Adapting Unstoppable Learning: how to differentiate instruction to improve student success at all learning levels

by Yazmin Pineda Zapata, Rebecca Brooks

Overview

Foreword by Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey

Modify your curriculum using streamlined assignments, targeted assessments, and student engagement strategies for different learning styles.

This practical guide expands upon the Unstoppable Learning model to explore accessible learning for all students. Through specific curriculum and environmental accommodations and modifications, as well as personal and technology supports, K–12 teachers will discover how to provide differentiated instruction to students with varying needs, from physical disabilities to twice-exceptionality. Forms, tools, and diagrams designed to aid instructional planning are also included.

How will this book help you?

• Learn how to adjust curriculum in ways that maintain appropriate levels of rigor for different learning styles.
• Consider real school vignettes and examples that illustrate successful Unstoppable Learning adaptations for inclusive classrooms.
• Study the four guiding principles of systems thinking: relationships, communications, responsiveness, and sustainability.
• Consider the importance of collaboration and communication in learning adaptations.

• Study helpful and informative tools and diagrams intended to aid in planning instruction for different learning styles.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781943874224
Publisher:	Solution Tree Press
Publication date:	05/30/2017
Series:	Every Student Can Learn Mathematics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	96
Sales rank:	548,990
File size:	2 MB

Table of Contents

About the Editors vii

About the Authors ix

Foreword Douglas Fisher Nancy Frey xi

Introduction 1

About Adapting Learning 1

About This Book's Underpinnings 2

About This Book's Student Beneficiaries 7

About This Book's Readers 7

About Using This Book as a Resource 8

1 Creating an Adaptation-Friendly Systems Thinking Classroom 11

Systems Thinking 11

Triangle of Support 15

Universal Design for Learning 15

The Takeaways 23

2 Making Accommodations and Modifications While Ensuring Rigor 31

Accommodations 33

Modifications 46

Adaptations as Accommodations or Modifications 47

Rigor 49

The Takeaways 51

3 Determining Personal Supports 53

Full-Time Support 53

Part-Time Support 54

Intermittent Support 54

Peer Tutor Support 54

Natural Support 56

Supplemental Support 56

Co-Teaching 57

The Takeaways 58

4 Communicating With Key Collaborators 59

Naming Key Collaborators 60

Sharing Responsibility 63

The Takeaways 67

Epilogue: Changing a Belief System 69

References and Resources 71

Index 75