This past week I have begun thinking about what I might want to do my unit plan on. Working in special education I am faced with a slightly different set of challenges. The greatest challenge is that most of my students in a class are all on different levels when it comes to academics. However, I do teach an economics class and as I have thought about it more I will likely narrow it down to a unit related to my economics class. I try to make my special education economics class as practical as possible for my students. So I am in the process of narrowing down what unit I want to create. I have also played around with the idea of doing my unit on self advocacy. However, I am finding it difficult to work in my material. At any rate I will make my decision and then go with it.
I also want to comment just briefly on the essential questions. I like the idea of the essential questions as they relate to creating and planning my unit plan. It is a neat idea to work almost backwards and it provides an excellent starting point. This is a great tool in working with special education students as they are very much "big picture" type students. So I think the idea of essential questions will help in all my units not just the one I am creating for the class.
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Interest - well thought out process -- so how do you think project based learning will work with your students?
As a fellow SpEd teacher I know what you are facing with the unit issue. I teach economics too. I bet there are some good units you could do. There are quite a few technology based activities that I use with my kids. I tend to find that my students don't work well with big picture concepts. They are very concrete and want to know specifics. Good luck with your unit. Let me know if you need some curiculum or anything.
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