make them easier;Requiring a student to learn fewer materials that are required by the State's academic content standards; Providing help to a student via hints or clues to the correct answers on assignments and tests.
    • clwisniewski
       
      If we have a visually impaired student that needs modifications, these are ways to help, which can be indicated on their IEP
angieharris

Exploring Gender Stereotypes in Stories | Learning for Justice - 1 views

  • Explain to students that they are going to write a profile of a character who stands up against gender stereotypes. Provide students with the appropriate graphic organizers and have them work independently to begin developing their characters.
    • angieharris
       
      This demonstrates 7I - "support and expand learner expression in speaking, writing, and other media" because students are writing a profile of a character who stands up against gender stereotypes, it expands their learning through critical thinking in developing a character with this in mind.
  • As you read, stop to elicit student responses to the question: What personality traits and behaviors show us that this character rejects gender stereotypes? Chart student responses. When you are finished reading, help students look back over the list they have come up with. Ask how it feels to read about a character who stands up to so many gender stereotypes.
    • angieharris
       
      This demonstrates 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" because students would have prior knowledge in how they think of gender roles through their family/cultural experiences. This could be through toys they have been bought (dolls/toy cars), family roles within the household (who cooks/who does yard work), the clothes they wear, etc.
  • Come together to allow students to share observations. Ask students how they think children’s book authors might contribute to the construction of gender, and challenge students to question whether this is fair.
    • angieharris
       
      This demonstrates 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" because students work with a partner to observe what they see in picture books about gender stereotypes and then they come together as a group to share ideas with each other about what they discovered. Students are then asked to think about if the construction of gender is fair. The group interaction helps them learn from each other.
Bill Olson

Three Reasons Students Should Own Your Classroom's Twitter and Instagram Accounts | EdS... - 0 views

  • When we allow students to write and share their work with the world, suddenly their work becomes more valuable. Students will always do their worst writing when they know the only person who will ultimately view it is their teacher. How many assignments in classrooms are completed solely for teacher as a requirement of the curriculum?
  • Within the past few years, this idea of branding our schools/classrooms has become extremely valuable, as it promotes transparency by painting an accurate, live picture of what is taking place. Yet, in reality, the majority of the time the educators are the ones telling these stories. While this certainly has its place, ultimately what matters most is how students feel about their experiences. Social media has allowed my students to share our classroom happenings through their eyes. It has allowed my students the opportunity to both establish and share the culture of our classroom and our school, and ultimately create our “brand”.
  • Social media is happening—with or without you. The lessons my students learn by taking ownership of social media ends up enhancing all of their work, both in and out of school. And let’s be honest… wouldn’t you prefer to have your students write the story of your classroom, rather than someone else?
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    "To take this a step further, I also had parents come in one night to complete the boot camp, as well. That's right-a parent social media bootcamp, where my students were the teachers, helped their parents get set up with accounts, and taught them about everything from retweets to our district hashtags."
clwisniewski

Visual impairment in the classroom - 0 views

  • Visual impairment in the classroom
    • sadielaurenn
       
      Another great classroom resource!
  • Visual cues are central to most early childhood education systems.
    • sadielaurenn
       
      This is incredibly true, almost every lesson we will teach have some aspect of a visual. How will we accomplish our lessons without visuals?
  • In a school environment, visual impairments can cause difficulties when it comes to traditional reading and writing activities, reading at a distance, distinguishing colors, recognizing shapes and participating in physical education games which require acute vision, such as softball and kickball.
    • sadielaurenn
       
      Prior to research, when I heard "vision impairment" I would typically think of someone who is blind. Throughout researching this disability I have realized that it is so much more. Something as simple as needing glasses for being near sided or far sided is consider a vision impairment.
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  • Tips for teachers working with students who are visually impaired
    • sadielaurenn
       
      Below are some very basics tips to help accommodate your visually impaired students.
  • Children and adults with low vision are not considered legally blind, they simply have reduced vision at or lower than 20/70. Students who are blind have vision that is at or lower than 20/200. Nonetheless, only 15% of students with visual impairments are considered to be completely blind, with no light or form perception ability
    • clwisniewski
       
      An interesting statistic!
  • Children with visual impairments often start off learning to read and write with the assistance of low-tech solutions, such as high-intensity lamps and book-stands. Sometimes screen magnification and computer typing and reading programs are used. In other cases, low vision students will learn to read using the Braille system over text, or a combination of the two. However, as students progress through early grade levels and reading and writing activities become more demanding, periodic literacy skills assessment is required to ensure additional resources and adaptive strategy instruction are provided to meet their needs.
    • clwisniewski
       
