Remote Learning Lesson Plans 3/23 4th GRADE

4th GRADE Remote Learning Lesson Plans and Daily Schedule 3/23 4th GRADE Mr. Taylor's Class

WE WILL NOT BE DOING ANY GRADING FOR ANY REMOTE ONLINE LEARNING. ALL REMOTE LEARNING IS YOUR CHOICE AND YOU NEED TO CHOOSE YOUR LEVEL OF ENGAGEMENT AND/or PARTICIPATION. MY GOAL IS TO GIVE FAMILIES IDEAS AND OPTIONS FOR OUR UNEXPECTED EDUCATIONAL RETREAT! 

WEEKLY REMOTE LEARNING SCHEDULE! 

MONDAY  TUESDAY  WEDNESDAY  THURSDAY  FRIDAY

Times are flexible!	Daily Schedule of Activities
7am - 8am	Early Breakfast! YES, YES, YES! Get UP and GET ready for LEARNING!  BIG HUGS AND GREETINGS FROM MR. TAYLOR! GOOOOOD MORNING!!!!!!!!!
8am - 9:30am SOCIAL STUDIES  and WORLD GEOGRAPHY  LANGUAGE ARTS    LISTENING AND SPEAKING	WATCH Most Dangerous Ways To School - Bolivia AND PAUSE THE VIDEO WHEN SOMETHING CATCHES YOUR ATTENTION, WRITE DOWN IDEAS, QUESTIONS, and WOW MOMENTS.  AFTER VIEWING the Video HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT WITH SOMEONE WHO ALSO WATCHED THE VIDEO! USE THE ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS to help guild the discussion.  ESSENTIAL DISCUSSION QUESTIONS? WHY DO PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD GO TO SCHOOL? HOW DO STUDENTS AROUND THE WORLD GET TO SCHOOL? HOW WOULD YOU COMPARE AND CONTRAST YOUR JOURNEY TO SCHOOL VS. ELMER'S JOURNEY TO SCHOOL? WHAT CAN WE LEARN ABOUT OURSELVES WHEN WE SEE HOW OTHER PEOPLE LIVE SO LITTLE?  PLEASE GIVE ME YOUR QUESTIONS AND THOUGHT IN THE COMMENTS SECTION BELOW!   Most Dangerous Ways To School - BoliviaThe Yungas Valley in Bolivia: a unique landscape, where the Andes Mountains meet the Amazon Rain Forest. In this remote section of one of the poorest countries in South America, children have a very long and incredible dangerous walk to school ahead of them. All for one goal: education – for a better life.  Seven-year-old Elmer wants to become an engineer and to build his own house, far away from the remote village. But his only way to school leads over a ravine more than 650 feet deep and about 1000 feet long: a kind of homemade zip-line. He has to entrust his live on a rusty iron pulley and a worn plastic bag. On the other side of the valley, on the summit of the mountain range, is where the sisters Helen and Mariela live. Isolated, and in the heart of the jungle. Of all the children who attend the school, the sisters live furthest away. Fear, hunger, and exhaustion are their constant companions. For them, education the key to a new, better world. And that’s why they run great risks every day in pursuit of it.  All this is more than just a walk to school – It is a test in the vast jungle. Throughout this journey they all have only one goal in mind: to ultimately find a job in a city and lead a better life. SOME BASIC ELA QUESTIONS AND IDEAS? WAS THE VIDEO TOLD IN FIRST PERSON OR THIRD PERSON POINT OF VIEW? IS THE SERIES TITLE HYPERBOLE "Most Dangerous Ways To School"?  DID THE NARRATOR OR THE CHILDREN USE AND FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE? SOME WRITING ASSIGNMENT IDEAS: CREATE A TEST FOR YOUR CLASSMATES ABOUT THE VIDEO! CREATE A LIST OF QUESTIONS YOU WOULD ASK THE CHILDREN.  WHAT WOULD YOU BRING IF YOU WHERE GOING TO DO A SLEEPOVER AND SPEND A FEW DAYS WITH THE CHILDREN?
9:30am - 10am	RECESS AND BRAIN BREAK:GO OUTSIDE! Have a HEALTHY snack! Go for walk/run. Youtube JUST DANCE!
10am - 11:30 am READING BLOCK  PICK ONE OR TWO FROM THE READING CHOICES!	FIRST CHOICE:  READ A CHAPTER OR TWO OF YOUR FAVORITE CHAPTER BOOK! Curl up with a favorite chapter book and listen along to the audio book. Audio book ideas! Alice's Adventures in Wonderland AudioBook  ♡ Audiobook ♡ Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie ♡ Timeless Classic Literature for Children Black Beauty By Anna Sewell ♡ A Timeless Spiritual Horse Lovers Classic The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett ♡ Brilliant Reading by Karen Savage Harry Potter 1 Chapter 14 Harry Potter 1 Chapter 15 Harry Potter 1 Chapter 16 Harry Potter 1 Chapter 17 SECOND CHOICE:  Reading comprehension practice on Khan Academy. It is grouped by grade level: 2nd grade 3rd grade 4th grade 5th grade 6th grade 7th grade 8th grade We recommend starting at your grade level and doing 1-2 practice sets per day (or 10 practice sets per week). This should take about 10-20 minutes per day. If you find it difficult, completely okay to start at an earlier grade level. Likewise, if you find the passages and questions to be easy, feel free to move to higher grade levels THIRD CHOICE: MOBYMAX READING INFORMATIONAL Reading Skills Informational | MobyMax www.mobymax.com › curriculum › reading-skills-informational Informational Skills. Reading Skills Informational is aligned with the Common Core standards for informational texts whose goal is to help students critically analyze complex informational texts. Progress Monitoring.  FOURTH CHOICE:  PRACTICE FOR THE LITERARY ELEMENTS TEST LITERARY ELEMENTS TEST for the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th Grade Free Online Literary elements study words:  allegory, alliteration, allusion, antagonist, assonance, character,comedy, conflict, fable, imagery, irony, metaphor, myth, onomatopoeia, paradox, parody,personification, plot, protagonist, satire, setting, simile, theme, tragedy Online LITERARY ELEMENTS Test
