Teaching Strategies
Experiential Learning: The major strategy for this unit is to engage the students in hands-on learning. I want them to be actively participating in a hands-on creation of an adaptation. The writing activities and film-making projects are designed to be exploratory for the students, so they are engaged in the enjoyment of the experience and process, as well as the product, their film.
Differentiated Instruction: The students will use a variety of approaches, working sometimes individually and sometimes in small groups, determined by the complexity of the activity. Because these are young children with variance in levels and background, guidance and pacing are adjusted to ensure that all students are engaged and active throughout the learning experiences. Students will have opportunities to work with a variety of peers as they explore adaptation ideas using a variety of materials.
Cooperative Learning: The students will be given opportunities to work as cooperative groups to complete assignments and activities. This strategy will allow students to work collaboratively, taking on various roles necessary to complete the storyboards and adaptation planning, with a focus on success for all. A culminating activity will be the “movie day” that includes families and guests from within the school.
Use of Technology: The students will be creating their own movies with the use of classroom iPads. Working in groups, they will share the responsibility of filming individual scenes based on the storyboards they developed in their cooperative groups.
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