      It's good to continue assessing visually impaired students in case they need further assistance.
  • For those students with visual impairments who do not master Braille, making use of technology to facilitate reading is fundamental. In fact, most talented Braille readers prefer to use computers or tablets when reading for fun anyway. And students who learn to use a computer not only find homework easier to complete, but often become faster readers. It is simply more efficient for low vision students to use a computer and word-processor over reading paper books and handwriting. This is particularly relevant at a high-school level, when reading and writing assignments become lengthier and more challenging.
    • clwisniewski
       
      This could be included in a student's IEP, so they have access to a device that can assist them with reading and writing.
Bill Olson

Critical pedagogy: schools must equip students to challenge the status quo | Teacher Ne... - 0 views

  • The pedagogy popularised by E.D.Hirsch, and recently promoted by the likes of Civitas, reduces teaching into nothing more than a bleak transmission model of learning.
  • "cultural literacy".
  • But Hirsch's "cultural literacy" is a hegemonic vision produced for and by the white middle class to help maintain the social and economic status quo.
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  • Young people who enter the educational system and don't conform to this vision are immediately disadvantaged by virtue of their race, income or chromosomes.
  • Moreover, teaching a prescribed "core knowledge" instills a culture of conformity and an insipid, passive absorption of carefully selected knowledge among young people.
  • The narcissistic notion that we can help underprivileged students by providing them with teachers who are privileged young graduates from elite institutions is a mistake.
  • Teachers can't ignore the contexts, culture, histories and meanings that students bring to their school.
  • Working class students and other minority groups need an education that prepares them with the knowledge of identifying the problems and conflicts in their life and the skills to act on that knowledge so they can improve their current situations.
  • School leaders have a duty to promote learning that encourage students to question rather than forcing teachers to lead drill-oriented, stimulus-and-response methodologies.
  • Students need the freedom and encouragement to determine and discover who they are and to understand that the system shouldn't define them – but rather give them the skills, knowledge and beliefs to understand that they can set the agenda.
  • The philosophy was first described by Paulo Freire and has since been developed by the likes of Henry Giroux, Peter McLaren and Roger Simon. Critical pedagogy isn't a prescriptive set of practices – it's a continuous moral project that enables young people to develop a social awareness of freedom. This pedagogy connects classroom learning with the experiences, histories and resources that every student brings to their school. It allows students to understand that with knowledge comes power; the power that can enable young people to do something differently in their moment in time and take positive and constructive action.
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    This article is an opinion piece about why critical pedagogy is important to teach to students. What do you think the best way to support your underprivileged students is?
jkolodji

Why Are Gifted Programs Needed? | National Association for Gifted Children - 1 views

  • Gifted Programs Need
    • nikkilh
       
      The need for gifted programs
  • Gifted programming positively influences students’ futures. Several longitudinal studies have shown that gifted programs have a positive effect on students’ post-secondary plans.
  • Further benefits of gifted programs have been shown to include that students who had participated in gifted programs maintained their interests over time and stayed involved in creative productive work after they finished college and graduate school.
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  • Additionally, gifted students need gifted programming in many cases because the “general education program is not yet ready to meet the needs of gifted students” (p. 9) due to lack of general educators’ training in gifted education and the pressure classroom teachers face to raise the performance of their struggling students. [2
    • drewevanaho
       
      lack of training
  • According to one report on high-achieving students, more than 7 in 10 teachers of these students surveyed noted that their brightest students were not challenged or given a chance to “thrive” in their classrooms.
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    The advantages of challenging gifted students in stats and evidence.
emerickjudy

https://dyslexiaida.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/DITC-Handbook.pdf - 0 views

  • So how can you help?
  • Listening to children’s feelings.
  • Rewarding effort, not just “the product.”
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  • Helping students set realistic goals for themselves.
  • it is critical that school personnel, parents, and outside professionals working with the child with dyslexia communicate on an on-going basis to provide the support needed,
  • Accommodations Involving Materials
  • The teacher can help by underlining or highlighting the significant parts of the directions.
  • tear pages from workbooks and materials to present small assignments to students
  • a blank sheet of paper can be used to cover sections of the page n
  • a blank sheet of paper can be used to cover sections of the page
  • asking them to repeat the directions in their own words.
  • Teachers then must supplement the material with practice activities.
  • a glossary of content
  • A reading guide helps the reader understand the main ideas
    • emerickjudy
       
