Revise an Activity
Why Revise?
I can revise a Pathways Project activity to fit the unique needs of my students, classroom, and community.
Now that you’ve identified an activity to use in your classroom, you’ll learn how to revise it to fit the needs of your students, classroom, and community. All of the 900+ Pathways Project activities are ready to customize or in other words, ready to make it fit the way you like to teach!
The majority of teachers customize the OER materials they find at least half or more of the time. The most common reason is to make something more appropriate for the age of the student, but there are many other reasons we’ll explore below!
You may wish to revise an activity to:
- Better fit your preferences/teaching style
- Localize the materials to fit your learning environment
- Alter the length or difficulty
- Adjust the content to fit a different age group
- Adapt for a different language
- Address diversity needs, improve multiculturalism and make sure students “see themselves in the materials!”
– “What is Localization?” from the “How Tos” of OER Commons, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License 2.0 license.
In the video below, Kelly Arispe describes the importance of a revise mindset and the benefits it may bring to your classroom:
“Let’s say that students cannot ever remember the word for “mother-in-law”. So the next chapter is about shopping. You cannot adapt a textbook. “Mother-in-law” might never come up again. In an OER, I could adapt a question. For a shopping spree, I could say that we were going shopping for a mother-in-law. What articles of clothing would students feel comfortable buying for their mother-in-law? And which ones they would avoid? I could keep on with clothing but bring the hard vocabulary term up again and again. Very adaptable and personalized to each classroom experience.”
— Pathways Project Teacher
The right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself (e.g., translate the content into another language).
