Professional Learning Course : Culturally Responsive Practices to Improve the Online Teaching and Learning Experiences

Module home primarily starts with introduction and pronunciation of individual names cultivating scopes for interaction and sharing views. Breaker room discussions  generate initial thoughts, prior experiences and storytelling among learners from all walks of life. Each section of the module has relevant scholarly readings along with educational YouTube videos to facilitate the learners. Besides, discussion assignments, interactive sessions, in every module one homogenous group learner get the chance to present intercultural sessions with another homogenous group. For the final project requirement learners will design 5 online modules embedded with CRT online learning to demonstrate their application of knowledge. Finally, assessment questions provided for interactive interview and certification.  

Material Type: Module

Authors: Elicia Bennett, shopto rahman

Universal Design for Learning

Material Type: Module

Author: Leanne Riseley

Assessing Visual Materials for Diversity & Inclusivity

This resource is a modification of the Washington Models for the Evaluation of Bias Content in Instructional Materials (2009) that is made available through OER Commons under a public domain license. This resource attempts to both update the content with more contemporary vocabulary and also to narrow the scope to evaluating still images as they are found online. It was developed as a secondary project while working on a BranchED OER grant during summer 2020. It includes an attached rubric adapted from the Washington Model (2009).

Material Type: Assessment, Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Kimberly Grotewold

OER Rubrics | Achieve.org

Open Educational Resources (OER) offer opportunities for increasing equity and access to high-quality K–12 education. Many state education agencies now have offices devoted to identifying and using OERs and other digital resources in their states. To help states, districts, teachers, and other users determine the degree of alignment of OERs to the Common Core State Standards, and to determine aspects of quality of OERs, Achieve has developed eight rubrics in collaboration with leaders from the OER community.

Material Type: Assessment, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Achieve

Equity-Oriented Resource Criteria

The following set of criteria was developed by Branch Alliance for Educator Diversity (BranchED) to evaluate Open Educational Resources (OER) objects through an equity lens. These criteria were adapted from the Inclusive Instruction and Intersectional Content principles from the BranchED Quality Framework.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Aubree Evans

Chrome Extensions for Struggling Students and Special Needs

Technology can be a powerful tool to assist students with special needs or any sort of learning challenge. In particular the Chrome web browser allows users to install a wide variety of web extensions that provide tools that can help all learners, regardless of ability level. In this blog post we will take a look at over 30 Chrome web extensions that can assist students in five main categories: Text to Speech Readability Reading Comprehension Focus Navigation Some of the tools fit into more than one topic, but each is only listed once. Certainly this list does not cover all of the useful web extensions available for struggling learners, but it is a great place to begin. In addition to the list of extension, I have also linked in the video from a webinar I did a while back on "Google Tools for Special Needs".

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Eric Curts

Accessibility in Online Learning

Accessibility in Online Learning

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Reading

Author: Evan Abbey

Secondary Transition: Helping Students with Disabilities Plan for Post-High School Settings

This Module focuses on the transition process from high school to post-secondary settings. Among other topics, it discusses IEP planning, engaging students in the process so as to become better advocates for their own needs, and the importance of outside agencies such as vocational rehabilitation (est. completion time: 1 hour).

Material Type: Module

The Global Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Classroom

The Global UDL Classroom was initially designed between a U.S. based and international partnering institution of higher education to build an online learning community around UDL. The focus of this collaboration highlighted opportunities to engage both doctoral students and international educators in jointly building a virtual model classroom to study UDL principles, pilot applications of innovative pedagogical methods, and evaluate the effectiveness of online resources in varied and culturally different educational settings.

Material Type: Assessment, Case Study, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Authors: Frances Smith, Serra De Arment

Digital Formative Assessment Tools

This lesson focuses on the importance of formative assessment.  Four resources are showcased in this lesson.  Teachers need to choose at least two or three formative assessment tools on the attached list that are new to them.  They will create an assessment with each tool they choose that they will use with students. Teachers will participate in a 3-2-1 Bridge Activity before they begin this lesson.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Salli Pence

Formative Assessment During Distance Learning

What does formative assessment look like during distance learning? Without proximity, how can teachers gather and act on “in-the-moment” information – the behaviors, emotions, and situations that affect learning and inform instruction? This resource provides explanations, sample questions, and possible actions to implement formative assessment during distance learning scenarios. Image by Peggy und Marco Lachmann-Anke from Pixabay

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction

Formative Assessment Learning Module

Professional Learning module from the Center for Assessment. Objectives: Describe formative assessment (what it is and what it is not), explain features of high-quality formative assessment, and create a formative assessment relevant to your particular content/grade using the provided tool.

