Got to about page 3 and had to take a detour.
Thoughts were crowding my brain
Jumping in as fast as I could think them
on what I could do with my next unit to differentiate instruction
And I had to get them down on.
We're going to be learning how to solve for x
In one, two, or multi-step equations.
I already had planned a pre-test to find out student understanding
In hopes of being able to get through the material a little faster.
Then I WAS going to teach how to solve one-step equations to the WHOLE class.
Then two-step to the WHOLE class.
Then multi-step to the WHOLE class.
You get the picture.
I was going to go through this unit the same way I always had.
I wasn't moving.
The lesson was getting stale.
But, then Chapter 5 barges in
And challenges me shake things up.
Instead of focusing on WHOLE class instruction
Focus on the various learning styles: visual, auditory, kinesthetic.
Instead of teaching the concept using the multi-learning styles to ALL students
Have various activities matched up to where students are in the learning process.
Wow!
What an out-of-the-world idea!
But yet at the same time...a no brainer.
Duh!
Here are my thoughts from last night.
And then as I drifted off to sleep,
My wandering brain continued to process how I would communicate this assignment to my students.
I would put it in my livebinder online textbook
in the form of a table
with links to all the sites they would need.
Total technology differentiating instruction for ALL students.
Love it!
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