Talk:Diversity-Neutral Learning Environments

Unit 1: Peer Evaluation- Kendyl Smeatin -- Kendyl Smeatin (talk) 14:19, 24 April 2013 (EDT)

Hi Gia! After going through your first Unit, here is a list of things I ENJOYED...

- I enjoyed how you included media, it engages the learner

- The article is also another great source that will also engage the learner

- I like your idea of having the learner reflect at the end of the unit about a personal experience

Here are some suggestions you may want to consider...

- You may want to include your objectives for the unit... it would help the reader understand what they are going to learn

- You may want to think about making your title of the unit more specific, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to "Understand"

- You may want to include guiding questions for the learner to think about before looking at the video and the article so it focuses what they are supposed to be looking for

- Be sure to write down questions for thinking under that subtitle!

- Visuals may make your unit more appealing to the reader

- I'm not sure if I know what the Chapter 6 thing is that is listed at the beginning of the unit... is that something that I am supposed to read? If so you may want to include a link!

- Do you have ideas for how you will assess your students?

These are just suggestions :) Thanks!

Kendyl Smeatin

Re: Unit 1: Peer Evaluation- Kendyl Smeatin -- Gia Campanella Schneider (talk) 21:04, 24 April 2013 (EDT)

Kendyl!

Thank you so much for your feedback. I have done a few of the things you suggested (I am still harnessing exactly what I am doing...)

I will work on my sub-objectives next and then coming up with strong lead-in and thinking questions for all of my resources.

As per assessment: since this is for educators, I see this as a "take what you can" sort of course. Assessment hasn't been my priority...Does that make sense to you?

I posted the basics for my next three units - what do you think about where I'm heading?

Thanks so much!! Gia

Heather Kurto Peer Evaluation

Hi Gia.

I agree with Kendyl. The video of the inclusive school was great. I was wondering what new information you wanted me to learn? As Kendyl suggested, it would be great to have a section at the beginning of the course to state what you want the learner to know by the end of the course. In addition you may want to thread checkpoints on the objectives with each new section of the unit. An example for this may be that a main objective is: After going through unit 1 you will be able to identify 3 inclusive practices for students with disabilities. When we watch the video you may ask, "When viewing this video, look for 3 ways the teachers modified the environment for the student."

I like the resources that you used, but perhaps you could provide a summary or outline for the learner. This is just a suggestion. Kendyl had made that suggestion on my power point, and I could see that I did have some very wordy slides that may turn off the learner.

I think it is a good start. Heather

Re: Heather Kurto Peer Evaluation -- Gia Campanella Schneider (talk) 21:21, 27 April 2013 (EDT)

Thanks so much for the feedback, Heather! I will work on incorporating your ideas into my course. :)

Gia

Instructor feedback on your draft unit -- Jianwei Zhang (talk) 07:16, 2 May 2013 (EDT)

Gia, your draft units look solid and well structured. I like how you use different media and activities to support learning. To further refine:

1) you may add an opening paragraph in the course intro part to highlight who are the target learner, what this course is about, etc.

2) In your units, for each long reading, you may provide a summary to highlight the key points as study guide.