UDL in Action Rice Lake High School British Literature
Summary
TLDRAmy Pelle, an English teacher and theater director at Rice Lake High School, shares her 24th year of educational experience. She discusses the implementation of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in her British literature class, emphasizing student choice and engagement. Pelle highlights projects that cater to multiple intelligences, tech tool integration, and creative assignments like graphic essays, which foster high-level thinking and cater to diverse learning styles. Her approach encourages hands-on learning, fostering a close-knit classroom environment and enhancing understanding of literature through relatable projects.
Takeaways
- 📚 Amy Pelle is an English teacher and theater director at Rice Lake High School with 24 years in education and 23 in the district.
- 🛠 She has been using Universal Design for Learning (UDL) philosophies for a long time and has found new ways to increase student engagement this year.
- 🎭 In her British literature class, she focuses on core literary pieces and incorporates student choice to showcase their learning.
- 🧠 She utilizes multiple intelligence projects to allow students to explore and learn about the United Kingdom or related topics in diverse ways.
- 💡 Amy encourages the use of technology, as seen on page 205 of a referenced book, and has students create projects using tools like Powtoon, websites, and Animoto.
- 📈 She experimented with assignment choices, allowing students to either write a standard essay or a graphic essay on 'Macbeth', yielding positive results.
- 📚 Amy provides a variety of literature stories but gives students the option to choose which ones to read, fostering engagement and independent work.
- 🤝 She emphasizes a close-knit classroom environment where students sit together, act out skits, and understand each other better, enhancing learning.
- 🎨 Amy herself took up a new artistic challenge by creating a map of the British Isles to express herself and understand the topic of folk music.
- 🌐 The class projects are connected to the British Isles, with students choosing diverse topics such as road family music, literature, and history.
- 🔥 A specific project mentioned involved creating a terrarium for 'The Mournful Child', showing the hands-on and creative approach to learning in Amy's class.
Q & A
Who is Amy Pelle and what is her role at Rice Lake High School?
-Amy Pelle is an English teacher and the director of theater at Rice Lake High School.
How long has Amy been in the field of education?
-Amy has been in education for 24 years, with her 23rd year being in the district.
What educational philosophy does Amy use in her teaching?
-Amy uses the philosophies behind Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in her classroom.
What did Amy focus on in her British literature class to increase student engagement?
-Amy focused on incorporating choice-based activities, multiple intelligence projects, and technology tools to increase student engagement.
What is a 'multiple intelligence project' as described by Amy?
-A multiple intelligence project involves students using one or multiple intelligences to learn about a topic related to British literature or the United Kingdom and presenting their findings in various formats.
How did Amy incorporate technology into her teaching?
-Amy used technology by encouraging students to create websites, PowToons, Animoto, S'more, and Flipsnack projects to showcase their knowledge.
What alternative to the standard Macbeth essay did Amy offer her students?
-Amy offered students the choice to either write a standard Macbeth essay or create a graphic essay.
How does Amy provide choice in her literature curriculum?
-Amy provides a menu of literature stories with guidelines and parameters, allowing students to choose which stories they want to read or avoid.
What was Amy's approach to fostering a close-knit classroom environment?
-Amy fostered a close-knit classroom by having students sit together, act out skits, and relate the material back to one another.
What was the focus of Amy's first project in her class?
-The focus of Amy's first project was to explore the concept of folk music and its connection to the British Isles.
How did Amy's students demonstrate their understanding of the material?
-Students demonstrated their understanding through various projects, including creating terrariums, using color as an organizational device, and presenting on topics related to the British Isles.
Outlines
📚 Innovative Teaching with UDL in British Literature
Amy Pelle, an English teacher and theater director at Rice Lake High School, discusses her 24 years of experience in education, with a focus on Universal Design for Learning (UDL). She highlights her use of UDL to enhance student engagement, particularly in her British literature class for juniors and seniors. Amy emphasizes the importance of selecting core literature pieces and incorporating student choice in learning, such as showcasing their interests through multiple intelligence projects. These projects can range from electronic presentations to written stories, allowing students to explore topics related to British literature or the United Kingdom in a personalized manner. Amy also shares her experience with using technology, such as creating a powtoon about page 205 of a tech tool book, to encourage students to demonstrate their knowledge in diverse formats, including websites and various multimedia presentations.
