Journey Summary
This session provides you with the opportunity to explore student interests, preferences, and needs data, so you can make informed instructional decisions for your classroom. After analyzing student data, you will explore instructional strategies to find the ones that best meet the needs of your students. This session also introduces a variety of digital tools to assist in organizing, analyzing, and representing data to make it easier to understand and interpret the data.
Curriculum-framing Questions
Essential Question
- Is there one best way to learn?
Unit Questions
- How might meeting a variety of individual needs enhance the learning for all?
- What engages learners in learning?
Content Questions
- What is a student learning profile?
- How might analyzing student data support the development of learning activities that meet the needs of all learners?
- How can digital tools support and enhance data organization, analysis and representation?
- How might teachers design activities that are based on standards and support student learning needs?
Introduction
Students have a wide variety of learning needs and preferences. Our learners come to us with varied experiences and differing levels of prior knowledge. The more we know about our students, the better equipped we are to design learning experiences that are meaningful and engaging to meet their needs. Understanding these student differences prepares to meet those needs in classroom, remote, or hybrid learning environments with the support of technology and constructivist learning practices.
Theory Behind Practice
All eMINTS materials are grounded in research-based best practices in K-12 education.
Digging Deeper
Agenda
- Opener: Uncommon Commonalities
- Analyzing Student Data
- Creating Learning Profiles
- Balloon Juggle
- Meeting the Needs of Learners
- Instructional Strategies for All Learners
- Closer: Squares, Triangles, Circles
Classroom Visit w/Students
- To meet the needs of your students, ask your facilitator to assist in implementing some of the instructional strategies you learned about during the session.
Classroom Visit w/out Students
- Ask your facilitator to assist in analyzing student data and developing learning profiles.
- Engage in planning conversations around the development of instructional activities that meet the needs of diverse learners.
- Collaborate and review the student inventory data and student learning profile cards to help make instructional decisions for upcoming lessons.
- Work with Google Forms, Sheets and Slides to enhance skills.
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