sed on your reading from this week and your personal/professional experiences, explain and discuss your favorite strategies for adapting materials, tasks, and assignments. Share some (2 or 3) ideas you have of your own of how you might adjust, create, and/or customize curriculum, materials, assignments, and/or activities to meet diverse student needs in an inclusive classroom.
Then, review the article, Differentiation through flexible grouping: Successfully reaching all readers. While reading the article, consider some of the methods for adapting materials and using differentiated groupings in inclusive classrooms. How would you utilize flexible grouping effectively in your inclusive classroom?
Resource:
Ford, M.P. (2005, December). Differentiation through flexible grouping: Successfully reaching all readers. Learning Point. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED489510.pdf
Readings
1. Cirillo, M., Drake, C., Herbel-Eisenmann, B., & Hirsch, C. (2009, August). Curriculum vision and coherence: Adapting curriculum to focus on authentic mathematics. The Mathematics Teacher, 103(1), 70-75. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20876521
- To access this resource, you must be logged into Moodle and the Library and Information Resource Network (LIRN) This resource discusses ways to adapt curriculum materials such as your subject textbooks. Many educators adapt curriculum materials to use in combination with the school textbook to meet student needs.
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2. Cohen, R. & Barczyk, R. (2015). Adapting materials to meet your classroom needs [Presentation slides]. American English. https://americanenglish.state.gov/files/ae/resource_files/webinar_15.2_-_slides_for_ae.pdf
- This webinar focuses on the aspect of finding a resource to use or a portion of a textbook that is suitable for the topic of a lesson of instruction, but not suitable to meet the needs of all students in the classroom. Adapting materials is discussed from the aspect of meeting student learning levels, context of topics, cultural awareness, and so forth. Focus should be on slides 3-51.
3. Ford, M.P. (2005, December). Differentiation through flexible grouping: Successfully reaching all readers. Learning Point Associates. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED489510.pdf
- Reading should be concentrated on pages 1-29 to become knowledge of the different types of groupings that can be used in reading instruction. How to use the groups effectively is reviewed in-depth.
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4. Gomez, C. L., Kurz, T.L., & Jimenez-Silva, M. (2011, November). Your inner English teacher. Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 17(4), 238-243. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.5951/mathteacmiddscho.17.4.0238.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A908affbf76b2b38cf80ba3c835076dc7
- This article provides an overview of how teachers can meet the needs of English Language Learners in the classroom by adjusting phrases and wording of instructional materials.
5. McDonald. L. (2014, September 19). Flexible grouping as a differentiated instruction strategy. Teach Hub. http://www.teachhub.com/flexible-grouping-differentiated-instruction-strategy
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- le grouping is described in this resource. Use of flexible grouping arranging is described for how to use grouping techniques with differentiated instruction and to meet inclusive classroom needs.
6. Scanlon, D., & Baker, D. (2012, November). An accommodations model for the secondary inclusive classroom. Learning Disability Quarterly, 35(4), 212-224. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41702375
- This resource provides discussion into the application and use of accommodations in inclusive classrooms. Assessments, effective practice, regular and special education teacher perspectives, and an accommodation model for best practice are reviewed.
7. Ward, B.A. (1987). Instructional grouping in the classroom. School Improvement Research Series. https://educationnorthwest.org/sites/default/files/InstructionalGrouping.pdf
- This is an older resource, but it has many great ideas in it about how an educator can use different arrangements of groups in the classroom to meet student needs and increase student achievement.
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