🎨 Embracing Creativity and Choice in Learning
The script continues with Amy's personal journey in embracing creativity and choice in her teaching methodology. She shares her experience with a project on folk music from the British Isles, where she used multiple intelligences to connect with the subject matter. Amy admits to lacking artistic ability but found joy and a deeper understanding of the topic through creating a large map of the British Isles. The class environment is depicted as supportive, with students researching the same theme, which facilitates a more hands-on and engaging learning experience. The emphasis is on the importance of choice in learning, allowing students to explore topics in ways that best suit their individual learning styles.
🌿 Project-Based Learning in the British Isles
The final paragraph details a project term where students are tasked with creating projects related to the British Isles, covering a wide range of topics such as road family music, British literature, and history. Each project involves writing about chosen names, explaining them, and using visual elements like color and imagery to organize information. The paragraph showcases the students' enjoyment and learning outcomes from this project-based approach. One student's project on 'mourns in her child' involved creating a terrarium, demonstrating the diversity of projects and the creative freedom allowed. The paragraph concludes with a general reflection on the effectiveness and enjoyment of project-based learning in enhancing understanding and engagement with the subject matter.
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Keywords
💡UDL
💡Student Engagement
💡British Literature
💡Multiple Intelligences
💡Choice
💡Technology Integration
💡Graphic Essay
💡RIT Lit Stories
💡Folk Music
💡Terrarium
Highlights
Amy Pelle is an English teacher and theater director at Rice Lake High School.
She has 24 years of experience in education and 23 years in the district.
Amy has been using Universal Design for Learning (UDL) philosophies for quite some time.
She found new ways to increase student engagement in her classroom this year.
Amy focused on implementing UDL in her British literature class for juniors and seniors.
She selected core pieces of literature and incorporated student choice in the curriculum.
Students showcased their learning through multiple intelligence projects.
Amy used technology to enhance learning, as referenced on page 205 of a book.
Students created websites, powtoons, and other digital projects to demonstrate their knowledge.
Amy introduced a choice between a standard essay and a graphic essay for Macbeth.
This approach fostered high-level thinking and accommodated different learning preferences.
Amy's book contains a variety of literature stories, allowing students to choose what to read.
She emphasizes the importance of student engagement, conversation, and independent work.
Amy's class is close-knit, with a focus on understanding each other and the material.
Students can relate literature to modern day and choose projects that interest them.
Amy explored the concept of folk music and its connection to the British Isles.
Students created projects on various topics related to the British Isles, demonstrating creativity.
Amy's approach to teaching encourages hands-on learning and student choice.
Students find the class engaging and feel they learn more due to the interactive nature.