11:30 am - 1:00 am	LOOOONG LUNCH Break and Recess. HELP MAKING LUNCH AND TRY OUT A NEW RECIPE!  Try listyening to an educational podcast while making lunch Brains On! If you like science, Forever Ago if you like history, or Story Pirates to hear funny stories written by kids. Older students may like RadioLab If you like science, Forever Ago if you like history, or Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls if you like biographies
1:00 am - 2:20 pm MATH LAB	FIRST CHOICE:  MAKE YOUR OWN DMS AND PRACTICE MATH TOPICS YOU ARE STILL LEARNING TO MASTER!  SECOND CHOICE: KHAN ACADEMY MATH Khan Academy math practice has got your back. Depending on your confidence and grade level, one of the following courses are likely good for you: 2nd grade math 3rd grade math 4th grade math 5th grade math One practice that we’ve seen teachers and students use to great effect is to start, regardless of age, on Kindergarten and then move to 1st grade, 2nd grade, etc. Course challenges and unit tests can be used to accelerate through material. If you don’t have too many gaps, you should be able to get through a previous year’s content in 1-3 hours. If you do have gaps, it may take a bit longer, but that is good!  This is your chance to fill in those gaps that might otherwise hold you back in the future. You’ll see that if you are able to put in at least a solid 30 minutes a day of math practice and keep leveling up skills, you’ll see big gains and, most importantly, really see the world in new and exciting ways! One you are at your grade level, try to set a goal of leveling up at least 3 skills a week THIRD CHOICE: MobyMax | Fix learning gaps www.mobymax.com Award-winning MobyMax helps struggling learners quickly catch up to grade level and closeslearning gaps for all your students. Find and fix missing skills with personalized learning, pinpoint assessments, and motivating rewards. ... Administrator. School ... Create yourMobyMax login: School ... Moby for Middle School. Search Results FOURTH CHOICE: ONLINE MATH SOFTWARE1  Hour of Code Activities - Learn | Code.org code.org › learn Try a one-hour tutorial designed for all ages in over 45 languages. Join millions of students and teachers in over 180 countries starting with an Hour of Code. Sheppard Software: Fun free online learning games and ... www.sheppardsoftware.com Hundreds of fun educational games and activities for kids to play online. Topics include math, geography, animals, and more. Geography World geography quizzes galore - over 250 fun online map ... Brain Games Give your brain a workout by playing fun games that sharpen ... Math Games Free math games that make learning fun! Topics: addition ... Science Free science games and activities for kids. Learn about chemistry ... USA Geography US geography games - over 38 fun map games teach capitals, state ... Language Arts Grammar Tutorial - Magical Capitals - Easily Confused Words Math Games | Math Playground | Fun for Kids www.mathplayground.com Free, online math games and more at MathPlayground.com! Problem solving, logic games and number puzzles kids love to play. Logic Games Skill Games - The Parking Lot - Connect the Roads - Andy's Golf Math Games Hundreds of free, online math games that teach multiplication ... Grade 2 Games 2nd grade math games for free. Addition, subtraction, place ... Grade 4 Games 4th grade math games for free. Multiplication, division, fractions ... 3rd Grade Math Games 3rd grade math games for free. Multiplication, division, fractions ... Grade 1 Games 1st grade math games for free. Addition, subtraction, place ... Math.com - World of Math Online www.math.com Free math lessons and math homework help from basic math to algebra, geometry and beyond. Students, teachers, parents, and everyone can find solutions to ... ‎Math Practice · ‎Basic Math · ‎Everyday Math · ‎Algebra Ixl.com | IXL Learning | Try It For Free TodayLearn 2000+ K-12 skills online. Master tough topics. Win awards. Sign up now! Standards-basedLearning. K-12 Math & English. Adaptive & Individualized. Immediate Feedback. Courses: Math, English, Science, Social Studies. K-12 Math Practice IXL is the Web's Most Comprehensive Adaptive Math Program. Try It Now! At-Home Learning with IXL Free Webinars, Lesson Plans, & More to Keep Students Learning. Math Games | Hooda Math | Games www.hoodamath.com Play Math Games at Hooda Math. Games for School. Best Math Site for Kindergarten to College and everything in between. Math Games for learning addition, ... Escape Games Our unblocked addicting Escape games are fun and free. Also try ... Papa's Scooperia Play Papa's Scooperia Now! @ Hooda Math. Practice math ... All Games Play All Games on Hooda Math. Our unblocked addicting All ... Papa's Games Our unblocked addicting Papa's games are fun and free. Also try ... Math Games Play Math Games Now! Free Online Math Games for All, Only ... Hooda Stacker Play Hooda Stacker Now! @ Hooda Math. Practice math ... FINAL CHOICE: Mr. Taylor's DMS or 3 Minutes of Minute Math WE WILL BE SENDING OUT PACKS FOR STUDENTS WITH NO OR LIMITED INTERNET.
2:20 pm - 3:00 pm WRITING LAB	Writing practice and illustration practice  Write and illustrate a choose your own adventure story about you and your friends having an amazing adventure on your way to school.
3:00 pm-4:00 pm	Relax, go outside and take a walk, ride your bike, play a game, spend time with family.
8-9pm	Lights out, time to sleep!

