Kristy Coletti is a fifth-grade math teacher at Groton-Dunstable Regional Middle School. She put together this amazing chart last year for an assignment for the UDL Design Lab course that I co-taught with Dr. Katie Novak during the 2018-2019 school year.
What I love most about this chart is that Kristy’s work strengthens Eureka, challenges it from the perspective of Universal Design for Learning without losing any of the high-quality content that Eureka brought to the math game when it first came on the scene.
Please enjoy and be inspired–I know I am every time I read it!
Eureka Lesson Outline |
Potential Barriers |
Additional Activities to provide access to all |
Application Problem
(Teacher led/Large group)
(8-10 min) |
- Audio/Visual learning only
- Traditional “calling on” students
- Think time- dominant students may get called on more frequently, not allowing all students time to think and share their ideas
- Language dense problems do not allow access for all students
- Time constraints- not much time allotted for questions from class.
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- Think-Pair-Share
- Present/Post the application problem in audio and visual on google classroom for reteach
- Manipulatives
- Graphic organizers that remind students of how to write a constructed response
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Fluency Practice
(Teacher led/Large group) (12 min) |
- Speed is rewarded
- Processing time
- Are we sending the message that faster is better?
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- Games that help build fluency as an activity after the problem set is complete
- Choice of independent vs. group vs pair work for fluency
- Choice of games to practice fluency (computer, dice, cards, etc)
- Fluency practice where students are not timed allow access for all students, regardless of their ability to regulate themselves
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Concept Development
(Teacher led/ Large group) (30 min) |
- Lacks multiple means of presentation for all types of learning styles
- Lots of teacher talk, hard to maintain all students focus
- Think time- dominant students may get called on more frequently, not allowing all students time to think and share their ideas
- Language dense problems do not allow access for all students, especially when these problems are presented orally in a large group format.
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- Video representation of different concepts in the concept development
- Access to highlighters to mark up the problems
- Provide copies of the concept development problems to students as the teacher works through them on the board
- Call on a variety of kids using a variety of different means
- Partner students up
- Zearn lessons
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Problem Set
(Independent Work)
(20 min) |
- Language dense word problems occupy 2/3 of each problem set.
- Students with reading struggles may struggle decoding words and their meanings.
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- Small group as needed
- Use of manipulatives
- Access to graphic organizers
- Post problems around the room for students to work on in pairs, get up and move around
- Math workshop menu that cover the concepts covered in the problem set allow for student choice
- Check your problem set answer with a friend
- Make problem set word problems on index cards and have students choose cards (offered in a box on the table) with problems to complete using Math Workshop
- Access to answer key
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Debrief
(Teacher led/Large group)
(10 min) |
- Auditory presentation of teacher to student has many of the same barriers previously listed above.
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- Students can take their own temperature on how they feel about the lesson for the day
- Students can share one thing they learned/ one part they still have a question about by writing it out rather than sharing it orally with the whole class
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Exit Ticket
(Independent Work/3 min) |
- Language dense problems
- Speed needed to complete before dismissal from class and onto next academic block
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- Students can be given one problem rather than four to show what they know.
- Exit ticket could be given instead of homework, or homework used to assess their knowledge of a given lesson.
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This is an awesome chart. I teach sixth grade math with eureka and I’m just learning about UDL. Eureka 6th grade format is far different than 5th grade. I wonder if there is a chart for 6-8 eureka?
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I will share your comment with Kristy! She wrote this chart as part of a course she took last year, so I don’t know if someone else has a version of their own somewhere else. Since Kristy teaches 5th grade, she made this chart for what she was teaching.
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