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:

• Have each teacher on your team make a profile of one student they’re trying to “figure out.” This profile should include strengths, weaknesses, and specific evidence (try to avoid judgmental statements like “s/he’s so disruptive,” instead tell how s/he disrupts, when, and in what way). 
• Bring the profiles to a PLC meeting and allow each teacher 5-10 minutes to present the student and the evidence and have a productive conversation similar to the what would you do next activity.
• Follow up next week - how did the plan work? 

Experience Learning Difficulties Through a Child’s Eyes:

• Using a common student (can be one of the students from part one or perhaps a different student) and go to the website Understood.org. 
• Go to this link and fill out the information about the student you’re thinking of.
  
• Complete the simulation.
• Discuss how the simulation affected your perception of the student. What are you doing that really works for this student? What might you do differently?