Part I
How will you approach meeting the needs of as many
different learners as possible? In other words, how will you vary your
instruction to accommodate to the wide array of students you will have? Keep in
mind, students will remember about 18% of what they hear and see in a lecture.
Yet they will remember over 90% of what they apply and synthesize. So talk
about how you will use various strategies, diversify your lessons, and meet the
needs of different learners each day.
Part II
Accommodations: The most important students you
will accommodate for are the ones most impacted by that day's lesson. For
example, if you're doing a very sedentary activity, you need to accommodate for
ADD, ADHD, behaviorally challenged kids, and maybe a child with Tourette's. If
you're doing a really active lesson, you might need to accommodate a shy
student, an apathetic one, an autistic child, a behaviorally challenged
student, a child in a wheelchair, etc. So in your area and the kinds of lessons
you know it involves, what kids will you most likely have to accommodate for?
HOW will you accommodate and adapt for them? Think realistically...you won't
have extra people, you won't send them to someone else, YOU have to make
adaptations in your classroom. Also keep in mind that MOST of our kids have
some need for accommodation.
Part III
Website: How does creating online/having a website
accommodate learners? How can this assignment be an accommodation just by
itself? In what ways can/will you use the digital/web landscape to meet the needs
of today's learners? Over 78% of today's K-12 students spend more time online
than with their families (whether playing games, in school, listening to music,
watching YouTube, on Facebook). Knowing that, how will you implement their web
presence in your teaching? (Because many of you will be teaching in 1:1
classrooms!)
Address each Part in your post specifically and
separate them so readers know what you're talking about. You may simply use
these headers for your own post if you'd like. As responders, feel free to
respond to one part or all three. Your preference. My goal is to start the
conversation! Please post by Sunday Nov. 29th and respond to classmates
by Friday, Dec. 4th.
PART 1: I think it's definitely important to build a sense of community in a classroom so each student will understand how another student learns. Building this community will also help me vary my instruction to better help each student. To build a community they have to work together, so I think a lot of "think, pair, sharing" and collaboration will help, I've seen students share Google Slides with their laptops that way those students who don't do well in groups they would still be working in a group but they would be using their own device.
ReplyDeletePART 2: ADD and ADHD will possibly be most common. An accommodation I would have to make is Struggling Reader and possibly Gifted, with the exceptions of other exceptionalities as well. For a struggling readers I could use some kind of Audio book with their device, I could allow more time for reading, if they had to read a book I would try to pick out or suggest a graphic novel for the student. A gifted student I could ask them to help other students, but only if their work is 100% correct and I would see if they could make it better before they could help others. If it comes to some kind of game we are playing as a class I could ask them to keep a tally or score of everyone in the class. Although these are only a few accommodations, there are many more that cannot be ignored.
PART 3: Well I was trying to make my website humorous because I feel like I know how to make people laugh. Students who look at my website will be able to know who I am, what I like to do, what I have done, and what I plan to do. I think this would be a cool idea for a shy students because building a website could allow them to open themselves to their classmates or it could allow a technologically savvy student to show their skills by creating a project. A website can be done so many ways it almost can accommodate every student. I'm not a savvy person with technology, so it always impresses me that children you are a lot younger than me can do so much. I think showing that I am impressed will in turn make them enthusiastic about being in my class.
I agree that building and having a sense of community in the classroom is vital to teachers because it sort of sets the tone for the rest of the year and can determine how students treat one another. I also like the methods you used in part one, and will remember to incorporate those in my teaching styles for the future. I also think it is a good idea to have those students who know what they are doing to help some of the struggling students complete and understand what is being taught. I think it is creative how you made your website to be funny and positive for those who see and read it.
DeletePart 1: I will approach meeting the needs of various learners by doing more hands on activities with the lessons so that the students can better get a feel of what they have to do and how to complete the work. Some strategies that i might use to diversify my lessons include popcorn reading where students take turns reading aloud. In my classroom i will incorporate using socratic seminar style for discussions on assignments to help the students better understand what they will be learning about. Another way that i will diversify my lessons is to allow the students to have a say about what they want to learn and allow group work as much as possible. Periodically i will ask questions and use an online game app for mini quizzes to make sure they remember what they learned and what we talked about.
ReplyDeletePart 2: Also, i will make sure that whatever activity or lesson we may do as a class that there be different stations or points around the room for the ADHD or ADD students won't be bored or tempted to get off track. These students along with those with behavioral issues will be sitting in the front to avoid getting into trouble. Having assigned seats after the first few weeks will be helpful to me because i can separate the trouble makers from the behaved ones, in hope of limiting distractions and helping them to pay attention to what is being taught.When we begin any lesson i will provide handouts and a visual either on the board or promethean board for those with visual problems and assigning those students to seats toward the front. Again, there will be group work so that those who are shy or afraid to talk in front of others can be assigned a job that requires them to do something else. For the apathetic student, i will make sure they have a reason to be interested in what is being taught by assigning them a study budy or simply letting them pass things out. Students who may have reading problems will be assigned a reading buddy to help them be able to comprehend what they read in addition to a paper with words on it that are part of the text and shows that student how to pronounce the words.
Part 3: Having a website accommodates learners by giving them easy access to why i want to teach, what i will be teaching about and even the class agenda. It will give students and other administrators insight to who i am, a little of my background and a sample of my first lesson plan. I can use the digital/web landscape to meet the needs of today's learners by putting up the lesson or activity online so that if they missed class or could not come in that day, they can access it on the class webpage for directions on what to do along with the activity as an attachment that can be printed out. Also, by using this webpage design in the classroom, i can make it to where for certain assignments they would have to upload their work online so that i can count it as a grade and see who turned in the assignment.