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- Housekeeping
- Conceptual work, topic #1: Assessment (& instruction!) with diverse learners: A lifetime of learning to be done here, but we will focus on building you a "survival kit" of strategies
- Teacher behaviors: Lots of possibilities, but I'll focus on sheltered instruction
- Experience it
- Go to http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/mcontent/behavior-understanding-sheltered-instruction/
- One partner watch video #1 while the other one watches video #2.
- After you watch: Write down what you think the teacher's lesson was about, then compare. The viewer of video #2 should have a MUCH clearer idea of what happened – why?
- Watch video #3. Again, this should be easier for you. Why?
- Think through the implications for your instruction – what did these experiences teach you?
- Background info
- Note how this used to be something that only ESL teachers did: http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED301070.pdf
- ...but now it's part of inclusive practices in mainstream classrooms, too: http://englishlanguagenow.com/uploads/Sheltered_Instruction_for_Mainstream[1].pdf
- Now you think it through in terms of your own instruction – re-visit one or both of your microteaching lessons – how would / should you change it to include the techniques of sheltered instruction?
- Experience it
- Modifying materials
- Modifying documents: Read http://teachinghistory.org/teaching-materials/teaching-guides/23560 – be sure to follow the links to the sample documents
- Modifying assessments: Go to http://wwwesl4teachers.scsk12pbworks.orgcom/scsw/subject-areasfile/ESLfetch/PDFs51759716/Hurleys-ESL-Modifications.pdf and read the "Assessment Modifications" on pp. 2-3.
- Finally, go to http://www.pdesas.org/module/assessment/Search.aspx and retrieve some PDE-recommended assessment items. (I recommend "History", "5th grade"– to see less textually-driven questions, also add "constructed response".) Try your hand at adapting these items (both text-only and visually-driven) for ELLs.
- Differentiation of student assignments – many possibilities here, but we're going with RAFT (Role-Audience-Format-Topic)
- Go to http://delicious.com/tchammond/RAFT and review the links – start at the bottom and work your way up. View things with a critical eye.
- Discuss: What merit does this approach have? In ways can a RAFT be inclusive?
- Prepare one or more ideas to present to the class.
- Graphic organizers – in general, you want to be multi-sensory; within that advice, I recommend being as visual & spatial as possible – graphic organizers let you do both!
- Two different typologies of graphic organizers
- (Feel free to include material from other classes, if you can)
- Re-visit one or both of your microteaching lessons – how would / should you change it to include the techniques of sheltered instruction?
- Two different typologies of graphic organizers
- Teacher behaviors: Lots of possibilities, but I'll focus on sheltered instruction
- Conceptual work, concept #2: Economics education! Long-delayed, but here it is.
- Economics & the curriculum & you
- Economics as integration: Classic lesson topic = Great Depression. Here's a sample lesson from Social Ed, but there are lots of other ways to get at this.
- Economics as a representation / simplification / model. Examples: micro S & D, macro AS & AD. Competing policy implications of different models of AS & AD. I'm using ThinkEconomics here -- it's worth playing with & exploring. Bookmark it for later.
- Demo lessons
- Play-Doh Economics, from Indiana's Council for Economic Ed. You can get the first edition online for free; the second edition you have to buy (Amazon).
- Activity de-brief -- what was learned: concepts? Skills? Attitudes?
- A market in wheat. This is a CLASSIC lesson. I first encountered it in the 'Morton' books for teaching AP Econ--it's also available in a CEE publication via Google Books: lesson, entire book.
Activity de-brief -- what was learned: concepts? Skills? Attitudes? Any citizenship development going on here?– can't do activity; not enough students
- Play-Doh Economics, from Indiana's Council for Economic Ed. You can get the first edition online for free; the second edition you have to buy (Amazon).
- A critical stance on economics education (in the US, at least): where's the non-capitalism? Example of Islamic banking, etc. Related links
- Price anchoring & the world of behavioral economics: Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational.
- Importance of framing ('death tax' vs. 'estate tax'): George Lakoff's Metaphors We Live By – for a more contemporary application, see Don't Think of an Elephant.
- 'The poverty tax' – gambling and household income: Clotfelter, Cook, Edell, & Moore, 1999.
- Setting up the system to default to success: Thaler & Sunstein's Nudge.
- Opportunities to think critically & address citizenship/global citizenship:
- VisualizingEconomics.com – for example, http://visualizingeconomics.com/blog/2010/03/15/federal-tax-rates-by-income-for-single-filers-2009
- ...and the issue of microfinance (e.g.,Kiva.org), et al.
- Closure: Bringing together geography, economics, civics, and history: gapminder.org
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