Agenda Day 1 am

8:00 - 8:30 Introductions / Overview of LD’s

8:30 - 9:40 Lavoie Video

9:40 - 10:00 Response to Lavoie Video

10:00 - 12:00 Webinar Differentiated Instruction / RTI

12:00 - 1:00 Break

General Ed / Special Ed students at our school

What’s it like to be What’s it like to be learning disabled?learning disabled?

“Imagine going to work and not being able to do your job.

Now imagine that you can't leave your job.

Imagine having to do that every day.

This is what life is like for children with learning disabilities."

-- Dr. David Urion

Director, Neurology and Learning Disabilities Program,

Children's Hosptial, Boston

A Simulation....

Really?Really?

Let’s watch the below video showing some people who have learning disabilities:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PoX3afiKx0

Let’s see what it’s like...

PBS created the following simulations so that you can experience what it’s like to have a learning disability:

Visual: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/misunderstoodminds/experiences/attexp1a.html

Auditory: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/misunderstoodminds/experiences/attexp2a.html

Attention: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/misunderstoodminds/experiences/attexp3a.html

How can we adjust our thinking?

Video by Richard Lavoie, M.A., M.Ed. How Difficult Can This Be?The F.A.T. City Workshop (70 min) http://www.ricklavoie.com/videos.html#anchor109061

Project Owl Companion to movie:

http://www.barnard.edu/ods/ProjectOWL/POWL_hand_FATCity.html

What did you learn?

Please write a paragraph response to each of the below questions on the discussion forum of the wiki page: (1) What is your #1 take-away from Lavoie’s F.A.T. video? and (2) What did it feel like to complete LD the simulations?

Differentiated Differentiated Instruction and RTIInstruction and RTI

Webinar

We will review the webinar Differentiated Tools and Strategies to Support RTI in Language Arts / Social Studies at: http://www.schoolsmovingup.net/cs/smu/view/e/4332

What did you learn from the webinar?

Which Strategy will you try? How might you adapt the strategy for your students?

Agenda - day 1 pm

1:00 - 3:00 UDL Module

3:00 - 3:30 - Assessment

3:30 - 4:00 - Q&A / Follow-up for Day 2

universal design for universal design for learninglearning

UDLUDLUDLUDL

Star Legacy Modules

Star Legacy Modules were developed at the Iris Center at Vanderbilt University, and provide educators with real-life scenarios as it relates to students with disabilities. (Scientifically-validated and evidence-based).

Brief module tutorial:

http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/media/module_nav.html

Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

“Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an approach to teaching, learning, curriculum development and assessment that uses new technologies to respond to a variety of individual learner differences. IDEA 2004 defines Universal design using the same definition as the Assistive Technology Act of 1998, as amended, 29 U.S.C. 3002. (34CFR§ 300.44):

“The term `universal design' means a concept or philosophy for designing and delivering products and services that are usable by people with the widest possible range of functional capabilities, which include products and services that are directly accessible (without requiring assistive technologies) and products and services that are interoperable with assistive technologies.”

(Section 3(19)of Assistive Technology Act as amended in 2004)

http://www.nectac.org

Star Legacy Module on UDL

http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/udl/challenge.htm

Assessment

Answer questions 1-5 on the Assessment section of the UDL Star Legacy Module, and post them here: link to UDL Assessment questions

Follow-up Activities for Day 2 / Q&A

For Tomorrow:

Bring in a 1 day lesson plan that you currently use in your teaching of social studies-bring all relevant materials for group work on Day 2.

Navigate around / browse Vanderbilt Iris site at http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/

Q&A