Equity for the Exceptional Learner Session 1

1. Equity for the Exceptional Learner Session 1 If you haven’t done so already, please read “Understanding the Differences Between IDEA and Section 504” in the SPED section of your binder. You need this background knowledge for our discussions this evening, so please begin reading now. Right now…Amanda. Amanda! Turn around, please, and begin reading.

2. Equity for the Exceptional Learner Session 1 Any educational efforts may said to be unsuccessful to the extent that student achievement is normally distributed. Benjamin Bloom

3. Equity for the Exceptional Learner Session 1 The man who can make hard things easy is the educator. Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. Equity for the Exceptional Learner Session 1 Learning is something students do, not something done to students. Alfie Kohn

5. Beginning Class Items • Announcements • Book share • Article share • General thoughts or comments • Anyone move or get a job?

6. Amber Harris Ticket 3 I have always wanted to teach. It all started when I was 4 years old and at the daycare that I was staying at, I had my “students” call me Miss. Jobe. I want to teach because I feel like I can offer something unique. That’s a great place to begin. That sounds very cliché, but I feel like there is no one else like me in the world. I would tend to agree. You are very unique while at the same time very charming and endearing. The ways I think, act, and speak are different than anyone else and I feel like that in itself is very different. I have always done my own thing and I love going out of the box to get the job done and I feel like I can reach all levels of kids when someone thinks that way. I also think that will serve you well. I have a little “Amber” in me, too, and that part of me is very conducive to motivating and inspiring students, so I think you are in good shape.

7. A high school biology teacher has students use learning logs on a regular basis. Following are some reflection questions the teacher asked students to address in their logs during a recent unit on biology and society. What did you learn from the video we saw today? Do you think the work we just read by Rachel Carson, a biologist and environmentalist who wrote decades ago, is as relevant today as it was when it was written? Why or why not? How did your group’s research contribute to your understanding of the ethical dimensions of biological sciences? Those questions best reflect the teacher’s use of which of the following principles related to learning? ------------------------------------------------------------------- • Learning is enhanced when students are challenged to formulate general rules and principles on their own based on their knowledge of specifics • Learning tends to be most meaningful when students’ acquisition of knowledge and skills is self-motivated • Learning occurs most effectively when students are prompted to consciously regulate the skills and procedures they use to obtain new knowledge • Learning is reinforced when students are provided with opportunities to actively process new information

8. A high school biology teacher has students use learning logs on a regular basis. Following are some reflection questions the teacher asked students to address in their logs during a recent unit on biology and society. What did you learn from the video we saw today? Do you think the work we just read by Rachel Carson, a biologist and environmentalist who wrote decades ago, is as relevant today as it was when it was written? Why or why not? How did your group’s research contribute to your understanding of the ethical dimensions of biological sciences? Those questions best reflect the teacher’s use of which of the following principles related to learning? ------------------------------------------------------------------- • Learning is enhanced when students are challenged to formulate general rules and principles on their own based on their knowledge of specifics • Learning tends to be most meaningful when students’ acquisition of knowledge and skills is self-motivated • Learning occurs most effectively when students are prompted to consciously regulate the skills and procedures they use to obtain new knowledge • Learning is reinforced when students are provided with opportunities to actively process new information

9. Equity for the Exceptional Learner Session 1 “One Teacher’s Dream” People July 6, 2006

10. Equity for the Exceptional Learner Session 1 Read “Understanding the Differences Between IDEA and Section 504” (pp. 1-8)

11. Equity for the Exceptional Learner Session 1 Read “Understanding the Differences Between IDEA and Section 504” (pp. 1-8) Divide into groups Answer five questions from figure 2 in the article Discuss as class when complete

12. Equity for the Exceptional Learner Session 1 “School Accommodations and Modifications” (pp. 9-12) Discussion • Differences between accommodations and modifications • Assign “A” or “M” to each item on the list

13. Equity for the Exceptional Learner Session 1 “The Responsibilities of the General Education Teacher” (p. 13)

14. Please return from break within 15 minutes

15. Equity for the Exceptional Learner Session 2 It’s a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. Albert Einstein

16. Equity for the Exceptional Learner Session 2 The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values. William R. Inge (Author, 1860-1954)

17. The computer stations in the school’s library/media center have access to the internet. Ms. Platt would like to use a research project assignment as an opportunity to develop students’ proficiency at using the internet. The students will be conducting online research over the course of several days. Ms. Platt can best facilitate their work by: ------------------------------------------------------------------- • Printing out all the pages containing relevant information that students encounter in the course of their search • Advising students to take careful notes of all relevant information during their online sessions • Allocating specific computer stations to individual students for the duration of the project • Showing students how to create their own personal Bookmarks/Favorites file to save useful URL addresses

18. The computer stations in the school’s library/media center have access to the internet. Ms. Platt would like to use a research project assignment as an opportunity to develop students’ proficiency at using the internet. The students will be conducting online research over the course of several days. Ms. Platt can best facilitate their work by: ------------------------------------------------------------------- • Printing out all the pages containing relevant information that students encounter in the course of their search • Advising students to take careful notes of all relevant information during their online sessions • Allocating specific computer stations to individual students for the duration of the project • Showing students how to create their own personal Bookmarks/Favorites file to save useful URL addresses

19. Equity for the Exceptional Learner Session 2 F.A.T. City Beyond F.A.T. City