+ Inclusive Teaching: The Journey Towards Effective Schools for All Learners, 2e Peterson / Hittie © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Chapter 12 Inclusive Academic Instruction Multilevel Differentiated Instructional Activities

Inclusive Teaching: The Journey Towards Effective Schools for All Learners, 2e Peterson / Hittie © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 2 Two Social Studies Classes One for Sleeping; the Other for Learning Garland Heights High School  Lecture  Facts review sheet  Multiple choice test  Students playing around and sleeping  Special needs student is discouraged Highlander High School  Role playing a historical event  Groups play a particular group studying the position of each  Each student has unique contributions to make to the group  A student with a significant disability strengthens the learning of all as students support him

Inclusive Teaching: The Journey Towards Effective Schools for All Learners, 2e Peterson / Hittie © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 3 Sights to See Multilevel Project-based Learning Learning Landscape technology-video A Night in the Global Village: Role- Playing Life in Poverty Smart Moves movement-video

Inclusive Teaching: The Journey Towards Effective Schools for All Learners, 2e Peterson / Hittie © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 4 Step 4. Inclusive Instructional Strategies Introduction to Workshop Learning  Identify the topic and learning goals for the students  Start with a short mini-lesson related to needed skills  Interaction of individual, paired, and small group work  Engage in study and work to develop a product that demonstrates learning  Peer conferences to obtain feedback from other students  Publishing, sharing their work

Inclusive Teaching: The Journey Towards Effective Schools for All Learners, 2e Peterson / Hittie © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 5 Workshop Learning Different Variations  Subject-based workshop - reading, writing, math  Inquiry and problem- based learning  Expeditionary learning  Micro-society  Community-based learning  Service learning experiences

Inclusive Teaching: The Journey Towards Effective Schools for All Learners, 2e Peterson / Hittie © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 6 Inquiry And Authoring Cycle  Connect to life experiences  Develop questions and plan approach  Gather information  Draft product  Explore meaning  Revise content  Obtain help in editing  Share and publish  Build skills for inquiry  Plan new inquiries

Inclusive Teaching: The Journey Towards Effective Schools for All Learners, 2e Peterson / Hittie © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 7 Workshop Learning 3 Approaches to Learning Activities 1.Multilevel learning activities 2.Tiered lessons 3.Individualized differentiation and curriculum adaptations

Inclusive Teaching: The Journey Towards Effective Schools for All Learners, 2e Peterson / Hittie © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 8 Workshop Learning Multilevel Learning Activities  Skill Learning Via Authentic, Applied Activities  Open-Ended Individual Projects Independent Inquiry and Problem-based Learning Learning contracts Learning Centers Authentic Homework  Open-Ended Group Projects Learning activities in which students function naturally at their own level of ability

Inclusive Teaching: The Journey Towards Effective Schools for All Learners, 2e Peterson / Hittie © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 9 Strategies for Multilevel Teaching Cross Subject Tools  Art to convey meaning  Inquiry projects at different levels  Partial participation in learning activities  Cooperative learning groups (students with different abilities contribute to the total group)  Support and scaffolding to provide assistance for students to complete activities they could not do alone  Pair-share information  Heterogeneous partners  Students chose own topics  Student-led portfolio conferences

Inclusive Teaching: The Journey Towards Effective Schools for All Learners, 2e Peterson / Hittie © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 10 Strategies for Multilevel Teaching Literacy  Choice of books at different levels  Buddy reading  Read-alouds  Individual writing goals  Stick-figure drawing to write a story line  Individual spelling lists  Writing poetry

Inclusive Teaching: The Journey Towards Effective Schools for All Learners, 2e Peterson / Hittie © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 11 Strategies for Multilevel Teaching Science  Experiments with different group roles identified  Note-taking using graphic organizers  Informational reading at many levels  Heterogeneous work groups help each other with assignments

Inclusive Teaching: The Journey Towards Effective Schools for All Learners, 2e Peterson / Hittie © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 12 Strategies for Multilevel Teaching Math  Math games  Learning groups based on student interest and readiness  Math projects with multiple types of tasks and levels to choose from  Whole class interest related community projects  Heterogeneous practice groups

Inclusive Teaching: The Journey Towards Effective Schools for All Learners, 2e Peterson / Hittie © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 13 Strategies for Multilevel Teaching Social Studies  Projects that allow students different roles  Dramatic role play of social and historical situations  Write songs, poems, stories etc. that show learning  Involve local people with interviews, visits, and projects

Inclusive Teaching: The Journey Towards Effective Schools for All Learners, 2e Peterson / Hittie © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 14 Journey into the Classroom Inclusive, Creative Writing in Middle School 1.Moving from poetry to memoirs to expository text and fiction 2.Free writing 3.Poetry - list poems, reading aloud, craft - eg. importance of 3’s 4.Memoir deepens thinking - heart and neighborhood map; getting out of being stuck