      Graphic organizers
  • Directions, stories, and specific lessons can be recorded. The student can replay the tape to clarify understanding of directions or concepts.
  • text to speech programs,
  • audio books,
  • Accommodations
  • Accommodations Involving Interactive Instruction
  • Highlight essential information
  • break down the directions into subsets
  • Accommodations
  • Accommodations Involving Student Performance
  • response mode can be changed to underlining, selecting from multiple choices, sorting, or marking.
  • respond on individual chalkboards/whiteboards
  • graphic organizers.
  • graphic organizers
  • lace students close to the teacher.
  • use of assignment books or calendars
  • Have students turn lined paper vertically for math. Lined paper can be turned vertically to help students keep numbers in appropriate columns while computing math problems.
    • emerickjudy
       
      TRY THIS!
  • peer-mediated learning. The teacher can pair peers of different ability levels to review their notes, study for a test, read aloud to each other, write stories, or conduct laboratory experiments. Also, a partner can read math problems for students with reading problems to solve.
  • Students can be allowed to complete projects instead of oral reports or vice versa.
  • Screenings should be used with all children in a school, beginning in kindergarten,
  • There are numerous types of screeners; one simple one we recommend is the Colorado Learning Disabilities Questionnaire – Reading Subscale (CLDQ-R) School Age Screener.
  • School Age Dyslexia Screener – CLDQ-R Please read each statement and decide how well it describes the child. Mark your answer by circling the appropriate number. Please do not leave any statement unmarked. Scoring Instructions: Add up the circled numbers and record that as the Total Score _______________ The following cutoffs apply:  Total Score <16 = Minimal Risk  Total Score 16-21 = Moderate Risk  Total Score >21 = Significant Risk
    • emerickjudy
       
      Scoring Instructions: Add up the circled numbers and record that as the Total Score _______________ The following cutoffs apply:  Total Score 21 = Significant Risk *See Colorado Learning Disabilities Questionnaire for more descriptive results
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    Teacher handbook for dyslexia
chlohawk

12 Team Building Activities for Students - Classful - 0 views

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    Working as a team is a must for some assignments in the classroom and it ultimately is setting students up for team work in their professional futures. Tug of war, worst-case scenario, zoom, and other activities are awesome to use with young and older students.
crispinfletcher

Trauma-Informed Schools | NEA - 7 views

    • crispinfletcher
       
      1 in 5 means any given class there are going to be more then a handful of students with 2 or more ACEs
    • crispinfletcher
       
      What are some key skills and methods to build your teacher toolboxs to help reach all your students?
    • crispinfletcher
       
      video on slide 7 we recommend
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  • adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)
  • One in five U.S. children had two or more ACEs
  • most educators encounter trauma-affected students throughout their careers
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    Hi there, Joe! I'm so glad that you posed this question in response to this great resource. As somebody with several ACEs myself, I think that using a good mix of empathy and sympathy is a great place to start. Put yourself in their shoes and think of what you would have liked for your teacher to have done to help you, whether or not you share that experience with the student. Also, your colleagues are on your team, so pick their brains for what works for them. Lastly, educate yourself and learn about what you can do for your student, and from your student! Sometimes it can be as simple as asking your student what you can do to help and hopefully they could find a way to communicate their needs.
sadielaurenn

5 Effective Strategies for the Inclusive Classroom | KQED Education - 0 views

  • One of the most common accommodations for students with special needs is preferential seating. This doesn’t always mean in the front row of the classroom right next to the teacher’s desk
  • Many general education mainstream students cannot perform the following simple tasks: telling time from an analog clock writing a simple letter signing their name in cursive note taking and study skills
  • Collaborative teaching looks differently depending on what school, level, and setting you are working. I am fortunate enough to work in a school where collaborative teaching is encouraged and celebrated. Teachers have common planning times, and professional development time is often set aside for teachers to plan together.
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  • Posting daily schedules Displaying classroom rules and expectations Encouraging peer to peer instruction and leadership Using signals to quiet down, start working, and putting away materials. Giving students folders, labels and containers to organize supplies. Checking in with students while they work Utilizing proactive rather than reactive interventions as needed Speaking to students privately about any concerns Employing specific, targeted positive reinforcement when a student meets a behavioral or academic goal.
chlohawk

How to Improve Distance Learning for Students With IEPs | Edutopia - 0 views

  • The survey results can be broken down into three overarching themes: parent engagement along with synchronous and asynchronous strategies. The responses uncovered the following best practices to address the needs of students with learning differences.
  • Initial remote IEP meeting:
  • Weekly check-ins:
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  • Goal setting: P
  • Service delivery participation:
  • “Parents seem to be more invested as they take part in their child’s programming,”
  • Parents can see the skills their children are working on and can carry them over more effectively.”
  • increasing engagement during live, virtual, synchronous meetings.
  • IEP goals and objectives may not be the student’s preferred virtual learning activity.
  • Virtual book clubs:
  • Start virtual meetings with a fun, engaging activity:
  • Visuals, routines, schedules:
  • I create individualized weekly schedules for my students,
  • ncluded in these schedules are their assignments and expectations with links to documents, websites, or other materials in a centrally located document. These schedules assist the students and caregivers with pacing, planning, organization, and task completion, among other functional skills.”
  • Movement breaks:
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    Having parents involved, synchronous, and asynchronous strategies can help IEP students during distance learning
Natasha Luebben

