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Strategies for Inclusive Classrooms: across grades,
across curriculum Bulkley Valley
April 28/29, 2014
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Learning Intentions • I can iden?fy aspects of quality teaching in my prac?ce.
• I can plan with ALL in mind.
• I have a plan to try something new to me in my classroom.
• I have a plan to share with someone else.
Big Ideas of our work together
– Teaching counts! • Our instruc?onal choices impact significantly on student learning
• We teach responsively
– All kids can learn and we know enough collec?vely to teach all kids! • An unwavering belief that everyone has the right to be included socially, emo?onally, and intellectually
• We need to be opening our doors to each other and learning from each other’s strengths
Something I have recently learned from a colleague that has a strengths-based focus
The teeter totter
kids
kids curriculum
Universal Design for Learning Mul?ple means: -‐to tap into background knowledge, to ac?vate prior knowledge, to increase engagement and mo?va?on
-‐to acquire the informa?on and knowledge to process new ideas and informa?on
-‐to express what they know.
Rose & Meyer, 2002
Access
not accommodate or adapt
Backwards Design • What important ideas and enduring understandings do you want the students to know?
• What thinking strategies will students need to demonstrate these understandings?
McTighe & Wiggins, 2001
A Primary Writing Prompt: the grab bag
• 4 items in a bag, kids with a paper with 4 boxes
• Pull out 1 item at a ?me, explore how it might be used in a story
• Kids draw how the item might be used • Repeat with each item with kids drawing both items in 2nd box, …
• In 4th box, either draw all 4 items or begin to write their story
Both lessons: 75 minutes, aZer lunch
• Mundy Road with Kris?ne Wong – Focus on beginning, middle, end
• 9 EAL students • 1 very young student
• Blakeburn with Lori Clerkson – Focus on story starters, moving beyond ‘I did, I did, I did…”
Teresa Monkman and Elaina Devison
Gr 9 English Smithers Secondary
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Increasing engagement and oral language
• Heritage Woods Secondary with Lauren O’Leary in grade 11 physics
• Groups of 4 • Building background knowledge:
– Ques?on – Spring scale
• Created defini?on together • Think aloud with formula • One/two class prac?ce problems with think aloud • Try more prac?ce problems in pairs or independently • Individual feedback • Ticket out the door: Learning outcome for closure: I can
apply Fg = m*g and explain my thinking
• What is mass? • What is weight?
• What is the difference between the two?
• Mass – Mamer – how much stuff we are made up of – Scalar (no direc?on) – Constant – Measured in kg
• Weight – Vector (has direc?on) – Depends on where you are in the universe -‐ force of gravity
– Measured in Newtons
PLO: Solve a variety of problems involving the rela?onship between mass, gravita?onal field strength, and force due to gravity.
Learning Goal: Understand the conceptual side and apply it.
Teaching Goal: Make lesson accessible and interac?ve.
Fg = m*g
Expand the sentence. Think aloud with your reasoning.
Michelle Iacobucci Gr. 4/5
Walnut Grove
Purpose: math review informal assessment of new student
People Search When you find someone to work with you, do the work on the same ques?on together.
(12 ques?ons)
Knows 24 divided by 8
Can show an equivalent frac=on to ½
Will count by 6’s to 100
Can draw 4 groups of 3
Can explain the rule of this pamern: 1,3,9,27
Will find 3 ques?ons to this answer: A = 36
Graffi? Wall & Wri?ng with Stone Fox
• Goal: sharing what we learned • Theme: op?mism – Group, partner, individual reading & partner talk – Double entry journal: story events and thinking – S?cky notes: exquisite language, meaningful quotes, strong emo?on
– Class whip around – Borrowing 1-‐2 ideas each day – Final projects: graffi? wall and story
Goal: Reading and Writing with Fluency
• Grade 8 English • Dawnn Thorsen, CT and Sheryl Proskiw, ELD, Prince Rupert Middle School
• Have co-‐taught for 2 years – TRUST – All we need is a GOAL – Every 2nd day in both classes
• Both classes have 24 kids • Both classes have 3 kids on IEPs • Classroom management improved with daily 20 minutes of silent reading
• Class 1 – Lower self-‐esteem – 18 have had ESD support at some point
• Class 2 – 4 students have challenged grade 8 math – EA – More diversity
Day 1: Mystery Writing • Enter class to see the scene of the crime • 5 minute write
– Set the scene – What happened? – Why? – Mood?