READING BOOT CAMP SONG OF THE WEEK! 

ART ENRICHMENT LESSON:

Painting Sunsets in Pastel - PART 1 AND 2

DAILY PHILOSOPHY LESSON: Marcus Aurelius: LIFE CHANGING Quotes (Stoicism)

Teaching Theme and Main Idea with Music and Lyrics

Strategies to find and identify the theme in song lyrics and the main idea in poems, songs, and short stories. The theme of a short story or song is the big idea "message", moral, or lesson. Short stories, fables, and songs usually have one theme making it easier for students to identify the theme!

Examples of Popular Themes in Music and Lyrics: Love, Heartbreak, Friendship, Death/Loss, Coming of Age/Growing Up, Disillusionment/DISAPPOINTMENT, TRIUMPH, and Women's liberation.

Song lyrics, like literature and poetry use many similar themes of love, friendship, heartbreak, revenge, liberation, depression, triumph etc, Song lyrics like poetry use figurative language to convey the themes an,d main ideas instead of using literal language. Like poetry, songs try to raise the level of poetic arts by combining music, lyrics, rhythms and sometimes rhyming patterns into a transformative medium.

Step ONE! Start with an essential question! 

What are major and minor themes and how are they related to the main idea? 

Step TWO! FIND A COLLECTION OF SONGs THAT USES FIGURATIVE/LITERAL LANGUAGE TO EXPLORE THE MAJOR THEME/S. USE MULTIPLE SONGS TO COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE MAIN IDEAS AND THEMES, AND USE SONGS THAT ARE NOT COMPLETELY FIGURATIVE AND/OR LITERAL

Step THREE! Listen, sing along, and enjoy the music and lyrics. Start analyzing the lyrics and have an open non judgmental discussion of ideas and viewpoints.  

Teaching Theme with Music Lesson PlanPDF Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its ... Learning objectives: Students will be able to analyze song lyrics to determine theme.

AN INTRODUCTION TO CLOSE READING THROUGH SONG ...PDF for this lesson come from a variety of contemporary musical genres, further making ... students will be displaying their understanding of our central theme, the ... on noticing individual words, syntax, and the order in which sentences and ideas.

Building Schema: Exploring Content with Song Lyrics ... - ERICPDF validates the use of song lyrics to teach basic literacy. ... appropriate for intermediate and middle school students based on themes, depending on ... students a comfort zone to explore ideas and express logically-based opinions.

Magical Musical Tour: Using lyrics to teach literary elementsPDF Mensa Foundation Lesson Plan: MAGICAL MUSICAL TOUR. Materials. All songs ... Knowing the theme, who do you think ... pick words to fit it, creating a metaphor, simile or personification. ○ Display ... often a signal of a key idea. Ah! A hint of.

What are the Best Practices of a Successful Reading Program?

Are these exceptional ELA reading systems and processes in place at your school? Your school may need to adopt these systems and processes for successful school-wide literacy action planning, strategic planning and CNA evaluations: Reading Success and Remediation Focus

1. Adoption of a (K-6 stratified) school-wide progress monitoring system (Academic Screening and Progress Monitoring Tools), like STAR reading, I-Ready, easyCBM Reading FREE (CBM) Curriculum Based Measures! Weekly and Quarterly SFA style progress monitoring school-wide that is entered into a DBI. Being Proactive: Big GOAL is to identify students with ELA/Math needs before needing an SST Student Study Team reducing the need to place students in Special Education programs!

2. Adoption of 120-180 Minute Reading Blocks that are never interrupted with pull outs or specials. Tier 2 and 3 ELL and Special education students need to receive the highest amount of instructional time and the quality of intensive interventions should be provided by the best teachers.

