Curriculum development refers to the development of classroom-ready instructional materials. Resources in this section include articles, case stories, toolkits, and information on training opportunities about incorporating assistive and educational technology into a curriculum that is accessible to all students.

 

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21st Century Information Fluency Project

This resource provides technology-related lesson plans, implementation tips, listings for free professional development opportunities and annotated links for other useful resources. 

Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Adapting Language Arts, Social Studies, and Science Materials for the Inclusive Classroom

"This course presents effective, easy-to-implement strategies for adapting curricular materials to meet the needs of diverse learners in inclusive secondary school classrooms."  This course focuses on the development of language arts, social studies, and science materials. A registration fee and textbooks are required.

Council for Exceptional Children

Arcademic Skill Builders

Arcademic Skill Builders is a nonprofit web site that features online educational games offering a new approach to learning basic math, language arts, vocabulary, and thinking skills. Inspired by arcade games and the intense engagement they foster between the game and player, the site's programs stem from experience, systematic observations, and research in understanding student learning in school and social situations.

Assistive Technology in K-12 Schools

This resource provides tips on how to integrate assistive technology into the classroom.  Information includes success stories, case studies, quizzes, and lesson ideas. 

Alliance for Technology Access

Background Knowledge Instruction and the Implications for UDL Implementation (Word)

In this brief, find methods and materials that can be used to support the implementation of background knowledge instruction in concert with the principles of universal design for learning (UDL).

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Best Evidence Encyclopedia (BEE)

This website presents information on high-quality evaluations of educational programs, including "educator's summaries" of research on educational programs and full-text reviews on each topic.

Brainboost

Brain Boost, a free online resource, is similar to a typical search engine – students look up information and receive a list of web pages that meet their criteria – except that students search by asking questions. Brain Boost allows students to search for answers to a specific question (i.e. why is the sky blue?) rather than using search terms (i.e., color of the sky). Brain Boost then provides students with answers to their question ranked according to which one is the most likely to be correct.

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CAST Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Book Builder

The Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Book Builder is an interactive online tool that enables educators to develop their own digital books to support reading instruction for children aged 3–10. Here teachers can create, edit, and save universally designed texts that support diverse learners. Terry, an animated character, guides educators as they write text, choose images, and develop scripts for the prompts, hints, and models that will help build young readers' skills.

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CAST Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Lesson Builder

CAST UDL Lesson Builder is an interactive online tool that helps educators develop or adapt lessons that increase access to learning for all students based on UDL principles. UDL Lesson Builder walks educators through the process of customizing the curriculum to align standards and meet individual learners' needs. At each step, educators can read or hear explanations of the UDL principles behind each innovation.

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Classroom 2.0 Wiki

This site is devoted to building resources for the classroom and professional-development use of Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies. It provides you with a good overview of the technologies, some ideas for lesson plans, and then points you in the direction of more detailed resources.

Classroom Technology Management

Discover tips for arranging classroom technology to maximize learning and minimize potential disruptions.

Concord Consortium Blog

The Concord Consortium is a nonprofit educational research and development organization that works to create interactive materials that exploit the power of information technologies. The blog for the Concord Consortium features brief articles on a variety of topics relating to educational technology.

Content Meets Technology in Mashups

Create Online Behavior Report Cards

Collect ongoing ratings of students’ behavior, work habits, and work completion with Daily Behavior Report Cards (DBRCs), which can be customized in daily or weekly format, as well as ready-to-use progress-monitoring charts.

Democracy Project Election Lesson Plans

Explore lesson plans designed to tie to state and national standards for civics, history, math, and language arts focused around elections.

Designing Accessible Curriculum

This three-week online workshop will discuss the functioning of adaptive technologies with web browsers, HTML authoring techniques to accommodate these technologies, and strategies for integrating alternative formats into overall web design.

Special Needs Opportunity Windows

Differentiated Instruction and Implications for UDL Implementation (Word)

The purpose of this information brief is to provide an overview of differentiated instruction and its connection to Universal Design.

Access Center

Ease History

EASE History is a rich learning environment that supports the learning of US history and to help learning think more like historians. Find over 600 videos and photographs. Search by three learning modes, single and multiple theme searches, and resources support the comparing and contrasting of historical cases.

Edutopia's Project-Based Learning Teaching Module

Edutopia's Project-Based Learning teaching module is designed for either a two- to three-hour class or session or a one- to two-day workshop, and is divided into two parts.

Enhancing Your Instruction Through Differentiation

Enhancing Your Instruction Through Differentiation is a professional development module created by Access Center staff for technical assistance providers or district or State personnel. This module provides background information about differentiated instruction, demonstrates differentiation strategies, and addresses issues of implementation at the school and district level.

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