Assessment and Alignment of Curriculum Session 3 Assigned reading chapter 5 and 6

Review of websites Tell us about the websites on pp

Case study _cluster_2/28/7201/ cw/index.htm l _cluster_2/28/7201/ cw/index.htm l Go to this website- three cases Read the case assigned to your team and answer the questions

RTI Model What are the advantages and disadvantages of the RTI model? Have you used it in your classroom? If your county has adopted RTI, how do you sell it to your teachers?

Assessment What assessments are available to special education teachers? How can you help teachers realize there are numerous assessments?

Look at website Center for Innovation in Education november-2005/heldin.htmlhttp:// november-2005/heldin.html Evaluate this as a site to help teachers.

PBS ath/assessment0500.shtmhttp://pbs.org/teachersource/whats_new/m ath/assessment0500.shtm What is your opinion of using interviews as an assessment tool?

William Butler Yeats “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” Who was he? Why was he interested in education?

CAST Universal Design for Learning Suggests using universal design concepts to address various exceptionalities

Lesson Modification Project Survey the following websites. Part of next week’s evaluation will be the Lesson Modification Project. You can get a head start by choosing a lesson plan from among these websites that you would like to use as the basis for your modification project. A brief overview of the lesson plan options will help get you thinking.

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