Lesson Plan Revisions

1.  Select four lesson plans from last quarter to revise OR if you know what you will be teaching in Spring quarter, you can develop new plans that you will use.

2.  Re-write (or write) the lessons to demonstrate your ability to create accommodations for a:

1. receptive communication disorder
2. specific learning disability - you choose the type
3. ADHD
4. behavioral disorder - specify the problem behaviors

3.  Base your revisions and accommodations on information from our text, Teaching Exceptional, Diverse, and At-Risk Students. Feel free to use information from any chapter in the text. At least one of the revisions must use a content area strategy discussed in Chapter 15. DO NOT SIMPLY SAY THAT YOU WILL USE COOPERATIVE GROUPS, MORE CAPABLE PEERS, OR REDUCED REQUIREMENTS.

4.  Your lesson plans should be fully developed - goals, objectives, EALRs, steps, assessments, etc.

5.  In addition, indicate in your lesson plan revisions WHERE in the text you found the information and provide a rationale for WHY you chose the particular accommodation or strategy for the particular lesson.

One way that teachers can improve educational outcomes for students with disabilities is to appropriately accommodate instruction and expectations. The other way is to improve the likelihood that the students will be accepted and valued by other students. This acceptance rarely comes if teachers simply rely on proximity or heterogeneous grouping without working on classroom climate.

Taking into account the age of your students in spring quarter and the content you'll be teaching, outline a unit of study you might use to help your students understand the variability and diversity of human characteristics and challenges. The goal is to attempt to increase your students' acceptance and valuing of each other.

Provide a rationale for your unit, daily objectives, and ideas about learning experiences you might use. You must include several of the children's or adolescent books included in the annotated bibliography linked to our home page with an explanation of how you would use the books. You do not need to include assessments or step-by-step daily procedures.