I will be working diligently on our next set of curriculum lessons knowing students can tap the lesson, never miss the lesson if they are absent. This will apply to both ECC students and peer tutors ... Stay tuned for the next generation of instructional designs for the ECC!
Because we now have access to a lending library, I am creating curriculum that will let students be even more independent. Rather than have the instructions read to them, the students may put on headsets, tap the Showme lesson and complete the activities. We tried our first one, and everyone listened, moved along, and completed the sheet 5/5 correct! I will be working diligently on our next set of curriculum lessons knowing students can tap the lesson, never miss the lesson if they are absent. This will apply to both ECC students and peer tutors ... Stay tuned for the next generation of instructional designs for the ECC!
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Here we are the brave pioneers who completed the very first cohort for endorsements in Instructional System Design and Educational Technology. Each of us put in 238 hours of onsite class time over a full year. I would like to thank the Educational Technology faculty who made it possible. Thank you to Jared Ward, who supports my many many requests and needs for bringing technology into my program and keeping it running. When I first began working with the extended core program, which was called a cluster, I found the students had goals with regard to compliance, looking at person speaking, sitting up, and handwriting. When I looked at the students, I saw weak and uncoordinated students. They could not follow a direction that has right/left or before/after, if/then, or when/do. In addition , they lay on the table, their posture was mostly curved back and slumped shoulders. Yawning was an ever constant event beginning about 10:00. Dining etiquette was not pretty. Utensils held like shovels and moth down to food as opposed to hand come up the mouth. Did they do this on purpose? Obviously not! So why did I expect those goals on the IEP to be met if they didn't have or had lost the underlying foundation to meeting the goals. If you can't hold you head up, you are not going to look up. If you can't hold your head up, you are not going to follow your speaker with your eyes. If your back muscles and stomach muscles are weak, you are not going to sit up and have the posture for good handwriting. But most of all, when you ask these students to work, they simply don't have the stamina nor endurance. So what is the poor teacher to do? Continue to demand from slumped over kids. Kids who are anxious. Kids who are whining. Kids who are yawning. Or you can get up and move it, move it. Then at 11:30 when you work on writing you get .... legible signatures, focus, and progress! I was sent this from one of my former peer tutors and 10 former peer tutors liked it and sent it on. Just thought I would share too! Bravo! I hope they flash mob somewhere when I am out and about!
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