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Consider whether one of the following activities might work well for your colleagues and context during a regularly scheduled staff/department/PLC meeting.
A tech finder tool that you may use to help support your learners is provided by Understood. Source: The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation - North Carolina State University
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During Week 5 of the above-mentioned MOOC-Ed, we have been encouraged to share the following activity to support students with learning differences: Consider whether one of the following activities might work well for your colleagues and context during a regularly scheduled staff/department/PLC meeting. Create a Student Profile and Plan for What to do Next:
Experience Learning Difficulties Through a Child’s Eyes:
You may also use some of these tech tools to help students further their learning on/off-line:
Source: The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation - North Carolina State University Consider whether one of the following activities might work well for your colleagues during a regularly scheduled staff/department/PLC meeting.
Provide folks with learning materials and/or references about “Extrinsic & Intrinsic” motivation in students (e.g. Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic. The Challenge of Motivation | Ecology of Education Blog. Invite folks in small groups to ...
Recruit 4-6 folks to facilitate rotating “table talks” aligned and focused on specific content areas (i.e. Math, SS, Science and other site-based curricula). Provide facilitators with content specific motivation strategies gleaned from the MOOC-Ed and “group-think” some “Try It Tommorow” applications for upcoming lessons or units. During whole staff, PLN/PLC and/or department meeting that is seeded with folks who have completed the Learning Differences MOOC-ED, ask each participant to record one to three ways they currently motivate students (overall or in specific content areas). When done, have everyone continuously pass their cards to the left (use a timer or music ). When time is up or the music stops, on the current card each person has in their hands, they add at least two more ideas or feedback. Repeat as appropriate. All cards go back to original owners, refreshed with new ideas and feedback. Source: The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation - North Carolina State University Consider whether one of the following activities might work well for your colleagues during a regularly scheduled staff/department/PLC meeting.
Host a group / PLC viewing of the TEDTalk video: How your “working memory” makes sense of the world. As a group, reflect upon the following questions and discuss: Play the working memory game with the presenter, and discuss the questions below. [2:31-3:58]
How do we use our working memory in our daily lives? How does this translate to the classroom? [4:39-5:14] How is working memory limited? What strategies can we use in our classrooms to help support student’s working memory? [6:44-9:18] Before the PLC group meets, the PLC lead (or another volunteer) should create a list of about 7 items. Divide the time allotted for the PLC meeting by 10 (e.g., if the meeting will be 45 minutes, each division will be 4½ minutes). At the start of the meeting ask colleagues to remember the first term on the list, then proceed with the meeting as normal. When each chunk of time passes, give colleagues another term to be remembered. (So for example, at the start of the meeting, you may ask them to remember “computer”; five minutes later, you ask them to remember “dolphin”; and ten minutes into the meeting, you add “pickle” to the list. And so on.) After all of the items have been given, ask them to write the list of words down, preferably in order. Then consider the following questions:
As a group, reflect on the resources in the course and hold a share out of the strategies you staff learned about, and what strategies they utilize to support their students’ working memory. Using the strategies discussed, design a series of tasks that help students identify their own working memory capacities. The first task should have 3 directives for students to remember at one time. The second task might have 4-5 directives for students to remember. The last should have 6-7 directives for students to remember. Once these activities are complete, have students reflect on the following questions:
Source: The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation - North Carolina State University Consider whether one of the following activities might work well for your colleagues and context during a regularly scheduled staff/department/PLC meeting.
Hold a staff screening of the The Myth of Average, Todd Rose’s TEDx Talk video, and after watching together, discuss the following questions:
Encourage your staff to complete a learner sketch or profile at Faces of Learning either before or during your meeting. After folks have completed their profile, encourage conversations around the following:
Provide folks with paper or electronic copies of your local or site-based teacher effectiveness standards and prompt folks to uncover the following:
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