| Body | This Activity of the Week provides teachers with the opportunity to examine and implement the classroom strategies in “Supporting World Language Learning for Students with Disabilities,” a guidebook for practitioners published by the Virginia Department of Education.
Objectives:
Teachers will be able to:
-
Evaluate classroom strategies designed for the inclusive classroom.
-
Implement one of the strategies within a lesson.
-
Reflect on the implementation of the strategy to articulate a plan for the next instance of implementation.
Materials: “Supporting World Language Learning for Students with Disabilities”
Procedure:
-
Read p. 31-43 in "Supporting World Language Learning for Students with Disabilities.” As you read, star 3-5 strategies that you want to implement in your own class.
-
Select one strategy. Consider the cautions about the strategy outlined within the document and articulate a plan to contend with the cautions. For example, if the strategy calls for use of materials that might call attention to learners with diverse needs, think of how to replicate the same materials for other learners in the classroom.
-
Write a lesson plan that features the strategy that you selected.
-
Implement the lesson plan. Pay close attention to whether your strategy reached all learners and to the ways in which the strategy promoted (or failed to promote) inclusivity.
-
Ask the learners to complete an exit ticket at the close of the lesson in which they articulate their favorite aspect of the strategy as well as offer any questions or concerns they had related to the strategy.
-
Upon reading the exit tickets, consider your own observations from the class and decide what went well for you with regards to implementation. Make a note of those successes so that you remember to replicate them in the future. Then, note one change that you would like to make to ensure prolonged success in future implementations of the strategy.
|
|---|
