Review of http://www.cast.org/teachingeverystudent/tools/curriculumbarrierstutorial.cfm - Help to stop creating barriers for students!
As discussed in the last post, we talked about how to plan
for all learners. Once we get started in planning, educators usually come
across potential barriers that are inherent in your planned curriculum
materials and methods. In the Curriculum barriers tutorial, on the cast site, it takes you step by step to planning for
a child with specific strengths, weaknesses, and needs. The tutorial helps
point out missed opportunities between materials, methods, and students strengths
and interests. The tutorial is short and very easy to navigate. This is another
great “tool” to add to your teacher bag of tricks. The tutorial gets you
thinking about your students and materials and manipulatives that may be useful
to them and the tools you may be using that are creating “barriers” for them. A barriersI have made are wait time for my students to answer and really think.
To practice, this the site also provides a template to use.
It’s available in word or pdf format. I’ve downloaded it for my personal use,
as you should too! It will help me plan and avoid barriers and unhelpful methods
I currently may be using. I’m sure my smiling bunch of 26 will benefit from
this wonderful template.
Happy Planning!
~ Michelle
Have you tired the tutorial or template? What barriers were you
currently creating for your struggling students?
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