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- 1. Customizing Student Learning Activities EIM504 Matt Glover
- 2. Differentiation Instruction • purposefullydesigning instruction to accommodate the known needs of one’s students and providing them with different content, strategies, and means of demonstrating the desired learning • It has become more popular due to the growing diversity of the student population in the general education. • Differentiated instruction is personalized and customized learning.
- 3. Universal Design for Learning(UDL) • an approach to instruction in which teachers remove barriers to learning by providing flexibility in materials, methods, and assessments.
- 4. Learning Profile • adescription of a student’s abilities, interests, learning preferences, and other relevant information that can impact learning • Teachers need to know the what, how, and why for each learner
- 5. Neural Networks • RecognitionNetworks = neural networks in the brain that help to identify sensory data, such as objects, facts, and patterns. • Strategic Networks = neural networks that control processes for planning, executing, and monitoring your action • Affective Networks = neural networks that relate to feelings and emotions, and which influence motivation for and engagement with a particular goal, method, medium, or assessment.
- 6. Setting Goals • Asa teacher, you develop learning goals for your students that allow them to obtain the skills and knowledge required by curricula and standards. When incorporating the UDL guidelines, learning goals should 1. allow students to clearly understand the outcomes (recognize “what” should be learned); 2. be achievable through a variety of media (provide multiple opportunities for “how” the lesson can be learned); and 3. communicate the importance of the goal to students (emphasize “why” the learning is important).
- 7. RTI • Response-To-Intervention (RTI)= framework that uses diagnostic and progress monitoring assessments to help group students for instructional interventions of varied intensity and types
- 8. Assistive Technology • anyitem, piece of equipment, or product system used to increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities of individuals with disability • Also known as the Tech Act
- 9. Meeting needs ofDiverse Learners • IDEA requires that states “ensure that all children with disabilities have available to them a free appropriate public education that emphasizes special education and related services designed to meet their unique needs and prepare them for employment and independent living. • Individualized Education Program (IEP) = an individualized plan for a student with disabilities that describes the measures teachers must take to accommodate the learning needs of the student.
- 10. Available Software • word-processingapplications software that allows users to create, edit, and revise written documents • word-prediction software software that suggests words based on common usage patterns, arrangement of letters, or rules of grammar • communication tools numerous technologies used to communicate synchronously or asynchronously, such as phones, e-mail, texting, and others
- 11. 8 Examples ofAssistive Technology and Adaptive Tools 1. Audio Players and Recorders 2. Timers 3. Reading Guides 4. Seat Cushions 5. FM Listening Systems 6. Calculators 7. Writing Supports 8. Graphic Organizers
- 12. References • Cennamo, K.,Ross, J., & Ertmer, P. (2010). Technology integration for meaningful classroom use: A standards-based approach (2nd ed.). Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth. • Morin, A. (2014, July 7). Assistive technology basics. Retrieved September 26, 2015.