AGENDA DAY 1 AM
8:00 - 8:30 Introductions / Overview of LD’s
8:30 - 9:40 Lavoie Video
9:40 - 10:00 Response to Lavoie Video
10:00 - 12:00 Webinar Differentiated Instruction / RTI
12:00 - 1:00 Break
GENERAL ED / SPECIAL ED
STUDENTS AT OUR SCHOOL
General Ed
Special Ed
17%
83%
The % of Special Ed students at our school is 17% - approximately 2/10
students in your classes. The goal of this presentation is to help you
understand how to best include ALL students in your instruction.
WHAT’S IT LIKE TO
BE LEARNING
DISABLED?
“Imagine going to work and not being able to do your job.
Now imagine that you can't leave your job.
Imagine having to do that every day.
This is what life is like for children with learning disabilities."
-- Dr. David Urion
Director, Neurology and Learning Disabilities Program,
Children's Hosptial, Boston
Please take a moment to think about this...
A SIMULATION....
Read below from http://www.easyiephelp.com/easy-iep-help/learning-disability-simulation/
“Look at the picture. Who do you see? Now walk back from your computer about 15 feet or so
Now who do you see? This hybrid image was created in 2007 by Dr. Aude Oliva of MIT.
If you saw Albert Einstein up close and Marilyn Monroe when you stepped back 15 feet, congratulations! You
now know what it’s like to have a learning disability.
This visual cognition experiment acts as a learning disability simulation and illustrates what many kids with
learning disabilities endure in school.
The teacher at the front of the classroom either writes something on the board, shows a slide on a monitor or
simply lectures to the class. Pretty standard stuff that happens every day in schools across the country. And for
most students, what is shown or said at the front of the class is exactly what they see or hear”.
REALLY?
Let’s watch the below video showing some people
who have learning disabilities:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PoX3afiKx0
Having a learning disability can really change the way people look at
you. It’s our job to help remove the stigma. We can do this by
becoming informed.
LET’S SEE WHAT IT’S
LIKE...
PBS created the following simulations so that you can
experience what it’s like to have a learning disability:
Visual: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/
misunderstoodminds/experiences/attexp1a.html
Auditory: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/
misunderstoodminds/experiences/attexp2a.html
Attention: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/
misunderstoodminds/experiences/attexp3a.html
Please “click” on each of the links to experience what a student with a
LD is up against.
HOW CAN WE ADJUST
OUR THINKING?
Video by Richard Lavoie, M.A., M.Ed.
How Difficult Can This Be?
The F.A.T. City Workshop (70 min)
http://www.ricklavoie.com/
videos.html#anchor109061
Project Owl Companion to movie:
http://www.barnard.edu/ods/ProjectOWL/
POWL_hand_FATCity.html
Now we will watch a video from Rick Lavoie & I will hand-out the Project
Owl companion sections to the movie: http://www.barnard.edu/ods/
ProjectOWL/POWL_hand_FATCity.html . Read: “This unique program
allows viewers to experience the same frustration, anxiety and tension
[F.A.T.] that children with learning disabilities face in their daily lives.
Teachers, social workers, psychologists, parents and friends who have
participated in Richard Lavoie's workshop reflect upon their experience
and the way it changed their approach to L.D. children. 1989.”
WHAT DID YOU
LEARN?
Please write a paragraph response to each of the
below questions on the discussion forum of the
wiki page: (1) What is your #1 take-away from
Lavoie’s F.A.T. video? and (2) What did it feel like
to complete LD the simulations?
DIFFERENTIATED
INSTRUCTION AND
RTI
WEBINAR
We will review the webinar Differentiated Tools and Strategies
to Support RTI in Language Arts / Social Studies at:
http://www.schoolsmovingup.net/cs/smu/view/e/4332
We will review this webinar together. It gives you strategies on how
you can differentiate instruction and support RTI in Social Studies. The
concepts that apply to language arts can be modified for social studies
instruction.
WHAT DID YOU LEARN
FROM THE WEBINAR?
Which Strategy will you try? How might you adapt the
strategy for your students?
Please answer the two questions on the slide and post on the wikispace
under day 1.
AGENDA - DAY 1 PM
1:00 - 3:00 UDL Module
3:00 - 3:30 - Assessment
3:30 - 4:00 - Q&A / Follow-up for Day 2
UNIVERSAL DESIGN
FOR LEARNING
UDL
STAR LEGACY
MODULES
Star Legacy Modules were developed at the Iris
Center at Vanderbilt University, and provide
educators with real-life scenarios as it relates to
students with disabilities. (Scientifically-validated
and evidence-based).
Brief module tutorial:
http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/media/
module_nav.html
Star Legacy Modules are modules that we will be using throughout our
seminar. I highly suggest reviewing all that the IRIS website has to offer
when you are at home. All modules are scientifically-validated and
evidence-based. Let’s review the module tutorial together.
UNIVERSAL DESIGN
FOR LEARNING (UDL)
“Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an approach to teaching, learning, curriculum
development and assessment that uses new technologies to respond to a variety of
individual learner differences. IDEA 2004 defines Universal design using the same
definition as the Assistive Technology Act of 1998, as amended, 29 U.S.C. 3002. (34CFR§
300.44):
“The term `universal design' means a concept or philosophy for designing and delivering
products and services that are usable by people with the widest possible range of functional
capabilities, which include products and services that are directly accessible (without requiring
assistive technologies) and products and services that are interoperable with assistive
technologies.”
(Section 3(19)of Assistive Technology Act as amended in 2004)
http://www.nectac.org
Now that you have reviewed how a Star Legacy Module works, let me
explain to you what the topic of the Star Legacy Module is that we will
be reviewing today. The topic is : Universal Design for Learning, or
UDL. **Read definition aloud.
STAR LEGACY MODULE
ON UDL
http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/udl/
challenge.htm
Great, now let’s review the module on UDL together.
ASSESSMENT
Answer questions 1-5 on the Assessment section of
the UDL Star Legacy Module, and post them here:
link to UDL Assessment questions
FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITIES
FOR DAY 2 / Q&A
For Tomorrow:
Bring in a 1 day lesson plan that you currently
use in your teaching of social studies-bring all
relevant materials for group work on Day 2.
Navigate around / browse Vanderbilt Iris site
at http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/
Q&A
To concretize the concept of UDL, please bring a lesson plan that you
currently use in your teaching of social studies, and review the
Vanderbilt Iris website. Now, we will move on to Q&A.