Equity in the Classroom by

Purpose

macjohns — 2024-05-20 00:07:28 UTC

This is a teacher tool-kit to help maximize equity in the classroom and to improve student autonomy. Students are often taught course material in one specific way, without students' voices being heard. This lack of autonomy results in student outbursts during class, low retention rates, and general distaste for learning. This padlet shares resources for teachers by providing articles, websites, and videos introducing different methods and ways to teach students. These resources are aimed to provide students with more autonomy and to provide opportunities to learn at their own paces. Since students are more likely to complete work and engage in material that they have a choice to, I feel that these resources will be good in one tool-kit. My goal with the completion of this tool-kit is provide teachers resources and tools to motivate and provide students with an equitable opportunity to take control of their own learning!

Differentiation Lesson Planning Tool

macjohns — 2024-05-20 00:11:00 UTC

Diffit is a website that allows a teacher to tailor lesson plans and activities for students. This is considered a differentiation tool because it allows for teachers to modify and alter the lesson plan to different reading levels and allows for many different formats for students to complete. This differentiation tool has been extremely helpful to provide students with alternative ways to learn their material.

Differentiating Instruction Strategies

macjohns — 2024-05-20 00:12:53 UTC

This youtube video discusses ways to plan lessons in order to accommodate students that may be early finishers or those who take longer on assignments. There is also discussion about how to prepare materials for students on both ends of the range from most proficient to least proficient.

Why, How, and Examples - Differentiated Instruction

macjohns — 2024-05-20 00:14:36 UTC

This youtube video explains the importance for differentiated instruction in the classroom due to engagement and strengths/weaknesses. This video provides many examples of situations where differentiated instruction can be utilized and how it can be utilized!

Choice Boards in the Science Classroom

macjohns — 2024-05-20 12:05:05 UTC

This resource shares a new way to have students engage in note-taking by using choice boards. This provides the student with autonomy on how they prefer to take and retain information during the note-taking portion of the science classroom. Since every student has their own preferences, providing a choice in their notes that they must study is brilliant.

Digital Choice Boards for Science Teachers

macjohns — 2024-05-20 12:05:59 UTC

This resource provides ideas for ways to incorporate choice boards in the classroom. As technology has advanced, so has the classroom implementation of assignments. This resources focuses on digital choice boards but it can be made into physical, paper copies just as easy.

Student Autonomy Strategies

macjohns — 2024-05-20 12:07:09 UTC

These are 6 ways or strategies to allow for students to have more autonomy in the classroom. This autonomy helps students have access to all opportunities in the classroom and to have a say in their learning to focus on a more student-centered classroom.

Methods for Teaching Science Webpage

macjohns — 2024-05-20 12:13:29 UTC

This resource is very helpful in guiding and deciding which teaching method may best fit your classroom or based on the activity your classroom is trying to learn about. There are many different student-centered methods for teaching provided in this resource.

UDL Explained

macjohns — 2024-05-20 23:48:53 UTC

I found this youtube video essential because it provided not only an explanation of what UDL is but also how too implement UDL in the classroom. This included information on how to alter assessments, reach out to your district for aid in providing students the opportunities for autonomy, and how important collaboration with educators is.

Guided Inquiry for Science Webpage

macjohns — 2024-05-22 20:02:37 UTC

This webpage provides the methodology of guided inquiry in science. The resource provides a concept map of how student-centered guided inquiry should take place in the classroom along with information about the teaching methods, steps, etc. This is a good tool to use in the science classroom.

Modeling STEM Professional Development Opportunities

macjohns — 2024-05-22 21:15:50 UTC

This resource is a professional development resource providing educators with opportunities to learn about modeling instruction in STEM classrooms. This is a resource that can be used to help educators learn how to implement student-centered lessons.

5 Strategies for Equitable Lesson Plans

macjohns — 2024-05-22 22:16:05 UTC

This webpage simply lists 5 strategies that can be used to make a secondary classroom more equitable. This resource helps with forming lesson plans that are focused on equity based around the student and their needs in the classroom.

Reducing Barriers to Learning - UDL

macjohns — 2024-05-22 22:21:08 UTC

This article discusses barriers that individuals may face in the classroom and how UDL can be implemented to reduce and break down these barriers. I find this article very interesting because it emphasizes the importance of doing your best, although you cannot be perfect, when trying to give students opportunities to prevent gaps in their education.

macjohns — 2024-05-22 22:22:23 UTC

Teaching Methods to Provide Equity in the Secondary Science Classroom

Differentiated Instruction for Secondary Teachers

UDL for Secondary Teachers

Lesson Planning Tools for Secondary Teachers

UDL Tools for Lesson Planning

macjohns — 2024-05-22 22:28:04 UTC

This website has many different templates, links, and planning tools to use to create a lesson plan using UDL. This website has guidelines and lesson ideas for all grades and subject areas.

5 Examples of UDL in the Classroom

macjohns — 2024-05-23 00:37:23 UTC

This article was intriguing to me because it gave 5 examples in a clear and concise format of how to implement UDL in the classroom to meet the needs of every student.

Why We Need Differentiation Now More Than Ever!

macjohns — 2024-05-23 00:40:14 UTC

I have included this article because it touches on the importance of differentiation when all learners were struggling, during the COVID pandemic time. This is still very applicable to not only face-to-face classrooms but also virtual classrooms. This article displays a different perspective on differentiation.

What Differentiated Instruction Really Means

macjohns — 2024-05-23 00:44:42 UTC

I have included this article as it is a follow-up article created by the author of "Why We Need Differentiation Now More than Ever". I decided to include this because it provides reasons why it is still of the utmost importance in a classroom even after COVID has ended. It also presents strategies and where to start when identifying what the teachers and students really need in the classroom.

20 Differentiated Instruction Strategies and Examples

macjohns — 2024-05-23 00:54:28 UTC

This website provides strategies and examples that can be downloadable to be used in your own classroom. This is a large list that can be altered and adjusted accordingly but is a good starting point when trying to introduce differentiated instruction.

Flyer

macjohns — 2024-05-23 01:06:07 UTC