UDL Presentation
Cathy Reyes
Maria Standiford
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| Date : | 02/03/2013 06:14 PM |
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Cathy Reyes
Lesson Planet (21st Century Learning Skills Lesson Plans) http://www.lessonplanet.com/lesson-plans/21st-century-learning-skills
This resource presents lessons pertaining to 21st century skills. Lessons include debatable topics about the economy, business-oriented scenarios, reflections, and cooperative learning tasks involving financial decision-making to name a few. Students will find means to explore topics based on their interests. Every lesson reflects interesting ideas affecting everyday lives and ultimately teaches critical thinking skills. In bringing such resource to my curriculum, I hope to find lessons which will cater to project-based objectives. Business classes do not simply aim to teach business terms. It aims to sharpen a learner’s capacity to analyze a financial situation and make the most out of it by making sound financial decisions. This resource will clearly help me identify topics which will pique my students’ varying interests. Engaging all learners is essential. Teachers are encouraged to strive for the development of lessons that are engaging and motivating for a diverse class of students (Hall, T., Strangman, N., & Meyer, A., 2011).
Acuity http://www.ctb.com/ctb.com/control/productFamilyViewAction?productFamilyId=444&p=products
Acuity is a comprehensive, Common Core K–12 balanced assessment solution that supports district and school instructional improvement goals, while enabling teachers to use valid and reliable assessment data to inform their instruction and intervention plans. By using the latest Common Core assessment content, teachers can measure deeper levels of student understanding then close learning gaps with engaging, embedded instructional resources. The Acuity online solution builds academic confidence, successfully preparing students for 21st century careers (CTB McGraw-Hill, 2013). The Acuity tool differentiates tasks in order to assist in identifying readiness for major assessments. These assessments center on major disciplines such as ELA and Math. My business class can benefit from such tool by helping me identify my group’s readiness in tackling math skills. Financial literacy involves computation based topics and would require strong mathematical skills. In addition, Acuity will help me generate differentiated assignments to reinforce concepts and skills. Use assessment as a teaching tool to extend rather than merely measure instruction. Assessment should occur before, during, and following the instructional episode, and it should be used to help pose questions regarding student needs and optimal learning (Hall, T., Strangman, N., & Meyer, A., 2011).
MoneyInstructor.com http://www.moneyinstructor.com/skills.asp
The Money Instructor is a resource which presents basic money lessons. It is well suited for different learning profiles. The site offers activities tackling the history of money, vocabulary, math problems, and pictures of money. It provides options for visual, kinesthetic, intrapersonal, and logical learning. Learners express comprehension and grasp a lesson in different ways. Such resource will support my curriculum in addressing foundation concepts. For example, the most common way of teaching unfamiliar terms is by oral discussions and note-taking. This site offers alternative lessons which include tracing images while mastering a vocabulary word. Based on pre-assessment information, the balance will vary from class-to-class as well as lesson-to-lesson. Teachers should ensure that students have choices in their learning (Hall, T., Strangman, N., & Meyer, A., 2011).
Kyle Tibbits
All three of your sources are really awesome and I intend on using each one of them. I am in the midst of my finances unit in my math class and am trying to prepare my students for financial responsibility for their futures. Only time will tell whether or not it has an impact on them, but hopefully their final project (see my DI) will be a real eye opener. Anyhow, with your first source I found a credit card management link (http://www.lessonplanet.com/teachers/lesson-plan-dont-get-caught-in-the-credit-trap), something that can be easily misused. Being a Common Core state, although I am unsure hot it affects my math classes as they are more non-state remedial classes, your second link would be very useful as we are to add more word problems that tackle multiple standards to our curriculum. Your third link fits in perfectly with the first link and the unit I am working with now. Thanks for finding them!