3. Adoption of a DBI data-based individualization program to track all students’ progress with a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) framework that is transparent and shared with all teachers! DBI show trends and identifies students individual needs based on ongoing data collection.

4. Adoption of exceptional tier 1, 2, and intensive tier 3 ELA interventions (A multi-tier system of supports (MTSS) NOT All COMPUTER BASED) with quarterly adjustments and reviews of
outcomes using skills gap analysis! All tier 2 and tier 3 Interventions based on ongoing data- based individualization (DBI) using data collected from progress monitoring.

5. Struggling at-risk readers (reading and decoding scores 1 standard deviation or more below the mean) get a minimum of 180 minutes of intensive reading instruction daily.

6. Adoption of scientifically researched best ELA intensive Instructional strategies: Whole Brain Teaching 5 Step Lesson Plans, TPR, “SFA”, Orton-Gillingham Approach, AVID WICOR Strategies, KAGAN cooperative learning, Socratic Seminars, Marzano's Six Step Process, Structured Literacy, etc.

7. All weekly ELA tier 2 and tier 3 lesson planning must be based on academic screening tools/probes, progress monitoring, skills gap analysis, and DBI.

8. Explicit rigorous weekly parent notifications of targeted student learning goals and students’ progress. Parents need to be informed of ways they can get Involved with their child’s education to help their child thrive (Calls Home, Home Visits, School out Reach, Full Time Parent Liaison, and Class/School News Letters)

9. Adoption of a comprehensive School-wide Literacy Action Plan (SLAP) based of data collected and all stakeholders input and feedback.

10. Monthly Differentiated ELA/Math Professional Development, Book Studies, etc.

11. Stratified PLC’s meet monthly to look at progress monitoring data (DBI) and review school-wide literacy plans and reading/math curriculum

Questions for your site council, administrators, teachers, interventionist, special-education teachers, instructional support staff, instructional aides, and staff:

1. Have you developed and implement a School-wide Literacy Action Plan (SLAP! fitting acronym), and is it reviewed quarterly and yearly by school PLCs? What are your school-wide ELA goals and objectives for your staff, teachers, and students?

2. How often does the admiration or/and instructional support staff evaluate and monitor teacher ELA lesson planning? Are teachers receiving differentiated ELA PD on best instruction practices?

3. How do you track individual student ELA progress, what data do you collect, is the data useful and actionable, how do you evaluate data, and how do you share that data with staff and parents?

4. How often are school wide and individual progress monitoring probes/screens administered to develop, adapt, revise, and evaluate tier 1, tier 2, and intensive tier 3 individualize ELA programs?

5. When students are making little or no progress is there a sense of urgency to find new solutions and systems?

6. What school-wide systems (academic screening tools/probes) are in place to identify students that are at risk?

7. What are the tier 1, 2, and intensive tier 3 ELA interventions used at your school? Please list them and who provides them.

8. How effective are your tier 2, and intensive tier 3 ELA individual interventions? What does the data (skills gap analysis) tell you, what are the school-wide trends, and what is you biggest need at each grade?

9. What tier 2 and tier 3 RTI systems do you have in place for students that are not making adequate progress?

10. How do you evaluate progress monitoring data to find gaps in learning?

11. How do you evaluate, revise and adapt tier 2 and tier 3 intensive interventions to close the achievement gap?

12. What is the literacy structure at your school? Content-based learning, Skills Based Basal Reading, Balanced literacy, 4 blocks, Daily Five, etc?

Are We Warehousing Special Education Students?

Are public schools systems giving our special-needs students an unexceptional or ineffective education? 

• What are the real outcomes of full inclusion vs. pull-out?
• What is the outcome of placing the neediest students with the greenest teachers?
• What are the real cost to students that are undereducated or uneducated?

How do we teach and support our special education students in a broken system. Today, many of our special needs students are stuck in a revolving door feckless pull-out "not so special education" program. The primary goal for many schools is meeting minutes on an IEP, keeping in compliance with IDEA regulations and less about maximizing a students's learning potential. The sad thing is not much has changed since I was in a spacial education pull out program. Today many special education programs are hobled with long term subs, the greenest teachers, emergency certified teachers, giant case loads, and the weakened Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) protections for our neediest students? The ideals of an inclusive quality educational environment are lost in schools that warehouse kids. Doing the absolute minimum to stay in compliance. We are giving kids broken ladders and a poor chance to thrive! Students in these broken systems will never reach their dreams or fulfill their maximum potential. Sean Taylor M.Ed The Reading Sage

In the 2004 reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the requirement for specific objectives was removed from the mandated requirements. As a result, it is now even more critical to write clear and concise goals for students with disabilities. By doing so, educators can ensure that their students receive the appropriate support and services to help them make meaningful progress toward their educational goals. Clear goals also provide a basis for measuring a student's progress, evaluating the effectiveness of instructional strategies, and making data-driven decisions to support student learning. Therefore, it is essential for educators to develop well-defined goals that are aligned with student needs, are measurable, and are relevant to the student's educational program.

