Check out the coaches' curated collection of high impact instructional strategies. These strategies support reading, writing and math, as well as factors that affect student achievement.
"Teachers can now create a custom passage, on any topic, with (5) corresponding questions and answer keys (of course).
This will allow you to align your lessons closely to the curriculum, build literacy across subject areas, and save time!
Although technology is remarkable, it takes the wisdom of an educator like you to truly breathe life into lessons. So be sure to add your human touch!"
EAL / ESL, Adult, special education options are also available
PowerPlay Young Entrepreneurs is a highly engaging program that is designed for classrooms ranging from grades 4 to 8. Students have fun exploring their passions, talents and interests as they plan and carry out their own business ventures. They make real products, earn real money and donate a portion of their profits to charity.For more information about the program, visit powerplayforsuccess.com.
Processing speed is the pace at which you take in information, make sense of it and begin to respond. This information can be visual, such as letters and numbers. It can also be auditory, such as spoken language.
Having slow processing speed has nothing to do with how smart kids are—just how fast they can take in and use information. It may take kids who struggle with processing speed a lot longer than other kids to perform tasks, both school-related and in daily life.
"Reading Rockets is a national multimedia project that offers a wealth of research-based reading strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help young children learn how to read and read better. Our reading resources assist parents, teachers, and other educators in helping struggling readers build fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills." On this page, find a list of research-based reading strategies, including videos of how to use them, templates, and examples. Explore the rest of the website as well- it offers countless strategies and professional learning opportunities!
"Rebecca Burgess sees a problem with the way many people perceive the autism spectrum. Her resolution? The comic below. The Tumblr user debuted “Understanding the Spectrum” (below), which gets rid of the linear autism spectrum image (i.e. you’re either “not autistic, “very autistic” or somewhere in between) and replaces it with a round spectrum full of several traits or ways the brain processes information."
By Amplify Education. A podcast that dives into different elements of the Science of Reading.
Susan Lambert is joined by Dr. Brittney Bills, educator and recent Science of Reading Star Award Winner to discuss MTSS. Dr. Bills began her journey as a school psychologist for six years before transitioning to the role of curriculum coordinator at Grand Island Public Schools. In this episode, Dr. Bills explains what MTSS is and how it centers on prevention rather than intervention. She talks about the intersection of universal screening data and MTSS and provides advice on evidence-based strategies and techniques to make a positive impact in your classroom. Using examples from her own district, Dr. Bills discusses avoiding burnout, learning to use data, and the process of ongoing improvement.
I watched some YouTube videos on how to set up a YouTube Channel and make the videos private. I am going to share these videos with my class and share the link on Seesaw during this time of Learning at Home.
Peg Dawson and Richard Guare are two of the leading experts on executive skills and how to teach them. This is their website, offering resources and information about professional development opportunities.
Strategies to Build Social Competencies
With the Social Thinking Methodology, you gain evidence-based strategies to help people age 4 through adult improve their social competencies, including: Self-regulation, Social-emotional learning, Executive functioning, Perspective taking, and Social problem solving.
Ross Greene uses the Collaborative Problem Solving model to proactively support student behaviour. He addresses skills that are lagging as a starting point.. If you want to prevent crises rather than manage them, then you’ll need to be almost totally proactive — in other words, early — in your approach to helping your students. Once a kid spins is escalating or has already spun out of control, you’re late. Once you’re using restraint and seclusion, you’re very late. We need to get you out of the heat of the moment.
The outcome for this artifact is to see student engagement and introduce vocabulary. It is based on recommendations from a Speech and Language Pathologist for students with Autism. This was part of an Eiip goal. When creating these stories it is important to keep the following suggestions in mind.
· Stories should be created using simple vocabulary and sentences. The stories should also be created using a repetitive format which will lend itself to allow the student to, eventually, fill in blanks in the story by handing picture cards to the reader (e.g., “Peter plays in the snow with ____.”).
· If there is, eventually, an expectation for students to point to individuals in his/her personalized stories (e.g., mom, dad), he/she will need to have separate pictures to be taught who is who in pictures. Begin this process using errorless learning. This means that the student’s finger should be guided to select the right person he/she has been asked to identify in the picture.
· If the student has demonstrated an interest in turning pages in books, it may be beneficial to use ‘page fluffers’ in the personalized stories to make the pages easier for him/her to manipulate and turn. (Joelle Lowen, 2016)
Ideally the student will be able to complete the cloze sentence either by using a picture or saying the word.
Elonin boxes (or "sound boxes") are an effective instructional strategy to build phonemic and phonological awareness in students. This guide is full of links to deepen teachers' understanding of the strategy as well as links to lesson plans, resources, templates, and articles.
This is a resource list for teaching students of all ages the life skills needed to be successful within the school and after transitioning out of the school building.
This document contains links to and descriptions of resources for a variety of communication skills, social skills and basic life skills. Some resources require purchase, while others are free.
This website is a great place to find resources (that need to be purchased) to support the development and implementation of a sound wall in your classroom.
This 5 minute video explains how to transcribe audio or video files. This can be very helpful for some students as an accommodation, to best meet their learning needs.
Make sure you use the WEB version of MSWord to do this. It will not currently work with the desktop version.
1. Open MSWord (web)
2. Click Dictate
3. Click Transcribe
4. Open your video/audio file and click open
*files can be wav, mp3, mp4, m4a and they must be under 200MB
*you can transcribe up to 300 minutes a month
Dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia—many different learning issues fall under the umbrella of “learning disabilities.” This video from the National Center for Learning Disabilities describes them. It also explains what issues don’t fall under that umbrella.
Sometimes life can be overwhelming and it can be hard to work through difficult times. This Virtual Calming Room was designed to assist in identifying different strategies for managing emotions.
Resource Links:
-Sounds and Music
-Visual Relaxation
-Guided Practice
-Colouring & Create
-Live Cameras
-Smart Phone Apps
Theis webinar was recorded on October 21, 2021 as part of the Lunch and Learn series. Participants will learn how to: Send back approved work and view comments in the creative toolsUse new Accessibility features to create Accessible contentUse Progress and Skills to support data informed instruction. Add voice recording or audio files to labels, shapes, images, and captions and lock the size of objects on the canvas