Discover how providing choice in the classroom can create a more inclusive and engaging learning environment for all students. Learn about the benefits of choice and practical tips for implementing it effectively.
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Building Confident Writers: Strategies and Resources for Engaged Learning
In this post, you will find: ideas, tools and strategies that you could use to support all learners in writing a visual of the ideas, tools and strategies that you can download Writing is a complex skill that many people find challenging to master, especially when faced with barriers that hinder learning the foundational skills … Continue reading Building Confident Writers: Strategies and Resources for Engaged Learning
8 No Prep Ways to Provide Choice in Any Lesson
Why not start small? Providing choices for learners does not have to be extravagant projects or tasks such as choice boards. It can also be the small, simple options we give our learners between projects and tasks. They can be as simple as allowing learners to make a choice about where they sit in the lesson or how they interact when answering a question. These simple choices provide snippets of autonomy for learners and are designed in a way that allows learners to see that they will be successful in at least one of the options.
Transform Your Teaching with Visual Lesson Reflections!
Reflection is a learning experience for the educator and it doesn't matter how long you have been in this game, it is still important to reflect on a lesson or two. In this post I am going to share how I reflect on my learning experiences using visuals.
+1 Series: Small Routines with Big Impact: Learning Goal
A clear goal is the very foundation of effective curriculum (Meyer, Rose, & Gordon, 2014). Why not represent the learning goal in multiple ways for learners? This routine supports learners to know and have a clear example of what they will be able to do by the end of the lesson as well as representing the learning goal in many ways.
+1 Series: Small Routines with Big Impact: Vocabulary Choice Board
We all know how important vocabulary is to reading comprehension and the importance of teaching vocabulary explicitly (Fisher et al., 2016). This routine is used after the explicit teaching of vocabulary. This routine allows learners to review and apply their understanding of the focus word in different ways.
Are Your Assessment Tasks Accessible For All Learners?
It's the beginning of the school year here in Australia and what a good time to reflect on upcoming assessment tasks before you dive into unit planning. If you're lucky enough to have assessment tasks already created well this post is for you.
Making Assessment Relevant: Authentic and Meaningful Narrative Assessment Task Ideas
It is important that when we are designing assessment tasks, we are eliminating the barrier of irrelevance. When we engage the engagement network of the brain we are ensuring that learners are motivated and connected to their learning (CAST, 2020). So why is it any different for assessment?
UDL and Reading: 12 Low Tech and Low Cost Activities to Make Phonics Instruction Inclusive for All
In this post, I want to share some practical activities that could be used in phonics instruction to provide choice for learners. The intent of these examples is to be low cost and simple activities to implement quickly.
Many Ways to Assess and Support the Assessment of Speaking Curriculum Standards Other than Oral Presentations
We can support the assessment of speaking standards two different ways depending on the type of standard. Depending on if the standard is a concept standard or a method standard, we can provide choice in the supports we provide to enable learners to achieve success or options in how they demonstrate their learning.
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