AgendaCourse Introduction and Design Strategy

Course Description and Learning ObjectivesCourse vision and practice – scaffolding choices and applicationsTraditional flipped classroom definition and exampleWhat flipped in PED 3301 and scaffolding choices

Course Features Tour Course design map

Course Home PageModule Learning Content and Multimedia ResourcesAssignments, Assessments and Activities Samples

Course Evaluation Results

Catalog Description

This course is an introduction to exceptionalities among children, with emphasis on prevalence, assessment, characteristics, classroom management, and other educational considerations. Additional topics include legal factors in special education, bilingualism, parents and families, and current trends and issues.

Course Objectives

Course Vision and Practice• Every student in the course is treated as though they are special and gifted students.

• The course presents content information in multiple formats (visual, auditory)

• Students are immersed into the culture of disabilities which helps them offer services and accommodations for students with disabilities that are essential for success in their classroom.

• The course provides students with multiple means of demonstrating what they have learned

• Extra credit work offers the opportunity to leave one's comfort zone and push to the next level by applying their learning toward solving problems from the field.

• Extra credit is voluntary and offers students a means for critical thinking and problem solving opportunities

• Extra credit work motivates students by offering them multiple ways to recover from poor grades.

• The course provides individualized instruction, furnishes immediate feedback to address the different learning styles, and allows students various ways to express their learning-UDL/differentiating instruction.

Traditional Flipped Classroom Example

High School Flipped Classroom

What Flipped in PED 3301?Everyone turns in work the same way.

Scaffold>Multiple ways to turn in work based on learning style.Extra Credit Work choices forLearning applications.

Background –Scaffolding- Choices and Applications

Students demonstrate their learning on video.

http://uhdmediasite.uhd.edu/Mediasite/Play/64ec2158399a46a1a78d73ded0ed21091d

Course Features Tour

Hybrid & Online Course Design Map

Course Entry Page

Module Learning Content Example

Crossword Puzzle Activity

Edutopia Videos

Films on Demand Videos

Chapters 1-4 Video Assignments

Recognizing Children with Special Needs

• Identifying Children with Special Needs*• Meeting the Needs of Children with Special Needs* • ESL: Integrating ESL Students into the Classroom* • Racial Bias *• Multiple Intelligences (Edutopia Video)• Learning Styles(Edutopia Video)• Project Based Learning (Edutopia Video)

• * Films on Demand Video - UHD Library Subscription

IRIS Resource Center

Chapter Discussion Postings

IRIS Assignments

Project Samples

Field Experience and Literacy Paper

Juvenile Justice Center Field Trip

Sample Video Quiz: Module 1

Class Blogs

Class Wikis

Student Course ExperienceStudents liked the course structure and navigation because it was easy to understand and use

Students appreciated the assignments because they are applicable to real life experience

Students enjoyed the videos because it gives a face to the culture of disabilities

Field Experience/Literacy Project (Service Learning Project) – This activity brings it all together in terms of applying learning to real experience

Student video:http://uhdmediasite.uhd.edu/Mediasite/Play/03da7a4d43be4452a5ed7bebb79d28721d

Course Results

Overall Evaluation Results• Enrollment remains high – courses always make• Student satisfaction is high• Students appreciate extra credit work opportunities• Retention is high – none to low drop out rate• Grade distribution results – out of 105 students, only 2-3

maximum will fail the course

Student video:http://uhdmediasite.uhd.edu/Mediasite/Play/40b0e087c4ac4cf2a29f8029d18c71e51d

Dr. John Kellykellyj@uhd.edu713.221.8952