What Is Inclusive Instructional Practice?
In the second block of this model, called Inclusive Instructional Practice, a step-by-step planning and instructional framework is outlined (Katz, 2012). Physical and instructional environments are designed so that students have access to differentiated learning opportunities in order to address their varied learning modes. Essential understandings within curricula are identified, and inquiry activities that promote higher order thinking are planned. Course materials are differentiated in terms of level of complexity, methods of acquiring knowledge, and strategies for demonstrating understanding. As part of this practice, teachers build rubrics that reflect multiple developmental levels of understanding, and can be used to assess multi-modal expressions of understandings. Regular feedback and assessment is ongoing so that teachers can assess for learning, and when needed, conduct assessment/evaluation of learning, including grading.
Grade 3 Structures Unit
PHRSD, Alberta
Unit Activities
Sample Year/Unit Plan
The Edmodo site below has a sample year and unit plan for Grade 7 in Alberta, Canada, including activity cards for the centres and a chant to be used in a pocket chart for reading instruction. It also has units developed by teachers in Manitoba. Click on the"Edmodo group" button below to see them. For more info on year and unit planning - see Chapters 4 & 5 in "Teaching to Diversity: The Three Block Model of Universal Design for Learning."
Note: Units for each grade (one per grade from 1-12) are now available related to Manitoba curriculum on the website of Portage & Main publishing!
Note: Units for each grade (one per grade from 1-12) are now available related to Manitoba curriculum on the website of Portage & Main publishing!
Share your units!
Please share your units!
Please give your unit a title, and grade level it is intended for.
NOTE: You are responsible for not breaching copyright - this means no google images, no units that aren't your own, and so on!
To join the group, click the button below, and enter the code q38rxe
I have started us off with several units - have a look!
Please give your unit a title, and grade level it is intended for.
NOTE: You are responsible for not breaching copyright - this means no google images, no units that aren't your own, and so on!
To join the group, click the button below, and enter the code q38rxe
I have started us off with several units - have a look!
Student Voice
"I felt that I was having fun doing lots of the projects and different activities, and I also got, I felt like I could finally show people that I learn this way and not this way.
Because last year it was all just writing, writing, writing. That’s not how I learn, and now I understand why.
It made me proud."
J, Grade 6
Because last year it was all just writing, writing, writing. That’s not how I learn, and now I understand why.
It made me proud."
J, Grade 6
Teacher Voice
"I have implemented the three block model in my geography class. It has been a challenge to prepare centers but the payoff has been amazing. I have students who are experiencing real academic success for the first time in their school career and others who are feeling challenged for the first time. I look forward to implementing it in my other classes next semester."
- Jude Gosselin, Grade 10 Geography Teacher, Centre Scolaire Leo Remillard
"I completely believe in teaching this way. It takes a tough class to really realize the positive effect it has on all students and adults in the classroom." - Ms. R., High School Science Teacher
"It was easy for me to mount up the excuses for why things weren’t working. This showed me how to make things work." - Anonymous
- Jude Gosselin, Grade 10 Geography Teacher, Centre Scolaire Leo Remillard
"I completely believe in teaching this way. It takes a tough class to really realize the positive effect it has on all students and adults in the classroom." - Ms. R., High School Science Teacher
"It was easy for me to mount up the excuses for why things weren’t working. This showed me how to make things work." - Anonymous
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