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Should All Students with Special Educational Needs (SEN) - EricPDF Traditionally, children requiring special educational needs (SEN) are segregated into separate learning environments. While this education practice has been ...

Comparing the academic performance of students with special ...PDF Columbia and Ontario ministries of education indicate that students with ... with special needs in inclusive rather than separate settings remain ... According to the Manual of Policies, Procedures and Guidelines of the B.C..

The Impact of separate special education systems on ...PDF children with disabilities are a critical part of inclusive education; how educators ... a separate special education system in addition to the general education system ... Technical manual for attitudes towards teaching all students (ATTAS-mm).

(PDF) Inclusion of Students with Disabilities: A Position PaperPDF | There would be no need to talk about inclusion if we didn't already have exclusion. ... those with disabilities and will require special education. ... children are sufficiently different as to need separate programs, separate ...

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Inclusion versus Full Inclusion

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Does Self-Contained Special Education Deliver On Its ...PDF school day or more, approximately 23% of students receive their education primarily in separate special education settings. These students are most likely to.

Special Education and the Risk of Becoming Less Educated in ...PDF segregated schools and separate classes, cross-national and regional ... or separating students with special educational needs (SEN) remains part of policies ...

Rationale For and Research on Inclusive Education - Institute ...PDF education for students with autism and other developmental disabilities. ... Special classes,separate schooling, or other removal of children with disabilities from ...

The Efficacy of Pullout Programs in Inclusion ClassroomsPDF sused a blended approach (pullout and inclusion) to meet all students' needs. ... classroom and special education teachers' perceptions on pullout programs showed that the ...

Pull-out or Push in? Impact on Students with Special Needs ...PDF Inclusion has become the standard practice in the classroom today but many students continue to be pulled out of the ...

A comparison of inclusion, pull-out, and combined approaches ...PDF when they were instructed in an inclusive, pull-out, or combined program. ...Inclusive instruction allowed the special education students to.

Inclusion of special needs students into the regular education ...PDF Part of the Curriculum and Instruction Commons, and the Special Education and Teaching ... Is inclusion really the best environment for students with disabilities? ... Any title or pull out program teachers who have worked with the student. 7.

Text Features Nonfiction and Text Structures

Explicitly teaching Nonfiction Text Features and Informational and Nonfiction Text Structures helps students analyze text, find key details quicker, gain greater background knowledge and deepens reading comprehension.

Flocabulary Text Features

Nonfiction Text Features Chart - Teaching Made Practical
PDF Nonfiction Text Features Chart. Text Feature. Purpose. Example. Title. Identifies the topic of the text/tells what the text will be about. Title Page. Tells a book's title,.

Nonfiction Text Features
PDF Text Feature Scavenger Hunt. This can be done individually or in pairs. Give students a copy of the scavenger hunt paper. They should choose a nonfiction book ...

Using Text Features
PDF For example the title page and table of contents are text features found at the beginning of a textbook. Headings, graphics, main idea boxes and bolded words are some of the text featuresfound in the chapters of their book, while glossaries and indexes are some text features found at the end of a textbook.

Using Text Features
PDF For example the title page and table of contents are text features found at the beginning of a textbook. Headings, graphics, main idea boxes and bolded words are some of the text featuresfound in the chapters of their book, while glossaries and indexes are some text features found at the end of a textbook.

Text Feature Definitions and Examples
PDF Table 1.2: Text Feature Definitions and Examples. Type of text feature and definition. How this feature helps readers. Visual example of feature. Print Features.

Nonfiction Text Features Study Guide Text Feature Purpose
PDF Use the study guide to help your child review Nonfiction Text. Features. Encourage your child to look for text features in. Nonfiction books and discuss the ...

Nonfiction Text Features Chart
PDF Nonfiction Text Features Chart. Text Feature. Purpose. Example. Title. Identifies the topic of the text and tells what the text will be about. Subtitle. Gives the reader.

Text Features Chart Title Appendix Captions Charts or tables ...
PDF Text Features Chart. Text Feature. Definition. Example. Title. Name of a literary work. It gives the reader an idea about what will be read in the book. Appendix.

Nonfiction Text Features
PDF Nonfiction Text Features. Text Feature. What Is It? Purpose. Photographs and. Illustrations. Visual Images. Help readers understand exactly what something ...

Informational Text Features
PDF Florida Sunshine State Standards: LA.910.2.2.1 – The student will analyze and evaluate information from text features (e.g., transitional devices, table of.

Is inclusion the best way? Pull-out vs. Push-in Special Ed?

Push-in vs. Pull-out in Special Ed starts with highly effective instruction for all students with disabilities! 

OPINION: Push-in Special Education models INCLUSION using a collaborative co-teaching model are best when the teaching professionals are highly trained. Special education gives us a great opportunity to improve teaching skills and a place to test best teaching practices for all students. Sean Taylor M.Ed

Two Perspectives on Inclusion In The United States - ERIC PDF
inclusion, equity, deficit perspective on inclusion, social constructivist stance on inclusion. Introduction. As we began ... who wrote in 1950s,. “in general, it is best not to segregate any ... In much the same way it is assumed that a relatively small ...

