Ms. McCurry is a fourth grade teacher at Weller Road Elementary School. She decided to use her bulletin board space to create "Choice Boards". These choices can change over time but they provide a menu of choices for the ways that her students can demonstrate their learning in reading and math. Having these choice boards in her room allow students to have choice for products as a matter of routine. The objectives can change each week and the choices can change on occasion as well, but the choice is an ever present part of how the classroom operates. Sometimes students will suggest other choices that they'd like to have for demonstrating their learning, sometimes Ms. McCurry might introduce a new choice. The takeaway, for me, is that she is embedding choice into structure of her classroom. It's not just an add on for projects, it's part of the every day culture in her classroom.
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I know that I already wrote about Ms. Paul and her work as a chemistry teacher at Wheaton High School a couple of posts ago...but I wanted to show you more of her class in action. Here she is...in her own words! Inspired to screencast? Can you see yourself using screencasting to scaffold student learning? I found some resources to help you learn how to use the Activinpire tool for screencasting. Here is a Youtube video below and a PDF link of step by step instructions. You can make a choice! In addition here's a short screencasting article that shares a few different ways that teachers can use this strategy and some basic online tools. Finally, here's a great blog post by Beth Holland that I found on my favorite Edutopia website that's titled, "Redefining Learning Through Screencasting". Ms. Holland presents a bigger picture on the impact that screencasting can have for education. As we know, providing flexible options for representation will help educators to meet the needs of more students. Shriver UDL PLC site leader, Alicia Allou, shared this poster at our site leader meeting yesterday. I thought I would share it with you- the file has been attached so you can download it and use it at your own school. UDL PLC Site Leader Alicia Allou reflects on their school metacognition poster: "Our UDL team was planning and trying to look for ways to make UDL more visible to staff and students. This year our school has really done a much better job with TASS and the TASS posters became an anchor for staff and students. With this in mind, our team created a UDL poster to guide students to reflect on their choices. As we worked through this, it was really important to the team to include the questions "What worked for me today? Why?" to stress that each learning experience is different." Thank you to the UDL PLC at Shriver ES for sharing their work with others!!! The attachment was designed with two on a page and then print on the poster printer.
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AuthorsWelcome! I am a media specialist at Brookhaven Elementary School. I began this blog when I was hired to work with the HIAT team as a UDL Project Specialist for the Expanding Bridges Grant. Since the Grant ended, HIAT staff now collaborate to contribute to the blog and share UDL stories from MCPS! Archives
December 2016
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