Universal+Design+for+Learning

Great session hosted by Lisa Beckman and Sarah Bowman, 8th grade teachers from St. Clair Shores. This would be a great collaboration for us in Lake Orion. At the beginning of a unit, show students what the big ideas are, what the summative assessment will look like, what we want them to get out of the lesson. Their units move through phases:

//__Engage__//: Start units with engagement rather than explaining concepts. Open with screencast, show what assessment will be, THEN, get into the lessons (a lot of hands on), then have assessments at the end of the unit (again, a lot of hands on).

Engagement at the beginning of the lesson should fire students up to learn content. Can be a video, something to "hook" learners.

__//Explore//__: "Explore Learning" website with resources for Math and Science

netTrekker - search, gives readability levels. Can read aloud to students.

vozme - free website, can highlight text, add it to the site and create an mp3 that will read material to students.

ReadPlease - must be downloaded. Offers different voices and speeds.

__//Explain//__: They provide handouts for students to fill in (notes via graphic organizers). By this point in the unit, most of the material that will be covered has already been explored by students.

Include blank slide in Power Point, reminder for presentor to stop and check for understanding. This could be a chance to use something like Poll Everywhere.

Quizlet - web site the offers options for test review.

__//Assessment//__: Provide choices, give options, allow students to take ownership of assessment.

Provide tutorials/screencasts to show how to use software or technology for creating assessments. Use Camtasia to make screencasts.