Printable: Name & Pronoun Onboarding Form
Sometimes our students use different names and pronouns at home, in our classroom, and at school. Welcome a student with this form and make them feel safe about their self-expression.
PD: Designing to Teach — Optimizing Presentation Slides and Handouts for Accessibility
Goal: make better slides and handouts for UDL and readability without distracting from the content
Co-presenters: Raymond Chan, Katelyn Phan, Matt Shih, River Suh
Presented at: Stanford Graduate School of Education STEP Conference 2017
Comments: I would change so many things about this 20-minute workshop, and in fact disagree with several of its points now, but I’d also add more bite-size experiential examples and making clearer take-home handouts. Maybe I’ll create a revision soon!
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Summary sheet for best practices (not accessibility-friendly, ironically)
Picture Sort:
Math/Science:
English:
Grading: Differentiating Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
How do I write comments/cartoons for 35+ students yet record grades on time? My coach and I triaged work (usually CERs) into 3 stacks based on approaching, meeting, and exceeding the NGSS performance expectation.
Here’s a guiding document translating the biology NGSS performance expectations into those 3 categories. I hope to refine it based on feedback.
Disclaimer: Like all shortcuts, these are very roughly useful but inaccurate models that get me where I want to go, which is more time dedicated to individual comments, less time wasted on deciding/entering numbers.
You will probably disagree with me about these categories; feel free to comment w/ feedback.
12 Graphic Organizer Layouts for Science
Introducing one layout at a time helps students master and build a toolset of ways to analyze, summarize, and explain their ideas. Here are 12 of my favorite graphic organizers/strategies as I know them, with sample titles and categories.