Special Education
Assignment 3: The Classroom Instructional Plan
Your classroom instructional plan will delineate your plan for instructing struggling students and students with disabilities to understand new educational material and, thus, achieve learning objectives whether you are working in a classroom or another setting. Your plan is not to exceed 8 pages and must include:
- Explanation of research-based instructional strategies other than graphic organizers – 1-2 pages
- Attach three different graphic organizers – 1 page each, using the template provided.
- Explanation of each chosen graphic organizer and how it assists students with disabilities – 1-2 paragraphs each. Template provided.
- References –Template provided
- Instructional Strategies
- Explore the 20 instructional strategies on list with web links, provided (see attached)
- Pick 3 strategies other than graphic organizers which you can use to help struggling students and students with disabilities to understand new educational material and, thus, achieve learning objectives
- List and explain one strategy at a time:
- Name of strategy
- Explain the strategy IN YOUR OWN WORDS – DO NOT QUOTE
- Explain how you will use in your class/group
- Research and select 3 Graphic Organizers:
- Graphic organizers are visual or graphic displays that provide students a visual way to organize and understand information about a topic. Completed organizers show relationships between facts, information or ideas (e.g., sequence of events, comparison of features, sides of argument, elements of a concept, steps of a procedure, cause and effect). Also called: knowledge, concept or story maps, cognitive or advance organizers, concept diagrams.
- Explore and then choose 3 graphic organizers you can use in your classroom or group setting
- Anyone: http://www.studenthandouts.com/graphicorganizers.htm
- Anyone: http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/
- English: http://www.dailyteachingtools.com/free-graphic-organizers.html
- English/History: http://www.readingquest.org/strat/
- Math: http://www.dgelman.com/graphicorganizers/#RATNUM
- Explain Value of Graphic Organizers Chosen
- For each graphic organizer explain why each one was chosen and its relative value for helping students with disabilities.
- References – APA Style (1 point)
Author’s last name, first initial. (Year). Title italicized. Name of Website. Retrieved from: web address.
For example,
Wright, J. (n.d.). Choice: Allowing the Student to Select Task Sequence. Intervention Central. Retrieved from: http://www.interventioncentral.org/behavioral-interventions/motivation/choice-allowing-student-select-task-sequence
