https://padlet.com/bwilliamson9/sttwrcba7jit Share an example of how you adapted an assignment to meet the needs of one of your students. en-us 2019-01-10 21:45:40 UTC 2025-09-27 04:08:02 UTC hello@padlet.com kmonahan21 https://padlet.com/bwilliamson9/sttwrcba7jit/wish/331934993 When I was student teaching in first grade, I had an ELL student who was reading at a kindergarten level. She was still working on a few of her letter identification (both names and sounds) and reading CVC words. For many end of unit reading/writing assignments, the students were expected to summarize the story we had been reading by drawing 4 pictures and writing 2-3 sentences for each picture. In the beginning of the year, we had her tell us what she wanted to write and we wrote it out word for word for her to copy. Although it felt strange, we had to remain completely silent and look only at the paper so she wouldn't look to us for approval or change what she was going to say. The more sight words and CVC words she was able to spell, the more independence she was expected to have. Of course, at first her requirement was not immediately "write 2-3 sentences". It started with her writing out key words, then three word phrases, then one sentence, etc. It was amazing to watch her grow and see her write a complete sentence by the end of the year! Granted she was still behind grade level, but the level of confidence had grown immensely. ]]> 2019-02-15 23:07:06 UTC https://padlet.com/bwilliamson9/sttwrcba7jit/wish/331934993 https://padlet.com/bwilliamson9/sttwrcba7jit/wish/332032786 I almost fried my brain trying to adapt the math lesson for this week, Transformations. The school was covering in-depth the topics of reflection, rotation, and translations. Needless to say, none of the students needed help with translations, you can at the easiest teaching level, count the lines on the grid/graph paper in every direction. Rotations were much more difficult. The IR students were confused, some don't even know a 4-quadrant graph confidently yet. So for some students I taught with tangrams and have them a visual. For other students I was rotating their paper and making them count the lines instead of making coordinate plots. When it came to reflections we started to get stuck. Reflect over y=3 is unimaginable to some of our students. I was even having a hard time. So the math teachers and I modified the assignment and only had the students reflect over x and y axis only. The IR students are now working online with ShapeMods in Mathplayground to help teach and reinforce the 3 transformations. I have found a way to teach reflections like y=3 with a highlighter to mark the line which will be reflected over, then students draw the original shape, and count up or down from the reflection line (sounds super confusing but on paper and visually its really easy). ]]> 2019-02-16 19:41:07 UTC https://padlet.com/bwilliamson9/sttwrcba7jit/wish/332032786 https://padlet.com/bwilliamson9/sttwrcba7jit/wish/332036396
I have a wide range of abilities throughout my 3 language arts classes. I love using NEWSELA to adjust difficulty for text. NEWSELA allows me to give multiple students the same article with the same pictures but at various reading levels. This allows everyone to participate. My students who are working on letters/sounds and sight words are able to join the conversation based on the pictures and other students input, while highlighting sight words they are working on. They have a list in their folder to as a reference of all the words they have learned this year. I need to make another sight word Uno game.

In math, I find it easier to meet kids where they are at. Students can choose from addition, subtraction, multiplication or division during independent work. As math is a non desired task for many of my students, I try to provide as much choice as possible in addition to math games and Kahoots for collecting data.]]> 2019-02-16 20:17:58 UTC https://padlet.com/bwilliamson9/sttwrcba7jit/wish/332036396 https://padlet.com/bwilliamson9/sttwrcba7jit/wish/332174787 One of my students experiences significant OCD in combination with an Autism diagnosis and one of the ways it manifests itself is through his handwriting. He can become very upset if his handwriting is not absolutely perfect. He will erase and rewrite letters multiple times and when prompted to move forward he will become very anxious. Naturally, assignments can take an extremely long time and while his is an intelligent student his grades quickly began to drop because he was never able to finish his assignments. First, we tried modifying his assignments by having him only complete half of the problems. This didn’t solve his anxiety issue though, and he would still become very upset about his imperfect (by his standards!) handwriting. Next, we tried having a preferred TA scribe his answers for him. We quickly found this wouldn’t work though, as he would become upset that he needed extra help because he desired to be like all the other students in the class. After trying both of these approaches I met with our school’s occupational therapist and completed paperwork to provide this student with a computer to type his answers. We knew my student was very skilled with the computer and typing his answers would eliminate the need for him to write. We found the computer to be a success and my student has been using a computer ever since. We adapted his written assignments to allow for the use of technology and since then his grades and anxiety has improved greatly. ]]> 2019-02-17 22:16:32 UTC https://padlet.com/bwilliamson9/sttwrcba7jit/wish/332174787 lovescookie00 https://padlet.com/bwilliamson9/sttwrcba7jit/wish/332192008 I worked directly with her from 6th thru 8th grade. I accompanied MT to Six Grade Camp and the Dominican Republic as her Nanny. Mt is an amazing young lady who graduated from High School. 

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