• Dawnn modeled a start on the board • Change groups according to your coloured name tag • Character (all names of actual people in the school)
– One reads the character’s point of view – 5 minutes, add on
• Change groups • Piece of evidence
– Examine the evidence together – 5 minutes, add on
• Wri?ng is collected as kids leave • Plenty of ?me for both teachers to move around to support and extend all learners
• Students very on task
• Tomorrow: – Teachers will have chosen one phrase/line from each writer
– Display for all to see – Look for strengths – Move to wri?ng own detec?ve story
2nd class, reflections and revisions
• Start with characters, not seung • Set the scene more – 10 years from now
– You are back for a middle school reunion – Write in role
• Walk by the scene
• Encourage more table talk about the characters
Jo-Anne Goble Gr 5
Walnut Grove
Strategies for: catching students up/
suppor=ng developing readers/ revisi=ng or reviewing
• Instead of reading text -read student products
• Instead of writing- respond briefly to student products
• Instead of writing- read/discuss and decide whether you agree
Student products copied back to back…
read/ respond
How can you use this?
Sample is not necessarily the best. Consider less text…. …desirable student…
Less daun=ng than the assignment.
Extreme Environments -‐a lead in
Tuesdays with Tracey • Tracey Sullivan, Teacher Consultant, Secondary Literacy and Assessment, Richmond
• Lisa Toffolo – CT, Laura Sutherland – RT, Noli Cole – Youth and Family Support Worker
• Therapeu?c, social/emo?onal, and educa?onal interven?on is included in the educa?onal plan for each student (ages 13-‐18).
Goals: Social/emotional – belonging, safety, sense of ‘can do’, working with others
Academic – responding more deeply to a text by questioning
• Meet at 8AM to co-‐prepare a meal. All kids have a role.
• Eat together, then talk about what everyone is reading, siung in a circle (teachers and students mixed together)
• Teacher begins: – What I am reading, what I am wondering – Mini-‐lesson/focus: ex., ques?ons – Students move to board to write their ques?ons – i.e., make public, record
– Other teacher’s support 1:1 as necessary
Group Lesson: Questioning • Text: Stories with Holes hmp://www.angelfire.com/amiga/gstroop631/holes.html
• “A man was arrested in an airplane simply for gree?ng his friend 5 rows over.” – Why? – I can only answer ‘yes’ or ‘no’
• Debrief: – Think/thin ques?ons – What helped?
What are we noticing? • Kids are appearing to cook at 8 – and clean up
• Increased sense of community
• More eye contact
• Increased talk about books • Fewer needing 1:1 support as they are able to stay in the circle
• Increased ease with the ‘outsider’ – i.e., Tracy • Next: story elements, conversa?on, listening
Using Mindmaps to Organize and Demonstrate Understanding
• Gleneagle Secondary, Coquitlam, with Andy Albright, grade 10 English – graphic novels – Opener: hot chocolate invita?on and 3 + from yesterday – extended 1; modeled chains
– Styles Line-‐Up: visual, verbal, rela?onships/connec?ons, analyzing
– Examined mindmap of WW11 – what do you no?ce? Created draZ design criteria.
– Reviewed content criteria – 20 minute for individual work & feedback
• Trust your professional exper?se • Collaborate: 2 heads are bemer than 1
• Follow the lead of your children –their interests, their needs
• NO program exists that can replace YOU!!!
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