Talk:Colleen B.'s portfolio page
Understanding the learners/teachers' needs -- Jianwei Zhang 14:52, 4 March 2009 (EST)
Hi Colleen, you're working on a very interesting topic. A good focus.
My prediction/intuition of the teachers' need related to this topic will be broader than data analysis, and include:
- what is DI, and why?
- what data need to be collected, in what form?
- HOW TO ANALYZE
- What can a teacher do with the results?
Some of these issues are addressed in [[1]] I'm sure that you have collected a lot references already.
Re: Understanding the learners/teachers' needs -- Colleen Bryla 10:03, 8 March 2009 (EDT)
Thank you for your feedback. I was unsure how broad to go because that was a concern when I first chose the topic of differentiated instruction. I understand now though that I can give a better background of DI while still focusing on the data analysis portion that leads up to it in the classroom. Thank you for the reference also!
Peer Review Ashley Keegan (4/27/09) -- Ashley Keegan 15:20, 27 April 2009 (EDT)
Colleen,
It looks like you have a really interesting topic and great start to your project.
I thought your portfolio page was great. It was well organized, clear and concise. The only thing which was missing according to the rubric was a design rationale for the methods and sequencing you used.
I thought the links, pictures and nagivation of your pages were very easy to use. You have links back to both the start of your project and the main page which makes it really easy to get around your site.
I thought your objectives were good and in the lessons you have already completed your activities correspond with the target objectives. In Unit 1 you have an objective stating learners will be able to identify steps involved in planning and executing Differenciated instruction in a classroom. Later in the activities you have the learners write how do you envision a differenciated instructional environment. Is this the activity which you wanted to provide the learning objective? You might want to have the learners explain how to then achieve what they have envisioned. What do you think?
Will you be planning to have your learners actually put together a chart to analyze the data they might collect? This way they have a hands on opportunity to create a table, chart, etc. to display data. Also, this will help add different activities to your lesson.
I think you have a great topic and very useful project.
Hope this was helpful.
Ashley
Feedback on your course -- Jianwei Zhang 22:30, 30 April 2009 (EDT)
Nice progress! This will be a solid and well-designed course!
(a) I'm imagining that it might be helpful to integrate an authentic problem/case and use it to thread up all the units. For example, in unit 1 when you mention test data (or somewhere else), you can provide data/story of a specific classroom, and the participants will then analyze, interpret, and act on this specific case through the following units.
(b) You use articles as reading assignments in each unit. You may want to briefly summarize each reading, as advance organizer.