Curriculum Design for Inclusive Arts Teaching and Learning (Part 1): Understanding by Design

The Understanding by Design module provides a solid framework for designing quality curriculum that features relevant, worthwhile content and has alignment and coherence across the desired results, assessment evidence, and learning activities. This module will help you understand the UbD framework, analyze curriculum using the framework, and give constructive feedback to educators. In addition, you will explore how to apply UbD in your own professional development programs.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Don Glass

Curriculum Design for Inclusive Arts Teaching and Learning (Part 2): Universal Design for Learning

This module of the course focuses on using the Universal Design for Learning framework to review and revise your curriculum to make it more accessible and inclusive. You will learn about the critical features and concepts of UDL in this module presentation and then you will apply this information to the evaluation and feedback of curriculum documentation. You will also be asked to consider how you would use the UDL framework in your own professional development.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Don Glass

Curriculum Design for Inclusive Arts Teaching and Learning (Part 3): Educative Assessment

This module of the course focuses on educative assessment. Educative assessment is designed to provide educators and learners with feedback to improve their work. In this module you will learn the UbD-DI principles of authentic assessment and understand how UDL integrates with them. You will then use a protocol to generate valid assessment criteria based on a review of student work samples.

Material Type: Assessment, Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Don Glass

Curriculum Design for Inclusive Arts Teaching and Learning (Part 4): Educationally Interpretive Exhibitions and Educative Cases

This module of the course focuses on organizing curricular documentation and student learning evidence into a reflective exhibition or narrative that explains student learning and what inclusive educational practice supported that learning. During the module you will use a scoring rubric to help analyze some sample cases and give constructive feedback to improve the educative value of the cases or exhibitions for other educators.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Don Glass

Debating the Bomb

Students will research how the development of the atomic bomb affected people in World War II, participate in a debate about the bomb's use, and investigate how it has affected people's lives since 1945.

Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Lesson Plan

Depicting Women and Class in a Global Society (Advanced Level)

Students will analyze how a portrait reflects the events and trends of its time and then create a portrait of a public female figure today.

Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Lesson Plan

Documentary Photography: Body Image

Students will analyze a photograph to learn about body image. They will also discuss how society views the human body in different cultures.

Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Lesson Plan

Draw a Math Story: From the Concrete to the Symbolic

Students create math stories by first drawing, then writing, and finally using math symbols to show addition or subtraction.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan

Oral Communication: An English Conversation Board Game

This board game combines practicing conversational English for adult ESL students with using the various purposes for oral communication (informing, entertaining, persuading, and honoring/inspiring). It will also develop foundational reading comprehension skills through game participation and will develop professional communication and interpersonal skills by allowing discussion of different social subjects that students could encounter in daily life, academic, and career situations.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Game, Interactive

Author: Heidi Kirby

Engaging Fathers: Issues and Considerations for Early Childhood Educators

The authors discuss what early childhood programs can do to engage fathers in their children's lives. The article covers the work of fathering programs, differences in maternal and paternal care-giving styles, co-parenting compacts, and fathers participating in literacy and other learning activities with their children at home or in school.

Material Type: Reading

Author: Child Development

Open Textbooks for Rural Arizona Starter Kit

This Open Educational Resources & Practices Starter Kit is designed to support educators and librarians begin their OER journey of identifying, evaluating, curating, and authoring/remixing.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Authors: Megan Simmons, Megan Crossfield

Causes of the American Revolution

This kit provides teachers and other educators with the materials and guidance to help fourth grade students understand the reasons that the British colonists elected to declare their independence from King George III between the years 1763-1776. As a part of these lessons students will be encouraged to consider the intent and impact of media documents from a variety of points of view including those of the colonists, King George, patriots, loyalists, slaves and Native Americans.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Diagram/Illustration, Homework/Assignment, Lesson Plan, Primary Source, Teaching/Learning Strategy, Unit of Study

Authors: Amy Eckley, Andrea Volckmar, Chris Sperry, Karen Griffin, Lynn VanDeWeert, Rachel Coates, Sox Sperry, Whitney Bong

Selected Haiku by Issa

Learn more about the Japanese form of poetry known as haiku. In this video segment from Poetry Everywhere, the poet Robert Hass reads a short collection of amusing, often ironic haiku by Japanese poet Kobayashi Issa.

Material Type: Lecture

100 People: A World Portrait

This website gives you the opportunity see the world through different people all over the world on a variety of topics. Watch videos, see lesson plans about global issues and looking at it from a lense of focus on 100 people.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Diagram/Illustration, Interactive, Lesson, Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy

ACES: Learning Strategies

ACES (Academic, Career & Employability Skills) The goal of ACES is to ensure that Adult Basic Education (ABE) programs are able to provide effective contextualized instruction integrating post-secondary education and training readiness, employability skills, and career readiness at all levels. The Transitions Integration Framework (TIF) is the cornerstone of ACES. It was designed to provide ABE programs and instructors with guidance on the effective integration of transitions skills into instruction at all levels of ABE. The TIF defines the academic, career, and employability skills essential for adult learners to successfully transition to post-secondary education, career training, the workplace, and community involvement. The ACES Resource Library contains tools to help ABE practitioners incorporate the TIF skills into lessons and instructional settings and provides materials that can be used directly with adult learners.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Heather Turngren

ACES: Self Management

ACES (Academic, Career & Employability Skills) The goal of ACES is to ensure that Adult Basic Education (ABE) programs are able to provide effective contextualized instruction integrating post-secondary education and training readiness, employability skills, and career readiness at all levels. The Transitions Integration Framework (TIF) is the cornerstone of ACES. It was designed to provide ABE programs and instructors with guidance on the effective integration of transitions skills into instruction at all levels of ABE. The TIF defines the academic, career, and employability skills essential for adult learners to successfully transition to post-secondary education, career training, the workplace, and community involvement. The ACES Resource Library contains tools to help ABE practitioners incorporate the TIF skills into lessons and instructional settings and provides materials that can be used directly with adult learners.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Heather Turngren

Job Interview Basics-Observe, Discuss, Create

Learners will observe and discuss two similar interview scenarios. Using information from classroom discussion and input from a professional recruiter, learners will create their own unique response to the difficult prompt, Tell me about yourself.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Janet Lee

Good and Bad Job Interviews

This Job Interview unit with three lessons uses video to illustrate both good behaviors and common mistakes in job interviews. The dialogue is designed to be comprehensible to most ELL's, and includes lots of practice. This unit is appropriate for secondary and adult education classes.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Cynthia Mathews

Create a Career Research Project using Google Slides

This exercise is for an advanced writing and/or career ready class. The research to be carried out can be done prior to the commencement of the Slideshow creation process, with the class teacher, or as part of the computer class, in which the Slideshow is created.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment, Lesson Plan

Author: Brian Faloon

Introduction to Google Slides

Students learn how to use Google Slides to make a simple presentation about a career they have researched on www.mynextmove.org. Lesson designed for use in a one-room schoolhouse ABE/GED program, where volunteer tutors and instructors work with students one-to-one.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment, Lesson Plan

Author: Elizabeth Bennett