Inclusive Teaching: The Journey Towards Effective Schools for All Learners, 2e Peterson / Hittie © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 15 Workshop Learning Teacher-designed Leveled Lessons  Tiered Assignments and Products  Curriculum Compacting  Tiered Games for Practice and Review Learning activities where teachers develop different activities at varied levels of challenge

Inclusive Teaching: The Journey Towards Effective Schools for All Learners, 2e Peterson / Hittie © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 16 Language Arts HistoryMathArt Play regarding civil rights. XX X Personal reflections XX Interview a lawyer or civil rights leader XX Learning Activities and Subjects Matrix

Inclusive Teaching: The Journey Towards Effective Schools for All Learners, 2e Peterson / Hittie © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 17 Multiple Intelligences A Tool for Inclusive Workshop-based Learning  A way of looking at multiple types of ways of being smart  Build on strengths  Focus on how students think, what they love, what they need in learning  Frequent mismatch between student intelligences and school instruction  Each person possesses all 8 intelligences  Each is interactive with the other  Use multiple intelligences to understand students’ misbehavior in class

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Inclusive Teaching: The Journey Towards Effective Schools for All Learners, 2e Peterson / Hittie © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 19 Logical- Mathemat ical Naturalist Linguistic Spatial Bodily- Kinesthetic MusicalInterperso nal Intra- personal MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES PLANNING CIRCLE

Inclusive Teaching: The Journey Towards Effective Schools for All Learners, 2e Peterson / Hittie © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 20 Multiple Intelligences Planning Matrix

Inclusive Teaching: The Journey Towards Effective Schools for All Learners, 2e Peterson / Hittie © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 21 Scaffolding Learning to Strengthen Understanding  Support for zone of proximal development – next level of learning  Effective scaffolds are: Multilevel Inclusive Promote higher order thinking Dynamic and evolving

Inclusive Teaching: The Journey Towards Effective Schools for All Learners, 2e Peterson / Hittie © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 22 Scaffolding Learning to Strengthen Understanding Some Examples  Teacher or student reads a book of interest to a student that is too hard for him  A reading buddy helps a student with words she does not know  One student writes for another student who finds it difficult to write  A teacher provides a pictorial guide for a student in assignments  New vocabulary is pre-taught  Students act out a scene in a novel

Inclusive Teaching: The Journey Towards Effective Schools for All Learners, 2e Peterson / Hittie © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 23 Scaffolding Learning to Strengthen Understanding Tools  Copy search  Highlighting  Summarizing key points  Develop study guides for lessons  Journaling

Inclusive Teaching: The Journey Towards Effective Schools for All Learners, 2e Peterson / Hittie © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 24 Types of Journaling

Inclusive Teaching: The Journey Towards Effective Schools for All Learners, 2e Peterson / Hittie © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 25 Step 5. Individualized Differentiation of Learning Activities Strategies  No Differentiation  Adapted teaching strategies  Adaptations of various parts of the lesson - learning goals, materials, teaching strategies, and activities  Parallel activities

Inclusive Teaching: The Journey Towards Effective Schools for All Learners, 2e Peterson / Hittie © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 26 Tools and Strategies for Inclusive Workshop Learning  Whole Class Mini-lessons and Discussions  Student Collaboration and Peer Support Flexible Grouping Class-wide Peer Tutoring Partner Reading Work Groups “Jigsaw” Partner Clocks Students as Experts Students as Experts Experiments Experiments

Inclusive Teaching: The Journey Towards Effective Schools for All Learners, 2e Peterson / Hittie © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 27 Tools and Strategies for Inclusive Workshop Learning  Small Group Mini-lessons Strategy Lessons Group Reflections and Dialogue Learning Logs  Student Conferences  Peer Conferences and Testing  Publishing  Sharing and Celebrations

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Inclusive Teaching: The Journey Towards Effective Schools for All Learners, 2e Peterson / Hittie © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 29 Multilevel Learning Materials  Written materials at many levels of ability  Use of graphics to enhance information  Tools by which written materials are read aloud  Quality internet sites  Picture booklets showing step by step directions  Powerpoint presentations of key information  Thinking worksheets

Inclusive Teaching: The Journey Towards Effective Schools for All Learners, 2e Peterson / Hittie © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 30 Including Students in Lecture-Worksheet-Test Instruction  Lecture and group discussion  Think-pair-share  Powerpoint  Supports for note-taking  Alternatives to lecture  Tests at differing ability levels  Reduce number of items  Review sheets

Inclusive Teaching: The Journey Towards Effective Schools for All Learners, 2e Peterson / Hittie © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 31 Bumps in the Road Dealing with a Required Prescriptive Curriculum  The search for ‘teacher proof’ curriculum and instruction - many school districts are using, particularly in schools that serve many children of color  What to do? Be clear about your beliefs If the curriculum has elements of workshop learning emphasize these Connect student workshop learning experiences with categories of the prescribed curriculum Publicly show student work and label it with required elements of the prescribed curriculum

Inclusive Teaching: The Journey Towards Effective Schools for All Learners, 2e Peterson / Hittie © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 32 Back Pack Universal Design for Learning & Project-based Learning Access Center Edutopia Project-based Learning Online