Friday, March 15, 2013

UDL Lesson Plan Reflection

I must admit this week's assignment was very time-consuming and vague. I felt I was on a week-long maze. The UDL template was very easy to use and it kept me on task. It help me to keep up with the three different principles of Network which consist of Recognition (The What), Strategic (The How) and Affective (The Why). It is imperative that the lesson incorporates the goals, the methods, the materials and assessment. Questions that one should ask oneself in regards to lesson planning in the UDL plan are the following:

  1. What is my goal?
  2. What are the barriers?
  3. Did I incorporate the UDL Principles?
Students need to be able to use representation, action and expression and last but, not least Engagement in order to eliminate student barriers.So these principle need to be embedded in the lesson. 
  • Citation: Cast.org (2009). Model UDL lessons. Center for Applied Special Technology. Retrieved from http://udlselfcheck.cast.org/
Below is my UDL Lesson over Bullying


We’re all in this together...S.T.A.N.D
(Stand tall against negative domineer)

Lesson Overview
Title: We’re all in this together...S.T.A.N.D (Stand tall against negative domineer)

Author: Devin Singleton

Subject: Bullying Awareness with integration of content areas

Grade Level(s): Grades 6-8

Duration: 1 week

Sub-Subject Area(s): Math, Reading, Language Arts and Technology
                                                                                           
Unit Description: This lesson is part of a bigger unit that focuses on Bullying. Bullying has played such an important but, negative role of many students’ lives that it has taken a life on its own. This topic has been on the news in recent years so much, that the school systems as well as political arena has made efforts to make a stand against bullying and to try to provide some protective measures against bullying by providing awareness and enforcing laws within the state’s education codes. Students will have the opportunity to participate in several activities to support their learning as well as share their learning about the effects of bullying, how to become a S.T.A.N.D student, all the while incorporating real-world learning through state standards for Math, Reading, Language Arts and Technology.

Lesson Description for Day: In this lesson, students will identify the types of bullying and find where these occurrences take place through reading articles and/or book excerpts about bullying, viewing video clips and self-reflection on own personal experiences of bullying of themselves or close friends. Students will then apply that information by creating a survey that their fellow peers can take. Students will then disaggregate the data to identify what is going on within their school in regards to bullying. Students will use this disaggregated data to determine what the cause of the bullying is and how the students can effectively make changes to reduce the occurrences of bullying or stop it altogether. Students will recommend a plan to bring awareness to bullying which will include a school-wide pledge S.T.A.N.D against Bullying using the acronym as well as a school-wide public service announcement through some sort of media platform of their choosing.




State Standards:
Texas State Standards for 6th Grade-8th Grade (Math)

6.10.D   Solve problems by collecting, organizing, displaying, and interpreting data
7.11.B   Make inferences and convincing arguments based on an analysis of given or collected data
8.13.A   Evaluate methods of sampling to determine validity of an inference made from a set of data

Texas State Standards for 6th Grade (Reading)


(12)  Reading/Comprehension of Informational Text/Procedural Texts. Students understand how to glean and use information in procedural texts and documents. Students are expected to:
(A)  Follow multi-tasked instructions to complete a task, solve a problem, or perform procedures; and
(B)  Interpret factual, quantitative, or technical information presented in maps, charts, illustrations, graphs, timelines, tables, and diagrams.


(13)  Reading/Media Literacy. Students use comprehension skills to analyze how words, images, graphics, and sounds work together in various forms to impact meaning. Students will continue to apply earlier standards with greater depth in increasingly more complex texts.
Students are expected to:
(A)  explain messages conveyed in various forms of media;
(B)  recognize how various techniques influence viewers' emotions;
(C)  critique persuasive techniques (e.g., testimonials, bandwagon appeal) used in media messages; and
(D)  analyze various digital media venues for levels of formality and informality.

ISTE Standards for (Technology)
Creativity and Innovation
a. Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas,
products, or processes
b. Create original works as a means of personal
or group expression
Communication and Collaboration
a. Interact, collaborate, and publish with peers,
experts, or others employing a variety of digital
environments and media
c. Develop cultural understanding and global
awareness by engaging with learners of
other cultures
Research and Information Fluency
b. Locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize,
and ethically use information from a variety of
sources and media
c. Evaluate and select information sources and digital
tools based on the appropriateness to specific tasks
Technology Operations and Concepts
Understand and use technology systems
b. Select and use applications effectively
and productively
c. Troubleshoot systems and applications
d. Transfer current knowledge to learning
of new technologies
Digital Citizenship
Advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible
use of information and technology
b. Exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology
that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity
c. Demonstrate personal responsibility for
lifelong learning
d. Exhibit leadership for digital citizenship


Goals
Unit Goals:
1. Students will identify the signs of bullying.
2. Students will classify the types of bullying into 4 groups.
3. Students will identify the types of sampling.
4. Students will use appropriate graphical display to represent data.
5. Students will create a proposal for prohibit bullying in school using data collected from the survey.
6. Students will effectively use the appropriate technological tools to create a final product.

