Blog #5 UDLs, Assessment, and How to Be Inclusive

Discuss the value of formative and summative assessment in a diverse learner's classroom. Both have a place in education, and when dealing with the needs of all learners, it is very important to know the difference and be able to implement both in your curriculum. Discuss how you plan to have an inclusive classroom with kids who are impoverished, apathetic, on IEPs for various needs, ADHD/ADD, etc. How does all of this fit into the Universal Design for Learning? Be sure to address as much of this as possible! Blog by Friday, if possible, and respond to your compass group members by class on Monday, Oct. 6th.

Blog #4 Formative vs. Summative Assessment

Discuss the differences between Formative and Summative assessment (do a little research if you need to)? If you had to break it down into more workable terms, how would you define the two? Why are both important? Discuss what you learned, how you feel this idea affects students of varying needs/learning styles/disabilities, and the pitfalls of doing too much or too little of one or both. Discuss how it has felt to evaluate one another! Blog by Thursday, 9/24 and respond by class time Monday, 9/28.

Blog #3 Assessing and Evaluating in Learning Different Environments

You have now applied various types of learning and teaching:

• Creating learning styles activities
• Jigsawing
• Whiteboarding
• Evaluating one another 

Now that you are really delving into evaluating and assessing activities and one another, consider how you will accommodate peer evaluation in your classroom. How will or did activities like learning strategies, jigsawing, whiteboarding, and even the Leadership Compass open your eyes to how differently we all learn and interact with the concept of learning? How important is it to let students play a role in assessment (whether peer assessing, creating their own learning strategy activities, or even writing their own quizzes)? 
 Blog by Sunday night, and respond to your compass group classmates by class time on Monday, Sept. 14th.

Blog #2 Jigsawing, Whiteboarding, Learning Strategies, Oh My!

Blog #2 
React to how this style of learning (jigsawing, whiteboarding, the various learning strategy activities you're creating, even the idea of small group whiteboarding before whole group sharing) could help kids of all needs. Think of various types of special needs kids and address at least 3 different types for your blog (examples: gifted kids, those who are ADHD or ADD, apathetic, someone who is visual vs. auditory, ODD, struggling reader, dyslexic, etc.). Blog by Monday, Sept. 7^th; respond to each of your compass group members by Wednesday, Sept. 9^th