Mission of the resource room:
To provide a safe and active learning environment where students of all Learning Styles may practice respect for themselves, others, and their surroundings. Each student will learn academic responsibilities to be carried out through the practices of Self Advocacy, and will prepare to be a self-confident life-long learner. Learning Strategies will be taught and practiced to enhance the student's ability to achieve personal goals, and the Annual goals set forth in their IEP.
SYLLABUS
Quarter 1:
Parent/Student Letter must be signed and returned by first day of class
Enduring Understanding:
I am in the resource room to gain:
insight into what type of learner I am
good learning strategies
academic support
appropriate self-advocacy skills
the ability to be an independent lifelong learner
Organizational skills are key to success and need to be learned and
practiced
Essential Questions:
Are we all in resource room for the same purpose?
What does academic success look like?
What is expected of me as a student?
Activities:
-Get to know each other
-Schedule set-up
-Assignment Book set-up
-Academic material check-list
-Hand-in Parent/Student Letter
Enduring Understandings:
-Learning styles are different ways of thinking and learning.
-Every person learns differently and the way you learn, and take in
the world, is unique to you.
-Understanding your learning style can dictate what learning
environments are best for you, and what learning strategies
will work best.
-Understanding both my learning style and my multiple intelligences
will make me a stronger student.
Essential Questions:
Is it important to understand how other people learn?
Is there a connection between how I learn and how I perform in school?
What can I gain by knowing how I learn?
Performance Task:
Starting a study skills inventory binder
Activities:
Online Learning Style Questionaire: Link
Directions:
1)Take the learning style questionaire, then print your results.
2) Check your score against the handout Ms. Munn has given you
3) Inventory your goals for learning this semester
Multiple intelligences survey and scoring
" When students identify their natural learning style and begin to
incorporate new ways of studying that match their style, their
grades improve, and so do their test scores."
-Dr. Lynne O'Brien (New Horizons for Learning)
Enduring Understandings:
-A learning strategy is an approach to learning and using information.
They help guide by supplying an explicit set of steps.
Appropriate strategies:
1) Cue the user to DO something
2) Offer a way to remember steps
3) Address a difficult learning process
-Learning strategies help students focus on tasks, clarify, and ultimately
make them successful students and problem solvers
-How to use the MVRHS.ORG website for academic support
-Appropriate test taking strategies
-Reading comprehension practices
-The use of graphic organizers aid in note taking, assignment completion,
pre-writing, writing, and reading tasks.
-Key words can be used as clues when responding to free response and
multiple choice questions
Essenial Questions:
What does learning feel like? What does it look like?
What does academic success look like? What does failing look like?
How do you know you know something?
Is learning about different learning strategies enough to assure
success in my academics areas?
Performance Task:
Continuing to build the study skills inventory binder
Activities:
-Using the MVRHS website, we will print teacher rules and expectations
for each academic class and add them to the study skills binder.
Also, we will becoming familiar with Ms. Munn's web page and how
it can be used to support your success in all content areas
- group graphic organizer activities:
-Learning strategy excersizes for certain objectives
READING- Word Identification, Visual Imagery Strategy,
Self- Questioning, Paraphrasing
WRITING- InSpect Strategy,
STUDYING- First Letter Mnemonic, Paired Associates
Strategy, LINCS Vocab Strategy
TEST TAKING- PIRATES, ACE guessing technique,
Absolute and Non-absolute words,
NOTE TAKING
Enduring Understandings:
-Learning is an active process, not passive.
-How to take responsibility for decisions, choices,
and actions, and how to develop goals and pursue goals
from improving performance
-Students control what, how, how well, and why they learn
-Steps to better self-advocacy
Essential Questions:
Whose responsibility is my education?
Why do I have to advocate for myself?
Performance Task:
Student will participate in an annual review meeting for their
IEP, where they will use their personal inventory of strengths
and weaknesses to advocate for their educational needs
Enduring Understanding:
-Three goals that are a focus for my academic success
-Parts of my IEP that I must know and what it means
Essential Questions:
Does my IEP do all the work for me?
Activity: Accessing the Annual Goals section of the student's
IEP and setting 3 academic goals, on which the student
will focus throughout the quarter/year.
Ongoing throughout the year:
We will practice using learning strategies in the resource room, and
the general education classroom, via assignments, projects, and tests.
Also, we will self-evaluate our individual progress by completing