Lesson Goals:
1. Students will identify the signs of bullying in individuals. (Recognition Network)
2. Students will classify the types of bullying into four groups based upon the characteristics that they see, or read through given scenarios. (Strategic Network)
3. Students will identify the types of sampling and pick the type of sampling that most appropriate for their data collection. (Recognition and Strategic Network)
4. Students will pick the most appropriate graphical display to represent the data that they collected. (Strategic Network)
5. Students will research proposals to help model the proposal that they will create based upon the data collected from the surveys. (Affective Network)

Methods
Anticipatory Set:
Give each student a piece of notebook paper and instruct them to crumple it up, stomp on it and really mess up the paper but, ensuring not to tear the paper. Then instruct the students to stop and unfold the paper, smooth it out and look at how scarred and mess up the paper is. Then instruct the students to tell the paper that it’s sorry. Despite saying sorry and trying to fix the paper, point out to the students that the paper still has scars left behind and that those scars will never go away no matter how hard you try to fix it. Explain to a student that’s what happens when a child bully’s another child, they may say sorry but the scars are there forever. Next instruct the kids to write down how they felt in regards to the exercise and what the overall meaning is in regards to this exercise and what he/she learned from this exercise.
 (Affective Network)

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Introduce and Model New Knowledge:
Introduce bullying by watching a video clip to introduce the different forms of bullying (Recognition Network).  We will discuss the different forms and create a chart with it characteristics (Strategic Network). We will also read several stories from students who were bullied and identify those signs that show that students are being bullied. Talk about the new vocabulary words in regards to bullying as well as sampling. Students will get a short lesson over the types of bullying. Students will be put into a group where they will be given different scenarios and the students have to identify what form of bullying it belongs to and place that scenario on the big board under its appropriate spot. Once all scenarios are placed on the board then the class will have a class discussion on the results (Affective Network).
Provide Guided Practice:
Students will work together as a group to read an article on bullying and the hot spots. Students will also read other articles about the causes of bullying and after reading these articles formulate questions (3-4) so, they can create a survey online using Google doc. Students will view a how-to video on the steps of formulating questions to create an online survey. Students will then complete a sampling worksheet as group to identify the types of sampling and when those types of sampling are biased and unbiased. Students then will use their knowledge of sampling to determine when it’s the best way to collect data. Once that dialogue is done students will then get the ipads and start collecting data by getting the students throughout the school to take the survey on Google doc. Students will then work as a group to decipher the data from Google doc (Strategic Network).
 Provide Independent Practice:
Once the students have the required data, students will take a question as well as the data collected for that question and create a graphical display for that information collected using create a graph software. Students will create a slide on the group’s Google presentation with the
their graphical representation. Students will also find a video to embed in their Google presentation slide. The student will also give a short description on one of the types of sampling with examples. Students are working by themselves but, are still collectively creating a final group product which is the Google presentation. The independent practice will consist of identifying a type of bullying, graphical display of the chosen survey question, identifying a type of sampling and explaining as well as video clip about bullying on the group’s Google presentation (Affective Network). Students will then create an eBook about a story of bullying incorporating what they have learned.

Assessment
Formative/Ongoing Assessment:
Teacher encourages class and group discussion on each transition of the lesson to make sure students are on task and understand what should be accomplished and to answer any questions that a student or a group may have.

Summative/End Of Lesson Assessment:
At the end of the lesson, the group of students will have uploaded a link to their Google presentation on-line to the class blog. Each individual student will have posted up an end of the lesson reflection on what they learned and explain the purpose of this lesson. The project will be evaluated on the following items:
1      Did the student effectively identify the types and causes of bullying?
2      Did the students pick the correct type of sampling and was able to explain why he/she chose that type of sample?
3      Did the students effectively use the technological tools provided as was able to come up with an on-line teaching tool about bullying while incorporating math?
4      Was the student able to communicate effectively their learning on the class blog?
5      Did the student create an eBook that creatively showed all of what they learned through this bullying lesson?



Materials
     Articles over Bullying which will be found in live binder
     Projector
     Computer
     Board
     Scenarios cut up to give to groups
     Ipads
     Student Volunteers
     Google Presentation

 Websites:
     create a graph
     Book Builder
     Google
     Live binder







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