In your Signature Assignment for Week 8, you will be developing three complete lesson plans appropriate for teaching a classroom of diverse students. Those plans will include modifications or accommodations for a student with special needs (such as a student with a specific learning disability, emotional impairment, or physical disability; differentiated instruction for English Language Learners; adaptations for a student from a diverse cultural or religious background).
In preparation, you will begin by writing the goals and objectives for each lesson and determine how you will assess student learning. Once completed, you will use this week’s assignment to help complete the lesson plans for Week 8.
For each of the three lessons plans for Week 8, you will:
Write objectives based on Bloom’s Taxonomy and appropriate for the stated subject/grade level.
Develop authentic assessments that will measure the objectives.
Suggest adaptations for diverse learners in your classroom.
Create a rubric or scoring tool for each assessment.
Grade: 7
Subject: Social Studies
Sample Assessment
(Current Events in the News)
Goal: Increase understanding of current events
Lesson One Assessment
(Title)
Goal:
Lesson Two Assessment
(Title)
Goal:
Lesson Three Assessment
(Title)
Goal:
Bloom’s Level
Objective
Application
The student will write a newspaper article based on a current event
Description of an authentic assessment
Choose a state in the United States and write a short newspaper article on an event recently occurring in its capital city.
(350-700 words)
Modifications or accommodations for a student with special needs
For a student with a learning disability in written communication:
Allow extra time or shorten assignment; Assign a peer tutor to help proofread the article and make corrections
Differentiated instruction for an English Language Learners
For an ELL student:
150-300 words, supplemented by visual illustrations or pictures
Adaptations for a student from a diverse cultural or religious background. Choose the country of your heritage and write a short newspaper article on an event recently occurring in its capital city.
Length: Completed chart and one rubric for each assessment (4-5 pages)
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