Kyle Tibbits
Rachel Smith
| From : | Cathy Reyes [cates...@gmail.com] |
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| Date : | 02/09/2013 11:49 PM |
| To : | the-walden-learning-...@googlegroups.com |
| Subject : | Re: UDL Presentation |
Cathy Reyes
Cathy Reyes
On Sunday, February 10, 2013 9:42:52 PM UTC-5, rachel.smith4 wrote:
Cathy,As I am an English major, I found that your sources are geared more toward your content area. However, I was able to locate links within the links you posted that will suit my needs for students. With Acuity, I was able to find a resource called Writing Roadmap, which gives teachers different scoring options. I think this would be useful as I could essentially use it also as a rubric for the students' writing. With Lesson Planet, I believe I will be able to use the presentation documents to help my students with essential skills like notetaking. I also think several of the worksheets will work in my content area.Thanks for sharing these resources with us.Rachel Smith
Original E-mail
From : Cathy Reyes [cates...@gmail.com] Date : 02/09/2013 11:49 PM
To : the-walden-learning-community-group...@googlegroups.com Subject : Re: UDL Presentation
Hi guys,Here are my resources:Lesson Planet (21st Century Learning Skills Lesson Plans) http://www.lessonplanet.com/lesson-plans/21st-century-learning-skills
This resource presents lessons pertaining to 21st century skills. Lessons include debatable topics about the economy, business-oriented scenarios, reflections, and cooperative learning tasks involving financial decision-making to name a few. Students will find means to explore topics based on their interests. Every lesson reflects interesting ideas affecting everyday lives and ultimately teaches critical thinking skills. In bringing such resource to my curriculum, I hope to find lessons which will cater to project-based objectives. Business classes do not simply aim to teach business terms. It aims to sharpen a learner’s capacity to analyze a financial situation and make the most out of it by making sound financial decisions. This resource will clearly help me identify topics which will pique my students’ varying interests. Engaging all learners is essential. Teachers are encouraged to strive for the development of lessons that are engaging and motivating for a diverse class of students (Hall, T., Strangman, N., & Meyer, A., 2011).
Acuity http://www.ctb.com/ctb.com/control/productFamilyViewAction?productFamilyId=444&p=products
Acuity is a comprehensive, Common Core K–12 balanced assessment solution that supports district and school instructional improvement goals, while enabling teachers to use valid and reliable assessment data to inform their instruction and intervention plans. By using the latest Common Core assessment content, teachers can measure deeper levels of student understanding then close learning gaps with engaging, embedded instructional resources. The Acuity online solution builds academic confidence, successfully preparing students for 21st century careers (CTB McGraw-Hill, 2013). The Acuity tool differentiates tasks in order to assist in identifying readiness for major assessments. These assessments center on major disciplines such as ELA and Math. My business class can benefit from such tool by helping me identify my group’s readiness in tackling math skills. Financial literacy involves computation based topics and would require strong mathematical skills. In addition, Acuity will help me generate differentiated assignments to reinforce concepts and skills. Use assessment as a teaching tool to extend rather than merely measure instruction. Assessment should occur before, during, and following the instructional episode, and it should be used to help pose questions regarding student needs and optimal learning (Hall, T., Strangman, N., & Meyer, A., 2011).
MoneyInstructor.com http://www.moneyinstructor.com/skills.asp
The Money Instructor is a resource which presents basic money lessons. It is well suited for different learning profiles. The site offers activities tackling the history of money, vocabulary, math problems, and pictures of money. It provides options for visual, kinesthetic, intrapersonal, and logical learning. Learners express comprehension and grasp a lesson in different ways. Such resource will support my curriculum in addressing foundation concepts. For example, the most common way of teaching unfamiliar terms is by oral discussions and note-taking. This site offers alternative lessons which include tracing images while mastering a vocabulary word. Based on pre-assessment information, the balance will vary from class-to-class as well as lesson-to-lesson. Teachers should ensure that students have choices in their learning (Hall, T., Strangman, N., & Meyer, A., 2011).
On Sunday, February 3, 2013 7:14:20 PM UTC-5, Cathy Reyes wrote:Hi guys,I'm sending this message again and if you get it twice, sorry about that.Here's my presentation.Any thoughts would help. I have not finalized it yet.Thanks for all your input in our previous discussions.Cathy--
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