This guide will help you and your students to get started using the high quality programs available for free from Everfi.
In over 30 years of clinical practice, Drs. Peg Dawson and Richard Guare have worked with thousands of children who struggle at home and in school. At the center of their struggles are weak executive skills, and through our writing and now this website, we spotlight these skills that are critical for school and life success.
We hope that by sharing what we have learned, we can help parents, teachers, and therapists to better understand the role executive skills play in healthy development and to identify tools and strategies they can use to assist “smart but scattered” kids become successful problem solvers and self-reliant adults.
Dr. Dawson offers a number of workshop options. In addition to the ones described below, she is happy to work with school districts to design trainings that meet their specific needs. These may include:
- workshops directed at regular education teachers to provide an overview of what executive skills are, how brain development governs executive skill development, what are developmentally appropriate expectations for executive skills at different grade levels, and classroom-based strategies to support executive skill development.
- workshops for special educators (including teachers, school psychologists, speech pathologists, occupational therapists, and behavior specialists) to learn how to design interventions both to limit the negative impact of weak executive skills and to help students learn effective coping strategies.
- consultation services to help school districts implement school-wide approaches targeting specific executive skill challenges. We have not found “off the shelf” curricula to be particularly effective for schools that want to do something more comprehensive to address executive skills. Rather, helping schools identify the specific challenges they want to address and to work with them to design an approach that fits the unique needs of the school or district appears to be a more effective approach.
- evening presentations for parents. These are offered to school districts within driving distance of Portsmouth, New Hampshire as a stand-alone offering. When a school district hires Dr. Dawson to do a full-day training with professionals, she is happy to provide a 1l5-2 hour presentation for parents at no additional cost.
(Peg has hosted PD in Saskatchewan before and would likely come back in the future) Has been initiated in the past from this source: http://www.jackhirose.com/
You've heard of choice boards, but explore boards are different, and I really think you'll want to give them a try!
Explore Boards are great to introduce a new unit of study to develop background knowledge and vocabulary. They can also be used for studying, becoming an expert in an area to share back (like a jigsaw), support inquiry or research projects, provide context, etc.!
These boards promote personalized learning - student voice and choice as well as autonomy. You can let the students free for 20-30 minutes to explore the options as they see fit, or assign a few options to a group to share back, and students can refer back to these Explore Boards during the entire unit to build a deeper understanding. The only limit on how to use these boards is your imagination!
(But don't worry, this article provides many examples!)
Example Explore Boards are included for: The Outsiders, Risk & Exploration, Global Issues, Ben Franklin, Tomorrow (a sequel to Annie)
MAKE CURRICULUM COME ALIVE
DESIGN IN AUGMENTED REALITY AND SHARE YOUR CREATIONS.
You are able to sign up for a free teacher account (with limited use) but there are also full accounts available for a cost (9.99 a month or 2-3 dollars a student depending on how you sign up).
In this interactive map activity, students will explore Canada's geography. Data layers include Canada's climate, Canada's Ecology (Ecozones and Ecoregions), Canada's landforms and Population Density 2016. Students will also explore the federal elections from 2000-2019.
Explore this Story Map to learn about Canada's Forests, Freshwater, Oil & Gas, Mineral and Mining natural resources. As you go through the story map, stop to consider the questions posed throughout.
The Sun West Student Email system is a valuable tool for communication for students, parents and teachers. Students can use this system to send assignments back and forth between school and home. It is a safe, controlled communication environment.
Learning Activity 1: Watch the 45 minute video Facebook Obsession. During viewing, record benefits and potential concerns raised during the documentary.
Learning Activity 2: Is Facebook beneficial or harmful in the school setting? … in the work world?
Brought to you by Common Sense Media and Wide Open School, this site offers creative ideas/free activities to move, learn, relax, and connect as a family.
Find weekly activities, games, worksheets and videos in lots of areas: reading and writing, math, social studies, science, offline friendly, emotional well-being, arts/music/DIY, fitness, digital citizenship, life skills, English-Language Learners, virtual field trips, videos and events.
Brought to you by Common Sense Media and Wide Open School, this site offers creative ideas/free activities to move, learn, relax, and connect as a family.
Find weekly activities, games, worksheets and videos in lots of areas: reading and writing, math, social studies, science, offline friendly, emotional well-being, arts/music/DIY, fitness, digital citizenship, life skills, English-Language Learners, virtual field trips, videos and events.
