Session+5

=Week Five Assignments= ==

Welcome to Session 5 The feedback given during last night’s Face-to-Face was very helpful. We appreciate your input and as a result have made some modifications. Weekly assignments should continue to be posted on your personal page, but the general session discussion will now be used to provide feedback to your design team. We hope this will increase the amount and quality of feedback given to each participant. Here are the steps for posting to the general session discussion: This week you will be completing and posting a Peer Review for each design team partner. The Peer Review can be found on page 247. Each Peer Review that you complete should be uploaded to your design partner’s personal page. Once you have reviewed the feedback given by your team-mates, revise your unit plan. Read the online article and visit the TEAMS website for suggestions on how to differentiate your lessons. The directions for accessing TEAMS can be found on the Resource page of our wiki. Once your unit plan has been revised, create and post a fully developed lesson plan for one lesson you will teach next week. A lesson plan template can be found on the Resources page. Though it is not mandatory, we encourage each of you to create a class profile or use the Analyzing Student Work template to analyze your pre-assessments. There are many assignments due this week; please make every attempt to complete them as promptly as possible. Remember that Technology Support will be provided on Monday, March 30th and Thursday, April 2nd from 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm at OIIT. * Monday, March 30th is a new date.
 * 1)  Start a new thread with a title that begins with your name (i.e. write your name in the subject line).
 * 2)  Your first posting should inform your design team that your homework has been uploaded to your personal participant page and ask for any feedback that would be particularly helpful… e.g. “Any suggestions for how to differentiate the lesson for advanced students?” or “I’m still struggling with my essential questions… how can I make them more open-ended?”
 * 3)  Comments, feedback and suggestions for each participant’s work should be provided under the posting that contains his or her name in the title.
 * 4)  Be sure to provide feedback to your design team that is prompt and thoughtful.
 * 5)  Though it is not mandatory, feel free to comment on the work of other participants.

Session Topic:
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 * = **Face-to-Face Session #2 (3/24)

Connecting with design partners and other participants; Looking at student work; Developing a class profile; Differentiating for ELL, SpEd, &/or advanced students; Introducing lesson plan format(s); Guidelines for using L4L to videotape in the classroom, Introduction to TEAMS eModules**

Bring a class list and results of your pre-assessment to this session ||= Read UbD Workbook pp. 242 & 245

MassOne Resources: NCAC Differentiated Instruction Effective Classroom Practices Report, June 2002 [|NCAC.pdf]

TEAMS eModule on Differentiated Instruction ||= **Post Online** How will you differentiate your lessons to meet the needs of your students?

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Complete Peer Review (p. 247) with regard to your design partner(s) unit plans and post online.

Revise your unit plan based on your design partner’s feedback.

Create a fully developed lesson plan for at least one of the lesson(s) you plan to teach next week. ||