Ingredients for Inclusion: Lessons from the Literature - ERICPDF
of inclusion; a process of learning reflecting best evidence ... very effective way that New Zealand schools can ... DevelopingInclusive_Education_Systems.pdf.

What is Inclusion? - Core PDF
inclusion should be geared towards everyone with a disability, while others believe it should be ... needs in a classroom without proper support and services. ... This includes being able to adapt materials and change methods in order to help a.

Ten Top Tips for Inclusion in Schools PDF
TIP: The best way to be sure of anything is through good communication. This means communicating with students about their needs and feelings, communicating ...

Dispelling the Myths of Inclusive Education - Tash.org PDF
Inclusive education is the practice of educating students with disabilities in ... Myth #2: Students with the most significant disabilities do better when they are ... that using the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is the best way to ...

THREE KEY AREAS NEED TO BE ADDRESSED:

ONE | Proactive Teams, Goals, and Objectives Directed (IEP): Each student that is identified needing services should receive a truly Individualized (Personalised) Education Program (IEP) that is planned and developed by a team of stakeholders. These academic or social-emotional learning programs need to identify, monitor, and screen for a student's particular strengths, weaknesses, social-emotional needs, and academic needs. The IEP Goals and Objectives should reflect the formative and summative data that is collected using the initial screenings. The student receives these special education services based on the individualized needs of the student, the goal is to maintain academic progress with peers or help them close the learning gap. These individualized services need to target a student's academic goals and or social-emotional needs. The key factors to successfully implement an IEP is high quality researched based special education services and targeted progress monitoring! A Push-in Special Education model with two teachers collaborating and co-teaching working towards a common goal is more powerful in meeting the needs of their students! 

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: 

Pull-out or Push-in Special Ed are both good options, yet Push-in is BEST when done correctly! Both options can be very effective but they are both at the mercy of a broken special education system. The biggest problem in Special Education is that it is underfunded and understaffed with highly trained teachers. Many school districts treat special education services and the associated paperwork especially the IEP's as a bureaucratic nuisance. Worse yet are the schools that warehouse special ed students, each student gets a boilerplate IEP and boilerplate services! When two teachers have a common goal and shared interest, warehousing is not likely. Special education needs to be responsive, adaptable, fluid, follow a praxis process, and IEP's need to be living documents with REAL individual Goals and Objectives. What I sadly see today is a copy and past mentality, students with identical goals and objectives, the same service, and the same exact amount of time for every child! Today the norm in special education is a single overarching IEP goal and is usually one goal that is supposed to fit all students.

TWO | Best Teaching Practices (Research-Based Methods): Response to Intervention, Pull-out or Push-in Special Ed, Child Find, Specialized Instruction (Wilson Reading Program, Direct Instruction, Orton-Gillingham Approach), Progress Monitoring and Academic Testing, Multimodal IQs Assessments, student interviews, the list is gigantic. Research-Based Methods by law are used at all phases of special education, from initial placement or to determine the time, place, and duration of services provided. Every child is a gift, every child is gifted, every child is special, each child comes to school with unique abilities, strengths, weaknesses, and real needs that affect learning. All students deserve a real individual and personalized education especially our special needs students. There are so many pathways of learning, we as educators must provide these pathways and ensure that each student has the opportunity to learn in multiple ways. Special education services need to make stronger a student's strengths and bolster a student's weakness.  

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: 

We are on the verge of so many discoveries in brain research and learning theory, yet we are slow to evolve and adapt new best teaching practices. We are overly influenced by a top-down pedagogy model in the English speaking nations. We seek to over test, over-complicate curriculum, overvalue Big Data, under encouraging each other and our students. We truly develop more problems than we solve. 

THREE | Progress Monitoring (Guideding Student Success): 

Progress monitoring is the scientifically based practice of assessing students' academic performance on a regular basis for three key purposes (Research-Based Methods):

1. To determine whether students are profiting appropriately from the instructional program, including the curriculum
2. To build more effective programs for the children who do not benefit
3. To estimate rates of student improvement

Progress monitoring is a set of weekly or monthly assessment procedures for determining the extent to which students are benefiting from classroom instruction and for monitoring the effectiveness of a corrective or compensatory curriculum. Progress monitoring should be based on grade-level norms and be based on researched best practices. Progress monitoring is used to assess a student's academic progress or lack of progress and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions and instructional support. Progress monitoring tells the teacher what your child has learned and what still needs to be taught. The school interventionist and or special education teachers should be collecting weekly/monthly data and creating graphs that show the student's progress and growth.

Progress monitoring for IEPs or SSTs: Special education teacher or intervention teacher uses short formative or summative tests to evaluate a child's academic progress. The most effective progress monitoring is done every week or two with all data graphed and shared with all the stakeholders. 