Brought to you by Common Sense Media and Wide Open School, this site offers creative ideas/free activities to move, learn, relax, and connect as a family.
Find weekly activities, games, worksheets and videos in lots of areas: reading and writing, math, social studies, science, offline friendly, emotional well-being, arts/music/DIY, fitness, digital citizenship, life skills, English-Language Learners, virtual field trips, videos and events.
Brought to you by Common Sense Media and Wide Open School, this site offers creative ideas/free activities to move, learn, relax, and connect as a family.
Find weekly activities, games, worksheets and videos in lots of areas: reading and writing, math, social studies, science, offline friendly, emotional well-being, arts/music/DIY, fitness, digital citizenship, life skills, English-Language Learners, virtual field trips, videos and events.
Brought to you by Common Sense Media and Wide Open School, this site offers creative ideas/free activities to move, learn, relax, and connect as a family.
Find tons of activities, games, worksheets and videos in lots of areas: reading and writing, math, social studies, science, offline friendly, emotional well-being, arts/music/DIY, fitness, digital citizenship, life skills, English-Language Learners, virtual field trips, videos and events.
Financial literacy is an important aspect of everyday life. EVERFI’s Financial Literacy online resource engages users through video, animations and interactive activities to bring complex financial concepts to life, empowering students to better manage their personal finances. The program includes 9 modules on a variety of topics, including Savings, Banking, Credit Cards & Interest Rates, Credit Scores, Financing Higher Education, Renting vs. Owning, Taxes & Insurance, Consumer Protection, and Investing, giving students the tools they’ll need to successfully manage their financial future.
This Course Covers
EVERFI Financial Literacy
Savings
Credit Scores & Reports
Funding Higher Education
Renting vs Owning
Insurance & Taxes
Consumer Protection
Investing
Banking Basics
This tutorial explains how to find Financial Literacy resources using a hub, collection and Sask DLC PAA middle years modules.
This resource explores four ways to find or create free or Creative Commons images to use for your OER/Resource Bank resources (or in general).Specific sites for free imagesGoogle searchAI Snipping Tool
This tutorial will show you how to find images with the proper permissions to use (free, creative commons) for your resources.
This includes: specific websites, Google searches, snipping tool & generating AI images.
"APERÇU
Construisez une fleur mécanique qui s'ouvre lorsqu'il y a de la lumière. Cette fleur utilise quelques mouvements mécaniques intéressants dont un câble push-pull pour convertir le mouvement de rotation en un mouvement linéaire pour une tige flexible. Ensuite, le mouvement est reconverti en points de pivotement rotatifs pour ouvrir et fermer les pédales. L'utilisation des clips de reliure signifie également que vous êtes libre de créer vos propres pétales de fleurs.
COMPÉTENCES + OBJECTIFS
Construction
Construire le projet en suivant les instructions d'assemblage
Menuiserie
Principes de base de la menuiserie et quincaillerie
Art + Design
Créer et concevoir vos propres pétales de fleurs
Codage"
"Cette construction est utile de deux manières : propulser des objets et tambouriner sur des surfaces. Le concept global vise à augmenter l'inertie du servo en faisant rapidement claquer le collier de serrage pour faire pivoter le bras. La mécanique de cette construction est modelée d'après une pédale utilisée dans une batterie.
L'aspect de propulsion est simplement amusant. Lancez des pièces de monnaie, des boutons et des balles de ping-pong. Lors de l'utilisation de la fonction d'enregistrement d'animation de l'Animate Shield, des rythmes peuvent être enregistrés et bouclés, y compris le réglage de la vitesse.
COMPÉTENCES + OBJECTIFS
Construction
-Construire le projet en suivant les instructions d'assemblage
Musique
-Animer un rythme
Menuiserie
-Principes de base de la menuiserie et quincaillerie
Codage
-Apprendre à utiliser des retards dans le code pour contrôler le timing du mouvement
& Plus !
** Des kits sont disponibles à l'achat sur makestuffmove.com **"
Flippity easily turns any Google spreadsheet into flash cards, a badge creator, a spelling quiz, a memory game, a word search, random name generator, scavenger hunt, board game, manipulatives, matching game, timeline, BINGO, leader board, crossword puzzle, word scramble, word cloud, MadLibs, self assessment and more. Teachers can use Flippity for a variety of purposes: to present to the class, to assess individual students, or to have students make their own creations.