Exceptional and English Language Learners in the Inclusive Classroom hosts a collection of videos and other resources curated for topics in a 15-week course. Each video is accompanied with discussion questions so that users can interact with video content.
Type of Material:
Development Tool; Collection
Recommended Uses:
The collection of videos and questions will benefit in-service and pre-service teachers as well as school administrators or anybody interested in pedagogical practices oriented to guide learners with special needs and skills. The material could be used in a variety of situations:
in-class
homework
individual
team
supplement to lecture
self-paced
Technical Requirements:
Users will need realiable Internet and PDF reader.
Accessed using Google Chrome
Identify Major Learning Goals:
Exceptional and English Language Learners in the Inclusive Classroom aims to provide a collection of videos and questions on the needs of students with a certain learning need. The collection of videos considers different needs and after each video users can answer a number of questions.
Target Student Population:
College Upper Division
Teacher Candidates
Professional In-service Teachers
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
Being cognizant about topics on learners with special needs and skills.
Understanding of child development
Knowledge of special education laws and policies
Awareness of different exceptionalities
Cultural competence
Ability to navigate web-based multimedia resources
Content Quality
Rating:
Strengths:
The site collection aims to provide guidance on how to optimize students with special needs. In the past, these learners were left behind and nobody paid attention to how much they are capable to do. The website reorients fixed mindsets on how to work with special learning needs.
Relevant content: The videos and related questions encourage thoughtful and meaningful responses.
Open-ended: The videos and related questions encourage participants to think critically and engage in a meaningful discussion.
Clear: The questions are clear and concise, with no ambiguity.
Thought-provoking content: The questions encourage participants to share their personal opinions, experiences, and insights.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Rating:
Strengths:
The material has been created for people working in the educational setting; however, parents might highly benefit as they can support their children at home.
These resources could easily be used to create meaningful and relevant assignments.
The videos and questions could be integrated into the standard curriculum.
The materials could be used to introduce or reinforce the concepts.
These resources could be used for team projects, individual homework assignments or in-class activities.
Concerns:
Learning outcomes and an overview for the overall material are not provided. The addition of an introductory paragraph explaining the author's purpose would be helpful for implementation.
Providing student learning outcomes in the weekly outline. would help guide the user as well.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Strengths:
Exceptional and English Language Learners in the Inclusive Classroom has been hosted in a PDF document in which users will find different links to YOUTUBE videos and other plaforms. The navigation can be very intuitive so everyone will figure out how to move around.
The videos are operable.
The pdf document was easy to access.
The video presentations would be familiar to students.
The questions are inclusive, welcoming diverse perspectives and opinions.
The questions are timely and relevant to current practice.
Engaging: The videos are engaging and interesting.
Concerns:
The PDF document is not ADA compliant, however, it is shared under Creative Common licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International, so revisions are acceptable.
In order to meet standards,
use descriptive text for the URLS
use appropriate headings
avoid underlining except for URL descriptive text
Creative Commons:
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