GMST513 - Assessment in MST

The IRIS Center is a national center that provides high-quality resources about students with disabilities for college and university faculty and professional development trainers. A great resource for more information about DI.

By Nancy Firchow, M.L.S. The goal for every student is to learn, but not every child learns in the same way. Kids with disabilities may have an especially difficult time with traditional classroom materials. Today, your child's teachers compensate for variation among their students by adapting how they present information, structure assignments, and test for understanding.

Traditionally curricula have been planned for an imaginary "average". This has resulted in inflexible curricula that have not met the needs of most students. In this paper, Meo discusses how to integrate Universal Design for Learning (UDL) into the curriculum planning process to include all students from the start.

This article makes a nice connection between STEM and UDL. It nine pages but an easy read. Some of the information is very basic but could be helpful for some.

This article follow 57 students from 4 different middle school over the course of a school year. The students completed work that was both traditional and UDL based. The article is kind of long but I found it to be pretty interesting.

This website had some examples of UDL based lessons. I found them to be interested and a good template for creating your own UDL lessons.

Thanks Nicki. This site has many useful lessons. I can see ways to use the butterfly lessons with the programs I conduct now.

An interesting perspective on UDL, these seminars align with CCSS and UDL!

This is a PDF I found last year and I really enjoyed reading it! Click on the first link on this Google search for the file.

If you have maybe 10-15 minutes, look through these slides. There are many, but I think you will find some value in the information and the links off of the slides! Some of the information may not be relevant but I enjoyed most of it!

NO. Finally someone in support of the standards!

I actually really enjoyed this website! I do not think standards are necessarily a bad thing as long as they are specific enough for teachers to understand what is expected. I think like we have talked about, PLC are a great way to determine what exactly the standards mean to teachers in a particular school and to teach based around that. I see the standards as guidelines for lessons. Although I am not quite teaching yet and may be missing something, I do not see the standards as THAT bad. The only bad thing is that the standards dictate what is on the state exams and those are bad. This article was interesting to read to see how specfic schools are using their standards to do good in the school.

I am not actually teaching yet either and I often wonder if I am missing something because I also do not feel negatively about the standards. I feel like standards are helpful and it is what we do with those standards as teachers that really make a difference.

I read this article in September and it just made me think about how far creativity in math can go

This article and video was actually interesting to read and watch. I am all about somehow finding a way to express and encourage creativity in any class but especially math class. I however do not see a wrong answer with a good reason behind it as creative. Maybe the reason was creative but then they are taught that they do not really need to know the material as long as they are creative with their explanation. This is a little weird to me. I am all about making mistakes and showing that mistakes and being wrong are NOT bad. However, the mistakes must be used in order to help fix the misunderstanding or else the student is not learning the material. Having a creative mistake and creative reasoning behind that mistake is great and all, but at the end of the day the teacher must find ways to solve this misconception so that the student knows the correct information.

This article is quite lengthy but well worth the read. It's talks about the past, present and future use of technology in education and how teachers can use technology to reach learners 'in the margins' (UDL). If anything, at least read the conclusion!

Wow! I definitely want to take the time to sit down and read the entire article! We so often leave behind those children that are in the margins.

Differentiating Instruction: Meeting Students Where They Are No two students enter a classroom with identical abilities, experiences, and needs. Learning style, language proficiency, background knowledge, readiness to learn, and other factors can vary widely within a single class group. Regardless of their individual differences, however, students are expected to master the same concepts, principles, and skills.

Huge Collection - Instant Lessons View Collection - 50,000+ printables - Save Time! How to Differentiate Instruction Unfortunately, our images of school are almost factory images, so school is very standardized. But kids don't come in standard issue. The challenge is having teachers question the standardized notion of school and then helping kids realize there's a better way to do school.

Middle School students learning about cells' structure and function using standards MS-LS1-1 and MS-LS1-2 Meghan McLellan

Gene Inheritance and Variation

Jessica Swan's UbD Unit Binder on Recycling, Reducing and Reusing

7th Grade Math: Ratios and Proportional Relationships