November 29, 2007 (class #15)

Class outline:

4:20-4:30	Quick questions and quandaries. Announcements: Next week is the last day of class – the final assignment is due at the start of class. Class will probably end early, so if you arrive late and class is already dismissed, you will not be able to turn in your paper. Last assignments will only be accepted under EXTRAORDINARY circumstances and with prior permission. No regularly scheduled office hours during finals week. Please schedule an appointment with me if you want to meet.
4:30-5:00	Interactive presentation: Lessons learned
5:00-5:45	Small group activity:  Describe a “typical” lesson that you have seen or remember from school. (note, you can share a lesson that you access from a web site). Identify aspects that might be a problem for different kinds of learners. Come up with some ideas of how you can modify the content, process, and product to reach a wider range of learners. Note: you might want to look on this web site ahead of time for ideas of different instructional strategies: http://www.readingquest.org/strat/home.html and on this web site for sample lesson plans: http://www.lessonplanspage.com/. You might also want to bring your case study book (Halmhuber & Beauvais, 2002) to class and use one of the case studies to get you started. You may take a break, if needed, during the small group activity.
5:45-6:00	Report out
6:00-6:50	Make-up exam: You MUST turn in your old mid-term before taking the test. If you do not have your old mid-term with you, you may not take the make-up. This was announced in the last class session when I discussed the make-up test. This is a closed-book test; All papers, cell phones, backpacks, etc. must be put away before the test is distributed.

Overheads:

• PowerPoint

Additional Resources:

• This is a chapter that provides a good introduction to multiple intelligences:

http://www.ascd.org/portal/site/ascd/template.chapter/menuitem.b71d101a2f7c208cdeb3ffdb62108a0c/?chapterMgmtId=b44c177a55f9ff00VgnVCM1000003d01a8c0RCRD
• Go to the CAST web site for information on Universal Design for Learning (http://www.cast.org/research/udl/index.html and http://www.cast.org/teachingeverystudent/) and Differentiated Instruction (http://www.cast.org/publications/ncac/ncac_diffinstruc.html)
• Go to the Center for Uni versal Design at North Carolina Unviersity: http://www.design.ncsu.edu/cud/
• To access more information about their 7 principles, clickk here: http://www.design.ncsu.edu/cud/about_ud/udprinciples.htm
• Information on Ron Mace, the architect credited for developing the term "universal design: http://www.ihcd-ae.org/adp/profiles/1_mace.php

Web sites for teachers to help develop differentiated lesson plans:

• http://www.frsd.k12.nj.us/rfmslibrarylab/di/differentiated_instruction.htm
• http://www.ericdigests.org/2001-2/elementary.html
• http://www.k8accesscenter.org/training_resources/readingdifferentiation.asp
• http://www.k8accesscenter.org/training_resources/mathdifferentiation.asp
• http://www.scusd.edu/gate_ext_learning/differentiated.htm