        RtI Programs, Section 504, and Special Education Programs need to use valid progress monitoring tools that measure, track and identify a student's strengths and weaknesses. Schools that do not use a suite of comprehensive progress monitoring tools will leave the students and the teachers at a disadvantage. School systems today may use some form of computer-based monitoring programs like the NWEA MAP assessments and or classroom-based assessment tools like the DRA for progress monitoring. My first four years of teaching special needs students taught me the power of using comprehensive progress monitoring program 1:1 with students multiple times every quarter. Sitting with a student and assessing them vs. sitting them in front of a computer and having them take an assessment is gold vs. bronze in my opinion. 
     Helping teachers and students increase academic skills starts with valid, comprehensive, effective tools that identify strengths and weaknesses. Diagnosing academic strengths, weaknesses, and potential problems using RtI diagnostic screens and assessments is one of the first steps. The Brigance Comprehensive Inventory of Basic Skills and The Woodcock-Johnson® III Tests of Achievement are the two I was trained to use. Both are 1:1, giving the teacher great insight into a students academic attitude/aptitude, thinking and reasoning skills, confidence, perseverance, self-regulation, and overall communication skills. You miss most of that when you rely on computer-based monitoring.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: 
You can't improve student performance in reading, math, writing, science, and social studies and or social emotional intervention programs,  if you are not actively measuring progress or the lack thereof.

STAAR Writing Workshop Ideas!

5 ESSENTIAL steps for a creating a super successful STAAR Writing Workshop in your district, school, and classroom.

Step 1: Unpack and explain the assessment rules in a FUN and engaging way "STARR Writing Rubrics made fun, if that is possible"! Show student samples/anchor papers and explicitly/directly connect students' writing with the STARR scoring guides!

Step 2: Make writing a blast, Everyone is a writer when inspired! Nothing kills the love of writing like mind numbing test prep. THINK OUTSIDE OF THE BOX! Big Ideas! Example 1: One, Two or Three full days every semester should be dedicated to creating a writing/writers convention (THINK Comic-Con). Example 2: Create an à la carte writing seminar day where students get to choose their writing PD! Example 3: Your ideas...     

Step 3: Create a school that values, teaches and promotes academic listening and oracy first and foremost! Oracy the ability to express oneself fluently and grammatically in speech at a high level. 

Step 4: Create student friendly writing memory aids: mnemonic songs/chants, checklists, charts, checklist, rubrics, and yes student inspired ideas. Lots of daily "bad/ineffective" writing practice when students can't remember key writing structures is useless! Perfect practice makes perfect!

Step 5: Create a judgment free writing zone in your classroom everyday all day! Let students write, revise, edit and publish written work with peers, teachers, and friends with a great abundance of encouragement and zero fear of judgment. 

Scoring the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) Writing Essays  

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TEA scores TAKS compositions on a four-point scale, with one being the lowest score and four being the highest. We base the rubric on five criteria—focus and coherence, organization, development of ideas, voice, and conventions. We consider each of the criteria equally in the scoring of each composition. We use the same writing rubric will to evaluate TAKS compositions at all grades assessed: Grade 4 English, Grade 4 Spanish, Grade 7, Grade 10, and Grade 11 Exit Level. In all cases, the testing contractor trains scorers to consider the criteria listed in the rubric in a way that is grade-level appropriate.
Grade 4 English, Grade 7, Grade 10, and Grade 11 Exit Level (PDF)

Texas STAAR Released Writing Test with scoring guilds and Answer Keys 2019-2020 

Grade	Test Forms	Answer Keys
4
	Writing: 2019 |  2018 | 2017 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013	Writing: 2019 |  2018| 2017 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013
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	Writing: 2019 |  2018| 2017 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013	Writing: 2019 |  2018| 2017 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013
	English I: 2019 |  2018| 2017 2016 | 2015 | 2014 2013 Reading | 2013 Writing	English I: 2019 |  2018| 2017 2016 | 2015 | 2014 2013 Reading | 2013 Writing
	English II: 2019 |  2018| 2017 2016 | 2015 | 2014 2013 Reading | 2013 Writing	English II: 2019 |  2018| 2017 2016 | 2015 | 2014 2013 Reading | 2013 Writing
	Biology:2019 | 2018 | 2017 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013	Biology: 2019 |  2018| 2017 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013
	U.S. History: 2019 |  2018| 2017 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013	U.S. History: 2019 |  2018| 2017 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013

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High School Writing Handbook - HISD  PDF
all students are writing an expository essay, the content and format will be unique to the writer. ...Writing prompts often contain many details but little direction. It is ... Manual- These words and phrases are student-created; however, there are.

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First 25 Days of Writing Workshop English Language Arts - HISD PDF
There are three components to Writing Workshop: Mini-lesson, Independent ... Students may share new ideas, or a piece of writing they are particularly proud of. ... Text structure is the way in which expository text is organized to help readers ...

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Grade Launching Writing Workshop – Unit of Study. 7/2011. 1. Big Ideas/Enduring Understandings. Essential Questions. TEKS/ELPS. Foundations of Writing.

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not be able to write a perfect essay after completing this unit, the hope is that he or she will be ... 20(2).pdf Students have a hard time reading the handwriting, so having ... prompts from thesis worksheet or from list of past expository prompts-.

