Assessment and FeedbackCourseworkInclusive Education StrategiesInterdisciplinary TeachingITL528 Single Subject Integrated Design IINational University
Reflecting on the Learning Map
The theme for Week Four is The Cycle of Inquiry: Teaching and Reflecting. To this point, we have spent a great deal of time developing our week-long plan to be inclusive, accessible, engaging, challenging, and effective. This course’s key focus is the intentional design of our instruction and assessments. The other key focus is the reflection of the appropriateness and efficacy of that design. While we are not being asked to teach the whole plan, we are being asked to teach and reflect on a lesson from that plan (see the Signature Assignment). For this assignment, we will similarly reflect on...
CourseworkInterdisciplinary TeachingITL528 Single Subject Integrated Design IINational UniversityStandards-Based InstructionUniversal Design for Learning (UDL)
Interdisciplinary Instruction
Because students are frequently divided into subject-related classes at the secondary level (e.g., math, science, physical education, music, art, social studies, etc.), it’s easy for them to see subjects as silos of content rather than interconnected and overlapping. It’s our job as educators to facilitate opportunities for students to see the overlap and connection and to help them experience and understand the interconnectedness through our instructional strategies, differentiated learning, and assessment practices. TPE 4.3 prompts teachers to “[d]esign and implement instruction and assessment that reflects the interconnectedness of academic content areas and related student skills development in literacy, mathematics, science,...