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

  • Ask students to define empathy
    • Natasha Luebben
       
      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
       
      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.
    • Natasha Luebben
       
      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
       
      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
       
      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
       
      7I support and expand learner expression in speaking, writing, and other media
julielyncarlson

Students with Down Syndrome in the Classroom - Classful - 2 views

  • A strong preference for visual learning A natural inclination to technology Strong capacity for social understanding and empathy Stead vocabulary acquisition Strong short-term memory Age-appropriate self-help and daily living skills
    • julielyncarlson
       
      Focus on positive attributes to help children achieve!
  • learning challenges
  • Poor auditory memory Hearing and visual weakness Sequencing difficulties Fine motor skills impairment thanks to low muscle tone Brief attention span and distractibility
    • julielyncarlson
       
      challenges to watch for when working with a Down's student.
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  • they often need additional resources outside of the mainstream classroom.
  • Create inclusivity for students with Down Syndrome
  • Build self-esteem
  • Increase attention span
  • Talk clearly
  • Early intervention in preschool for kids with Down syndrome
  • Teaching strategies for students with Down syndromeThe following strategies can help you teach reading to learners with Down syndrome: Capitalizing on the child’s visual-spatial learning style with the help of multimedia teaching resources Keeping instructions well-structured and predictable Incremental teaching, with each lesson building upon what was learned in the previous lesson Breaking reading tasks into manageable pieces with multiple breaks in between Aiding instructions with game-based plays
    • julielyncarlson
       
      Great strategies for students!
  • Does it come with plenty of visual aids and visually-based instructions? Does it have an option for the keyboard instead of handwriting input? Does it include activities and/or modalities to teach specific reading concepts?
  • not all areas of the child’s development are affected by Down syndrome
Kelly Nuthak

Top 10 questions teachers are asked at job interviews | Career advice | The Guardian - 0 views

  • Top 10 questions
  • If I walked into your classroom during an outstanding lesson, what would I see and hear?
  • animated discussions, students clearly making progress as evidenced in oral and written contributions. High quality visual displays of students' work showing progress. High levels of engagement. Behaviour that supports learning."
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  • Can you tell me about a successful behaviour management strategy you have used in the past that helped engage a pupil or group of pupils?
  • expect to hear things like: to improve skills and independent learning; to encourage team work; to gain a qualification; for enjoyment (very important, rarely mentioned); to enhance other subjects; to develop literacy, numeracy and ICT skills; to improve career prospects; self discipline; memory development; to encourage life-long learning in that subject.
  • Why do we teach x in schools?
  • If you overheard some colleagues talking about you, what would they say?
  • Why do you want to work in special education?
  • Why do you want to work in this school?
  • We want to see clear indications that candidates have done background work about our school and can talk about why the way we work appeals to them. We'd always want candidates to have visited the school so they should be able to flesh this out with specific examples of what they thought based on their visit.
  • A question that is specific to the candidate's letter of application
  • What are the key qualities and skills that students look for in teachers?
  • "Liking young people. Fairness. Consistency. Sense of humour. Passion for their subject. Good at explaining new concepts/ideas. Able to make the topic or subject relevant. Able to make everyone feel comfortable and confident about contributing."
  • Evaluate your lesson
  • If we decided not to appoint you, what would we be missing out on?
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    Effective techniques for various grades when working with EBD students. When to ignore, nonverbal signals, touch control, interest boosting, etc. can be helpful
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    President Obama urging students to stay in school. His message to the students.
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    Relationship building strategies for the beginning of the year.
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Paulo Freire | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - 0 views

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  • To promote democratic interactions between people, Freire suggests that teachers problematize the issue being discussed.  When issues or questions are problematized by teachers who work through critical pedagogy, readily made answers are not available.  Students realize that although some questions do have clear-cut answers, many of our deeper questions do not have obvious answers.  When students learn that teachers are human beings just as everyone else, and that teachers do not know everything but that they are also learners, students then feel more confident in their own search for answers and more comfortable to critically raise questions of their own.  The banking method denies the need for dialogue because it assumes that the teacher is the one who possesses all the answers and the students are ignorant and in need of the teachers’ knowledge. In order to problematize a subject, the teacher assumes a humble and open attitude.
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      How could you promote independent problem-solving in the classroom without leading students along the way?
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