Orderly-Restrictive Learning Environments Fairmont Academy
The work is tailored to follow the following instruction:
Sousa, D. A. & Tomlinson, C. A. (2011). Differentiation and the brain: How neuroscience supports the learner-friendly classroom. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
1st task ( One page, one reference)
Orderly-flexible learning environments are most likely to support differentiated instruction. Choose one of the following three kinds of classroom environments:
-Dysfunctional learning environments
-Adequate learning environments
-Orderly-restrictive learning environments
Create a case study scenario that describes the environment. Next, describe the skills the teacher will need to learn to change to an orderly-flexible learning environment. Lastly, reflect on the skills you will need to develop in order to maintain an orderly-flexible learning environment.
2nd task ( One page, one references)
what assumptions about differentiated instruction do you know that have been confirmed? Have others been challenged? Which? What steps will you take to modify your teaching strategies now or in the future? What specific goals will you set for becoming a more academically responsive teacher? What do you believe is the best piece of advice you can give yourself and others when it comes to differentiated instruction?
3rd task ( 5 pages - five references)
Professional Development Plan:
Design your own Professional Development Plan. You will need to create a step-by-step timeline that shows your commitment to personal and professional growth in creating academically and culturally diverse classrooms.
Instructions for paper:
It includes at least 2 goals from each of the following areas:
1: Mindset, learning environment and differentiation
2: Curriculum and differentiation
3: Assessment and differentiation
4: Student readiness and differentiation
5: Student interest and differentiation
6: Student learning profile and differentiation
7: Managing a differentiated classroom
Make sure to include the timetable for meeting the goals and a thorough explanation of how the goals will be met. Address any obstacles that may keep you from reaching your goals and what you will do to overcome them.
Steinbeck vs. Hawthorne John Steinbeck\'s
John Steinbeck's Cannery Row and Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter show very similar views on the complexity of humanity but very different views on humanity in view of divinity. Steinbeck, a 20th-Century agnostic Californian who traveled freely and worked in several areas of California in several different occupations, was not at all concerned with institutional religious views of sin, guilt, alienation and redemption. However, Hawthorne was a 19th Century Puritan and recluse who infused his writing with Puritan views of sin, guilt, alienation and redemption. Though both authors are highly skilled and both believe in humanity's complexity, Steinbeck's book is a light, satirical examination of humanity while Hawthorne's book is a heavy and dark examination of humanity's depths.