As I continue to progress towards implementing my GAME plan, I continue to think of new things and have come up with new questions to address.
In order to progress towards my goal of customizing and personalizing learning activities to address students' different learning styles, I have begun creating the surveys I will distribute at the beginning of the year. I have included questions about what they like to do with their free time, what types of class activities they have done in the past, included ones they both liked and disliked, and why. I also ask students what types of tests and projects they seem to score best on, and what types of tests they prefer to take and why.
In order to progress towards my second goal of incorporating learner-centered lessons with technology I have begun reviewing different topics within my content area to see which ones would be best for these types of lessons. I don't think it would be practical to try to do this type of lesson for every topic, as it is time consuming and I don't think we would be able to get through the whole curriculum. I also think it might be a little overwhelming for the students if we tried to do this for every topic, as it would be a lot of work in addition to the regular content they are responsible for.
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Alison,
ReplyDeleteI agree this can become overwhelming at times and would be very difficult to incorporate for every single topic we need to teach. However once you figure out your students learning styles you can gear your assignments for your students toward the learning style of the majority of your class and then switch it up hear and there.
It sounds like you are on the right track and getting quite a bit accomplished.
Katherine
Alison, reviewing your subject topics for technology applications and tie ins is smart.
ReplyDeleteI am going to begin doing something similar. I have tons of papers and worksheets I have employed with my Special Needs students. They are taking up a lot of space in my 3 filing cabinets. I think I am going to start sorting through them and determining which ones I can make digital or find a web based substitute for.
I am also going to go back over my lesson plan book over the summer and see if I can identify lessons we can better implement with technology next year.
Thanks,
John C.