Material Type: Lesson

Author: Center for Assessment

Assessment in Education

This is a complete course for those who are teaching pre-service teachers about Assessment. 

Material Type: Full Course

Author: Jeanne Burth

Strategy Guide: Tracking and Supporting Student Learning With Kid Watching

In this strategy guide, you’ll learn how to use kidwatching to track and support student learning. Teachers observe and take notes on students’ understanding of skills and concepts and then use the observations to determine effective strategies for future instruction. Yetta Goodman popularized the term kidwatching, the practice of “watching kids with a knowledgeable head” (9). In kidwatching, teachers observe students’ activities, noticing how they learn and what they do to explore their ideas. Teachers then examine anecdotal notes and other evidence to see how and when students engage in learning. After this review, teachers use their observations to differentiate activities to meet the needs of individual students. The strategy is based on “a seek-to-understand stance by attempting to look at life, literacy, and learning through the children’s eyes” (Mills 2). By discovering how students learn, teachers are able to choose the most effective strategies for each pupil.

Material Type: Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Differentiated Instruction: Maximizing the Learning of All Students

This Module discusses the importance of differentiating three aspects of instruction: content, process (instructional methods), and product (assessment). It explores the student traits—readiness level, interest, and learning preferences—that influence learning (est. completion time: 3 hours).

Material Type: Module

The Biculturalization or Intersectionality of Identity in the 21st Century

This lesson and project emerged out of the course EDU 311: C, D, and E in Global Education (Culture, Diversity, and Equality). Specifically we look at the diversity of voices and cultures present in our nation’s history, which may or not be located directly in the curriculum. For this reason students, future teachers especially, need to be aware to omitted or misrepresented voices, including diversity responsibly, and be sensitive to diversity or multicultural education. The text we use is Diversity Matters (Spradlin, 2012) which delves specifically into dominant culture and minority culture helps to first frame then self identify the concept of intersectionality.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Montana State Univ-Northern Faculty

A Framework for Implementing OER-Based Lesson Design Activities for Pre-Service Teachers" by Dongho Kim (2018)

This resource contains links and images from the article, "A Framework for Implementing OER-Based Lesson Design Activities for Pre-Service Teachers" by Dongho Kim (2018).

Material Type: Lesson

Author: Aubree Evans

Permissions Guide For Educators

This guide provides a primer on copyright and use permissions. It is intended to support teachers, librarians, curriculum experts and others in identifying the terms of use for digital resources, so that the resources may be appropriately (and legally) used as part of lessons and instruction. The guide also helps educators and curriculum experts in approaching the task of securing permission to use copyrighted materials in their classrooms, collections, libraries or elsewhere in new ways and with fewer restrictions than fair use potentially offers. The guide was created as part of ISKME's Primary Source Project, and is the result of collaboration with copyright holders, intellectual property experts, and educators.

Material Type: Reading

Author: Admin

Creative Commons License Quiz

The following link will take you to the Creative Commons License Quiz:https://forms.gle/3PEZ9syDovgeJgvaA  The information in this quiz has been adapted from the "Permissions Guide by Educators," and Creative Commons Licenses by Sagender Singh Parmar. This quiz was made by Aubree Evans for Branch Alliance for Educator Diversity.

Material Type: Lesson

Author: Aubree Evans

Diversity and English Language Development for Grades K-8

This course provides knowledge and skills in supporting English Language Development and Inclusive Learningthroughout Out-of-School (OST) environments. Educators learn learn to welcome, support, and enhance language and literacy skill development for all children and youth and respond appropriately to the individualized ELD needs of non-native speakers of English.

Material Type: Full Course

Authors: Elise Scott, Susan Vinovrski