At the start of the year, Mary Jayne builds solid routines for choices in learning and provides students with permanent resources for independent learning. She offers a variety learning format choices including self-paced, collaborative learning and teacher guided. To promote student reflection and academic risk taking, Mary Jayne has students volunteer to share their biggest “no” (mistake). Students use each others' work as a learning tool, reflecting on mistakes, analyzing challenges and suggesting alternate strategies. Mary Jane reports having students collaboratively analyze mistakes in work helps student reflection, content understanding and discourse to soar. As Mary Jayne states "I honestly have a better pulse of my class this year . . . I truly know who get's it and who doesn't." Watch the video below to explore Mary Jayne’s classroom and math center.
Math Routines, Self-Paced Learning, Student Reflection and Centers - A Perfect Learning Equation!11/4/2016 Mary Jayne Bortz, 6th grade math teacher at Herbert Hoover Middle School, has embraced the UDL framework. She incorporates learning centers to provide options for new learning and practice, solid routines for student choice and control, and processes for self-reflection to guide students to take ownership of their learning, take academic risks, and learn collaboratively. She uses the UDL framework to increase engagement for all learners and explicitly sets the goal for all students to become expert learners. Students sign an Expert Learner contract at the outset of the year and her lessons frequently emphasize what makes an "expert learner".
At the start of the year, Mary Jayne builds solid routines for choices in learning and provides students with permanent resources for independent learning. She offers a variety learning format choices including self-paced, collaborative learning and teacher guided. To promote student reflection and academic risk taking, Mary Jayne has students volunteer to share their biggest “no” (mistake). Students use each others' work as a learning tool, reflecting on mistakes, analyzing challenges and suggesting alternate strategies. Mary Jane reports having students collaboratively analyze mistakes in work helps student reflection, content understanding and discourse to soar. As Mary Jayne states "I honestly have a better pulse of my class this year . . . I truly know who get's it and who doesn't." Watch the video below to explore Mary Jayne’s classroom and math center.
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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
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