What do you currently have in your classroom other than the adopted text that can be used as teaching aids? What materials would you share with the general education staff to supplement the textbook? Post one example and include how you would collaborate with the general education teacher for implementation.
Due Jan. 28th
I have all kinds of objects in my classroom that students use for learning and reinforcing skills.
ReplyDelete• Of course, I have copies of current textbooks; there are also some older versions of the textbooks. The current textbooks have been highlighted.
• Smaller, more common items are: dice, calculators, markers, construction paper of various colors, CDs, DVDs, old fashioned audio-cassettes (I have a cassette player that works!) , and books. Our county library has a sack sale each year. A grocery sack full of books can be purchased for $1.00. Students check my books out, but aren’t restricted to the two week check out period of the school or county libraries.
• The iPod is another tool and when accompanied by the microphone its use is adapted.
• A notebook computer is very portable to take to classes to be used and students do.
• A scanner is attached to my desktop computer; students may scan particular objects to include them in their projects for classes.
• I keep a jar of peppermints (two types) on the counter. In addition to being breath mints, these can be used for math when working on probability and odds.
• Reliable Office Catalog sends free gifts with purchase of supplies; through it I have gotten an MP3 and iPod dock speaker system. When more than one student needs to hear the item on the iPod or MP3, we can hook them to the speakers. (They’re not wonderful, but the price was right!)
Even though there is lots of technology out there, give me a deck of playing cards and I can teach 1:1 correspondence to order of operations with differentiation based on the rules each group can use.
ReplyDeleteI like to bring in a variety of trade books at different reading levels on the same topic. Often the trade books have lots of pictures to support students who do not read as well, but can pick up the content through discussion and pictures from the trade books. I visited the various libraries through out the school system as well as the county library then I make a list of which books are where and just pull it out next year. I have done my own web quests for all students to use in the classroom as well as differentiating rubric for assignments. The general education teachers were very willing to use the supplements provided, as long as they were ready to go and did not need additional prep time. Going into the classroom and modeling for the day was helpful.
Study Island is good for differentiating math, reading, or science regardless if a student needs a higher level or lower level. I have lots of different vs. of books you can pull ideas from, edhelper.com is also another great place to get ideas and extensions.
ReplyDeleteI have several items as listed above. But one of my favorites is my Figurative Language book. It will give the definition of the figurative language and explain how it is that part. It give 4 different activities to use with the words. A multiple-choice format, asking the students to explain why a comparison is being made, and then a ranking of possible meanings for the words. Since this is part of the state assessment testing, there is no problem with the general education willingness to use some of the book for practice. Edhelper is another good tool to use and can be personalized for different grade levels.
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