I have learned a tremendous amount during Reaching and Engaging All Learners Through Technology. This class served to reinforce my ideas about how math instruction should look in my classroom. I say math because that is our big focus this year. Our math scores are not as high as our reading scores and we want to bring them up. As I have searched for resources and chatted with my social network partner, I have collected many resources to use when differentiating instruction this year. At first the thought of Universal Design for Learning scared me. However, upon learning more and reading all the great resources on the CAST website, I am now more comfortable with the idea. I plan to use the great resources offered by Pearson for reading. I also plan on using the wonderful interactive math web sites I found to have students practice in a fun way. In addition, I will continue to use resources such as Spelling City and others I have used in the past to provide students with alternatives to paper and pencil assignments.
One immediate adjustment I will make is administering pre-assessments for all math topics we cover. I want my students who have already mastered the standard to move on to application problems and projects rather than the continuous practice needed for mastery. I am also looking at adjusting how I assess in science and social studies. I want to include project and performance based assessments in each of these subjects.
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