julie

I teach 6th,7th,and 8th grade students in West Chester. I think of this as my 4th career. I began as an elementary and middle school teacher in England. After coming to the U.S., I became a reading specialist. I took a twenty-year break from teaching to be a marriage and family therapist. When I returned to teaching my goal was to resume my work as a reading specialist. However, I was asked to interview for a job as an ELL teacher, and decided that this would be an interesting oportunity. This is a rewarding job, but I have never worked harder!

__5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1 __ __5 new technologies to try __ · Google docs · CAST UDL Curriculum Self-check · Udtechtoolkit – Natural Reader – text to speech · Udtechtoolkit – Spelling City.com · readwritethink.org

__4 ideas to share with others __ 1. The UDL concept and principles 2. Udtechtoolkit 3. The importance of the Affective Networks 4. Teaching students about affective top-down processing, and strategies for counteracting negative emotions that will impede their learning

__3 principles of Universal Design for Learning __ 1. To support recognition learning, provide multiple, flexible methods of presentation. 2. To support strategic learning, provide multiple, flexible methods of expression and apprenticeship. **3. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">To support affective learning, provide multiple, flexible options for engagement.

__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">2 changes in your teaching to reach all learners in the Digital Age __ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">1. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Use technologies to enhance student engagement and motivation in the writing process. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">2. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Give more attention to the role of the affective networks; no matter how much technology is used, failure to address the emotional component of learning will limit students’ success.

__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">1 BIG idea to implement “on Monday” __ **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Spelling City.com **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">. This technology will allow me to implement a personal spelling program, in which students create a weekly spelling list based on the errors they have made in their writing. I started one last year, but haven’t done it this year. Spelling City.com provides excellent and varied activities for practice that will engage and instruct my students, and allow me to manage the program with no additional planning.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Sunday, 11/21 5,4,3,2,1

__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">5 new technologies to try __ · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Udtechtoolkit – Spelling City.com · <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[] · <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[|http://simple.wikipedia.org] · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">CAST UDL Curriculum Self-check · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Google docs

__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">4 ideas to share with others __ · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">National Center on Universal Design for Learning · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">http://wordgeneration.org/ - schoolwide academic language program · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">simple Wikipedia · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Google docs

__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">3 principles of Universal Design for Learning __ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">1. To support recognition learning, provide multiple, flexible methods of presentation/representation. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">2. To support strategic learning, provide multiple, flexible methods of expression and apprenticeship. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">3. **To support affective learning, provide multiple, flexible options for engagement.

__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">2 changes in your teaching to reach all learners in the Digital Age __ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">1. Use technologies to enhance student engagement and motivation in the writing process. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">2. Give more attention to the role of the affective networks; no matter how much technology is used, failure to address the emotional component of learning will limit students’ success

__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">1 BIG idea to implement “on Monday” __ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-weight: normal;">Spelling City.com – see above **

__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Using Flexible Technology: Ideas for My Classroom __ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">1. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Spelling City **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">: to implement the personal spelling program <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">2. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Writing Fun **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">: use the graphic organizer and supports for persuasive writing. Show on Promethian board and complete a prompt as a class group. Students then use the technology on their own laptops to complete a prompt individually. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">3. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Microsoft Word Features **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">: use “adding comments” and “selected errors in grammar checker” to assist students with the writing process <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">4. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Talking Text **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">: investigate available software and how students may use it when writing and reading

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">12/04/10: __5, 4, 3, 2, 1__ ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">__5 new technologies to try__: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[]

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[] (  [|www.literacycenter.net/lessonview]  [|www.freeaudiobooks.com]  []

__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">4 ideas to share with others __ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">1. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">YouTube Video: “Pay Attention” <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">2. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Tic-Tac-Toe to manage differentiated instruction <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">3. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[|www.zotero.org] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">4. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Google earth lessons []

__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">3 principles of Universal Design for Learning __ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">1. To support recognition learning, provide multiple, flexible methods of presentation. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">2. To support strategic learning, provide multiple, flexible methods of expression and apprenticeship.

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">3. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">To support affective learning, provide multiple, flexible options for engagement

__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">2 changes in your teaching to reach all learners in the Digital Age __ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">1. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Use more digital technologies in presentation methods to enhance student engagement and motivation <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">2. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Use more interactive, collaborative technologies, such as Google docs __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">. __

__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">1 BIG idea to implement “on Monday” __ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Use Google docs to coordinate feedback from core subject teachers re a student’s classroom performance, and include the parents.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> ** Personal Spelling Program **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Culminating Activity #2 **

__ Objective: __ To create and implement an individualized spelling program in which students learn to spell words they have spelled incorrectly in their writing. An integral goal is to incorporate engaging activities for practice.

__ Technology ____ : __ __[]__ __ Materials: __ Personal Spelling list Index cards laptops and headphones __Method:__ Students will have some time in class on two or three days (to be determined) to use spellingcity.com. Those with computer and internet access at home may continue activities at home; those without, may come during homeroom to use the class laptops. Students will follow these directions. (As they cannot save lists, they will need to recreate them each day.) Day 1 (usually Monday) 1. Select 5 words from your personal spelling list, and copy them onto an index card. Add the date. Show me your card. 2. Go to __[]__ (bookmarked) and enter your words in the spelling city list. 3. Do the // __Teach Me__ //activity. 4. Play 1 game: choose from // Unscramble, HangMouse, //or // Missing Letter // Day 2

1. Go to __[]__ and enter your words in the spelling city list. 2. Play 1 game: choose from // MatchIt, Crossword, //or// WhichWord // Day 3 1. Go to __[]__ and enter your words in the spelling city list. 2. Go to // __Test Me__ // and check how well you can spell your words. 3. Play 1 game: choose from// HangMouse, //or // Unscramble // __ Assessment: __ At the end of the week, students work with a partner to test each other on their personal spelling lists.