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Teaching Revising and Editing Skills - Texas Gateway PDF
Classroom teaching activities: Opportunities for teachers to try the strategies in the classroom and think ... Select and carefully read one of the expository essays on Handout 17. Then ... Make time for students to revise and edit their writing during class, so you can monitor and support ... Readings/SL_2011.pdf. Handout (2 of ...

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Fiction, unlike a user manual, a magazine article, or newspaper editorial, probably won't ... Choose one of the expository writing prompts from the list below and ...

What does it feel like to be Dyslexic? Dyslexia-Simulation

An experiential analogue "dyslexia-simulation" to help teachers and families understand what it really feels like to be Dyslexic and struggle with word recall and spelling recall! Understanding Dyslexia 

Ask your teaching staff, friends or family to writer their last names

in cursive using their non-dominant hand. The second twist on this test is they must write it backwards, upside-down and from right to left. All the extra processing and over thinking that it requires gives an experiential analogue of Dyslexic word recall and spelling recall!. These extra mental steps in the brains lexile systems give a small clue to the coping mechanism a dyslexic student goes through. Parents teachers, students, and families need to understand the struggle is real.

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What It Feels Like to Be a Dyslexic Reader -- Science of Us
Dyslexia has no known cure and is often paired with ADHD, making the double whammy of being unable to focus and unable to read one that leaves many students struggling. They might be told they're dumb or slow, but the fact is that dyslexics are perfectly capable people with normal levels of intelligence.

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This website shows what it's like to read when you have dyslexia
A new website has attempted to emulate the symptoms of dyslexia, ... Different people with dyslexia have different symptoms, which this simulation does not ... show you normals exactly how it truly feels to read while dyslexic.

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This website lets you experience what it is like to be dyslexic ...
Not everyone who is diagnosed with the condition experiences it in this way. However, seeing nonexistent movement in words and seeing letters like "d", "b", "p", "q" rotated is common among people with dyslexia. Commenters on the website said it was consistent with how they experienced reading a lot of the time.

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What is it like to have Dyslexia? | Dyslexic.com
If you have any questions about our awareness training sessions, feel free to get in touch with ...Do you think it's a good tool to spread dyslexia awareness?

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What dyslexics see – Dyslexia the Gift
It is possible for a dyslexic person to be able to read very well, yet find it extremely difficult or impossible to write or spell. Sometimes the writing problem is called 'dysgraphia' instead of 'dyslexia' – but we find that often these symptoms stem from the same underlying causes asdyslexia.

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Understanding Dyslexia (for Teens) - Nemours KidsHealth
Dyslexia is a learning disability in which people have difficulty learning to read, even though they are smart enough ... What's It Like to Have Dyslexia? ... You probably will read slowly and feelthat you have to work extra hard when reading.

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This is what reading is like if you have dyslexia - CNN
With a Web code, Victor Widell is making it easier for others to understand how reading with dyslexia might feel.

PL Personalized Learning Teacher Reviews

PL Overview of Personalized Learning

"The use of the term "personalized learning" dates back to at least the early 1960s, but there is no widespread agreement on the definition and components of a personal learning environment Even enthusiasts for the concept admit that personal learning is an evolving term and doesn't have any widely accepted definition. In 2005, Dan Buckley defined two ends of the personalized learning spectrum: "personalization for the learner", in which the teacher tailors the learning, and "personalization by the learner", in which the learner develops skills to tailor his own learning."  WIKI

Is PL just another pop education fad that is trying to negate the negative effects of poverty and inequality? Sean Taylor 

Here's What Educators Think About Personalized Learning
Nov 5, 2019 - When Hinton High School tested personalized learning in a big way two years ... but also put in place personalized-learning approaches, educators such as ... And teachers' use of personalized-learning technologies—such as ... Proffitt, however, gave her district's professional development a rave review.

Against Personalized Learning - Education Week
Nov 7, 2017 - Like other efforts to improve U.S. schools, personalized learning is getting ... as research-and-development, with many experiments taking place at once, ... An educationprofessor at the University of California, Los Angeles, ...

Personalized  Learning Debate
"Andy Hargreaves and Dennis Shirley write that while there are advantages in students being able to access information instantly on-line, one should not mistake such processes for "something deeper, more challenging, and more connected to compelling issues in their world and their lives".
Alfie Kohn wrote that while personalized learning may sound like a useful strategy for education, in practice it's mostly just about selling technology products. Personalized learning promises a strategy to specifically adjust education to the unique needs and skills of individual children, he argued, but really it means merely "adjusting the difficulty level of prefabricated skills-based exercises based on students' test scores... [and] requires the purchase of software from one of those companies that can afford full-page ads in Education Week". While "certain forms of technology can be used to support progressive education", Kohn wrote, "...meaningful (and truly personal) learning never requires technology. Therefore, if an idea like personalization is presented from the start as entailing software or a screen, we ought to be extremely skeptical about who really benefits." WIKI

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