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The Learning Bridges courses have the same sections in each of the classes to allow
teachers familiarity with navigation, support, tools, and communication tools.
They are:
- Getting Started – An introduction by the animated
guide
 to the
sections of the course, the navigation tools, the collaboration and communications
tools, the buttons, and Professor Ed provides a new-to-known comparison with learning
online to learning in a face-to-face environment for educators.
- Course Overview – This section contains the Course Description (includes the declarative and procedural
objective to be met, content, and assessment tasks), Syllabus,
and the Evaluation Rubric
- Course Pre-Test – This section is the key that unlocks
the rest of the course.
- Terminology - This section contains the concepts,
vocabulary and ideas that are essential to the course. It is followed by a short
Terminology Test. (Lesson 1
& 2)
- Course Content – This section contains Lessons 3,
4, 5, 6, and 7.
- Lesson 3 – Impact on Learning - This lesson teaches
how to choose a strategy, how much difference in learning it can achieve, and when
to use the practice to maximize learning.
- Lesson 4 – Connection to Brain Research - This lesson
teaches how the strategy is brain-compatible. This is often why the strategy works
to improve academic achievement for students.
- Lesson 5 – Connections to Multiple Intelligences
- This lesson teaches how to modify the strategy in order to differentiate instruction.
- Lesson 6 – Modeling and Guided Practice – This lesson
is where the strategy is taught, modeled and guided practice is provided for the
learner. Teachers learn how to design, implement, and evaluate student learning
with the strategy.
- Lesson 7 – Application in the Classroom – This lesson
is completed in the REAL classroom with REAL students. Teachers use a lesson planning
form that contains the critical attributes of the strategy. This is the performance
task needed to assure proficiency of procedural knowledge.
- LESSON DESIGN: Includes a Jump Start Your Thinking,
Tutorial, Assignment and Learning Log Reflections
- Reflections/Evaluation – This section contains the
Post Test and Final Reflections for the learning. (Lesson 8
and 9 )
- Resource Center – A resource center provides a complete
bibliography for the course, a list of websites for further information and materials,
and access to the Online Web Store where teachers can purchase instructional materials
linked to the course.
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 EMBEDDED
INTO ALL LESSONS ARE THE MODIFICATIONS TO CLOSE THE GAP IN ACHIEVEMENT FOR DIVERSE
LEARNERS, i.e., students of poverty, students from diverse cultures, and English
language learners, BASED ON THE RESEARCH OF DR. BELINDA WILLIAMS AND DR. RUBY PAYNE.
Click here for more information on Embedded Modifications to Close
the Gap in Achievement
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