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Bill Proposal Activity Artifact
Bill Proposal was a very interesting lesson, if you look at the lesson plans you'll probably notice that this is not mentioned in any of the lessons, reason for it is because this was strictly an impromptu. I was teaching my first block class about how a bill becomes a law and after I realized it was very stale, very boring and just seemed too much for them, but it was my higher level class so I got away with it. So for the last two blocks, which are my lower level students, I made up an activity on the spot which worked really well. This Bill Proposal was a group activity where half the class was the House of Representatives and the other half the Senate. Using the flowchart I have given them, we "acted out" what it was really like to to get a bill passed. The reason this is placed in this standard is because it shows my variety of instruction when dealing with diverse learners and inclusion students, that I can teach lecturing, but I also can make spur of the moment changes to get group work done as well. I got away with lecturing during my first block because they are the more "advanced" but this worked really well for the last two blocks.
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How a bill becomes a law flowchart (modified)
Refer back to the Constitution/Bill of Rights unit to find the advanced version of the flowchart. The advanced version I handed out to my higher level students because I felt they could understand the work and could comprehend the flowchart much more easily than my other lower level classes. However, I had to adjust my teaching a little to get this modified version of a flowchart to have both my ELL students understand what was happening in the chart, but also my inclusion students. This is in a shape of a game board and the wording is much more easier for them to understand and much more easy to follow than the advanced version. Since I realized from my research that ELL students perform better with a graphic organizer, I figured this should cater to them, while the wording was simple enough to engage the inclusion students. This was the flowchart used for the impromptu bill proposal activity.
Author:
Michael DiBiasi
Last modified:
5/16/2012 7:19 AM (EST)