Transcripts
[Music]
hi I'm Amy Pelle and I am an English
teacher and the director of theater here
at Rice Lake High School and this month
is my 24th year in education my 23rd
year in the district I've been using
philosophies behind UDL for quite some
time although I really found some new
tricks and interesting ways to just up
that student engagement in my classroom
this year and so I'd really liked
specific things and the area that I
really focused on more of my learning
and trials was in my British literature
class and it's a high level laude
laude a pointed class for juniors and
seniors and in nine weeks you cannot do
British literature justice so I picked
some core pieces of literature that we
for sure need to touch on and then I do
a lot of choice so three that my
students are showcasing and then I would
just reference quickly are my multiple
intelligence projects so they use one or
multiple of their intelligences that
we've kind of talked about and they
learn something that relates to either
British literature or the United
Kingdom's and/or its other personalities
and they find something of interest and
they find a text that then uses
is their base for a multiple trip
multiple intelligence project some of
those are presented some of those are
electronic projects some of those are
paper or stories the GAMP they run the
gamut and what's super interesting is
that we don't know exactly what we're
gonna learn about what we do learn is
always way more interesting than what I
would have decided myself so it always
keeps me open and brushed to new ideas
along that lines I really liked page 205
on the tech tools and I used that and
shared it with my class in fact I
created a powtoon about page 205 in
showing them mrs. pally
using that technology and my
encouragement was that's another way to
show what you know is using one of these
new tech tools and I had students who
created websites to show what they know
or powtoons or even some of the other
Animoto zand s'more and flips nakid
bulky and that was kind of cool to see
the electronic projects come out of some
of the students who were so used to
doing a PowerPoint or writing paper
I also took a leap this year and rather
than just assign the standard
I provided some choice there and so I
had seen something on my Facebook feed
and so this year students could either
do this standard Macbeth essay or they
could do a graphic essay and I got some
great results now out of that and I know
that we had some students showcase some
of theirs and I will hang on to some of
those samples so it will be easier to
teach in the future now that I've got
some great points of reference it still
did all of the high end thinking that I
wanted those students to do in terms of
literary analysis but it broke that mold
of the five paragraph essay but at the
same time it honored those students who
wanted to just do a standard essay if
that's the skill they needed to practice
and they wanted to do that as well they
could do that so I like that choice and
then my book is full of just wonderful
variety of RIT lit stories and we don't
have time for everything
so the fact that I give them a menu
I give them some guidelines and
parameters but then they have some
choice of which of those stories they
want to read or which of those stories
they want to avoid and I think that's
also an important option and I saw high
student engagement great student
conversation independent work time so I
could one-on-one with a student while
other kids could just kind of rise to
the occasion and all of those things are
things that
really we're fostered in my Berlet this
year and because I had read the udl for
me I like to be a little bit more
hands-on than not so in class we like to
sit together a lot it's been kind of
being close close-knit I guess sort of
stay in the classroom and we will read
will act out skits and we just work on
being able to I guess understand each
other a little more in the class which
helps with the material we kind of
relate it back to one another and so
this being able to choose projects in
the way we learned them relating them
back to this topic literature both
English and things like that it helps us
understand I guess the nature and so
being able to relate it to modern day so
I guess we start with this project so
what I want like what I was really
interested in was the choice of how we
get
from the British Islands and so what I
was really fascinated with so for my
first project I wanted to show and share
with the class work focus of Commerce
row and what makes it folk music and so
we talked about this thing in class
called multiple intelligences and art
and mathematics and things like that all
fall into that category
and something that I don't really think
I have is that artistic ability so
wanting to show the connection these
lines represent you know like so say
opens expense in Ireland the lines
represent that but I wanted to show like
I didn't want to make a small mouth I
wanted something bigger so I sat down
and apprehended this map of the British
Isles and so it would just I don't know
being able to express Who I am that way
or have the choice to try something new
like art or I don't know it makes me
really happy and it helped me understand
topic a little better
[Music]
so in this class it was nice to have
that choice because it was something new
for me
like everyone researching the same thing
because it helps me to learn in a way
that it's easiest for me to learn
instead of a teacher just for Siobhan
you do this I can learn like
I guess we learn more from this class
your new other class because it's more
hands-on
so like interested in I like how we can
choose
like this no it gives us
weeks so this project term of the thing
with the three projects we have to do
over the course of the class we have to
choose something that has to do with the
British Isles it can be anything like a
lot of people did stuff on the road
family music some people on British
literature project patient's history
horses and so each of these numbers
correspond to text that I wrote about
each of the names
and we had three Pope's for each and
explain them so then we had to come up
with an image the cauldron use color as
an organizational device and also the
fire and then these we didn't
I really enjoy learning I think I think
it's really fun and I learned a lot more
the first project I did mourns in her
child and I made a terrarium I think
everyone does project on one thing
it's reported like that it's
[Music]
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