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.
