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
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
A Simulation....
Really?
Let’s watch the below video showing some people
who have learning disabilities:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PoX3afiKx0
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
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
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
What did you learn from
the webinar?
Which Strategy will you try? How might you adapt the
strategy for your students?
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
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. (Scientificallyvalidated and evidence-based).
Brief module tutorial:
http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/media/module_nav.html
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
Star Legacy Module on
UDL
http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/udl/challeng
e.htm
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