Yesterday, in the class on "Teaching Students with learning disabilities" we worked on different ways of engaging and giving better opportunities to those students who have some kind of learning handicap, while at the same time offering variations to the rest of the students in the classroom.
Dr Anya Evmenova told us about lots of online resources available for free on the web (I list them below ;).
The basic idea in an inclusive classroom is that the teacher has to make the students fit into the existing instruction so as not to isolate some of them. Thus, the best approach to teaching should be based on UDL (Universal Design for Learning). The principles of UDL implies that every lesson should include:
1- Multiple means of representation
2- Multiple means of expression
3-Multiple means of engagement
BUT HOW??...here are some clues:
a- when doing reading activities use not only text, but also images, video, audio/text-to-speech (naturalreaders.com)
b- reflect on experiences
c- vary the way you teach and practice vocabulary using
- visual dictionaries (visuwords.com )
- flashcards games (quizlet.com)
- graphic organizers ( edhelp.com)
READING LESSONS
1- You can make sts read the same content, but using texts with different levels of complexity. In the website newsela.com you can change the difficulty of some texts with just one click !!.
2- By providing images along with text we can help those students who struggle while reading, look at this web site: tarheelreader.org
INTERACTIVE EXERCISES
Providing feedback while doing an exercise online is very rewarding for students. Some ideas in - http://jc-schools.net/?divisionID=15672&departmentID=16520&Subdepartmentid=7612
EXPRESSION
Allow alternatives for the students to express learning through: oral reports, cartoons, short films, drawings, multimedia presentations, putting events in sequence or ... and if some students have problems writing use speech-to-text programs.
Here you can try two "story creation tools": carnegielibrary.org/kids/storymaker/storymaker.swf and comicmaster.org.uk
LIST OF MANY MORE FUN OPTIONS:
- wikispaces.com
- visuwords.com
- quizlet.com
- edhelp.com
- tarheelreader.org
- naturalreaders.com
- newsela.com
- teachthought.com
- http://jc-schools.net/?divisionID=15672&departmentID=16520&Subdepartmentid=7612
- carnegielibrary.org
- comicmaster.org.uk
- eduplace.com/tales/
- writingfix.com
- toondoo.com
- teacher.scholastic.com/activities/scrapbook/
- storybird.com
- fotobabble.com
... AND REMEMBER !!
The activities we can create using these resources not necessarily have to do exclusively with teaching students with disabilities !! Many of them are fun and can be a great resource to motivate all of our students :)
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