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21st Century Competencies Artifact 2013-14
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Subject: Cross-curricular Competencies of Thinking, Identity and Interdependence, Literacies, and Social Responsibility that will “strengthen and enrich students’ present learning and future lives.” Saskatchewan Education, 1988

Grade: Not applicable (special needs student)

Theme: Social Interactions

Competency Focus: Strategies that can help a student with ASD manage stress levels, and as a result, social interactions

Subject:
Special Education
Material Type:
Primary Source
Author:
Sun West School Division
Date Added:
09/07/2018
AFIRM Modules
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AFIRM Modules are designed to help you learn the step-by-step process of planning for, using, and monitoring an Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) with learners with autism from birth to 22 years of age. Supplemental materials and handouts are available for download.

Subject:
Special Education
Material Type:
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Autism Focused Intervention Resources & Modules (AFIRM)
Date Added:
08/22/2022
Accommodation Tools
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This is a collection of one page handouts on a variety of accommodation tools that can be used with students. These supporting documents were created at The Sun West Distance Learning Centre (DLC), but are intended for use by all teachers.

Subject:
Education
Special Education
Material Type:
Primary Source
Provider:
Distance Learning Centre
Author:
Arlene Low
Melissa Lander
Carole Butcher
Date Added:
12/17/2019
Assistive Technology
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Assistive Technology (AT) is any piece of technology that helps a student with or without a disability increase or maintain his or her level of functioning. Ex. Speech-to-text, text-to-speech and word prediction software.

Subject:
Educational Technology
Special Education
Material Type:
GAP 4
GAP 5
GAP 6
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Melissa Lander
Carole Butcher
Tammy German
Anne Sloboda
Marion Elliott
Date Added:
01/24/2023
At a Glance: Helping Kids With ADHD Manage Screen Time
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ADHD can affect how kids use technology. See how common problems like too much screen time or too little sleep tie in to ADHD symptoms—and get practical tips on how you can help.

Subject:
Special Education
Material Type:
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:
Understood.org
Provider Set:
The Understood Team
Date Added:
05/11/2018
The Brain on Reading
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This is a video recording of the lunch and learn session from October 21st, 2021 on how the brain learns to read. Session Description: Do you wonder how our students brains learn to read? Join this session for an overview of what the scientific field has discovered and uncovered about our brains and the process the brain goes through to learn how to read. This will have a significant impact on how we plan to teach reading, writing, and spelling in the future.

Subject:
Early Childhood Development
Elementary Education
Special Education
Material Type:
GAP 4
GAP 5
GAP 6
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Sandra Lutz
Date Added:
10/26/2021
Creatability - Experiments with Google for Accessibility
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"What is Creatability?

Creatability is a set of experiments made in collaboration with creators and allies in the accessibility community. They explore how creative tools – drawing, music, and more – can be made more accessible using web and AI technology. They’re just a start. We’re sharing open-source code and tutorials for others to make their own projects."

This short video will give you a good introduction here https://youtu.be/c5-bHJqtQS0 (copy and paste the url into your browser).

Subject:
Education
Special Education
Material Type:
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Google
Date Added:
01/15/2020
Dyslexia Awareness: In partnership with Made By Dyslexia & Microsoft
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This is a two-part course on dyslexia awareness and helping students reach their potential.

“1 in 5 children are made by dyslexia. It’s vital that we spot their strengths and support their challenges” - Kate Griggs, Founder of Made By Dyslexia.

In every classroom, in every school, around the world, there are 1 in 5 kids with exactly the thinking skills needed for the future of work. They are Made By Dyslexia.

But less than 20% are spotted at school. This two-part course created by Made By Dyslexia will change that – for good. It will give you easy to use strategies, used in the world’s leading specialist dyslexia schools, to help you spot, support and empower every dyslexic learner.

Now – more than ever – the world needs people who think differently. By taking our training today, you’ll change dyslexic children’s educational outcomes tomorrow. And be part of a powerful movement for change!

Subject:
Education
Special Education
Material Type:
Primary Source
Author:
Made By Dyslexia
Microsoft
Date Added:
10/27/2020
Dyslexia Decod-ED
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This is a three part series from Microsoft.  "Learning about dyslexia provides an opportunity for educators to empower every learnerExplore our Dyslexia DecodEd Webinar Series to learn how you can support students with dyslexia succeed."

Subject:
Special Education
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Primary Source
Author:
Melissa Lander
Date Added:
10/27/2020
Dyslexia Toolkit [Free Download]
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As awareness of dyslexia in early literacy grows, more and more questions have emerged about the learning challenge and how to better identify and support students at risk.

This new toolkit offers explicit answers for educators looking to learn about dyslexia and how to effectively screen for it to ensure students are supported as early and as effectively as possible.

With this toolkit, educators can better understand topics like:
- Dyslexia: What exactly is it?
- How to screen for at-risk students (and what actually works)
- Dyslexia legislation enacted in recent years

Sign up to receive your toolkit today!

Subject:
Education
Special Education
Material Type:
Primary Source
Reading
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Amplify Education
Date Added:
10/03/2022
Elkonin Boxes
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Elkonin boxes, or “sound boxes”, provide a visual representation of how words are segmented into individual letter-sounds. They help students see how a word is divided into its sound parts. This will help students with the alphabetic principle, decoding, spelling, and phoneme awareness.

Subject:
Elementary Education
Special Education
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Melissa Lander
Carole Butcher
Tammy German
Anne Sloboda
Marion Elliott
Date Added:
04/10/2019
Executive Functioning - Peg Dawson - Smart But Scattered Kids
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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/

Subject:
Information Processing
21st Century Competencies
Early Childhood Development
Educational Technology
Elementary Education
Higher Education
Special Education
Wellness
Material Type:
GAP 4
GAP 5
GAP 6
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Kira Toews
Peg Dawson
Date Added:
05/25/2023
For Learning and Attention Issues
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A useful website for outlining Learning and Attention Issues. Provides suggestions for implementing adaptations - aimed towards parents but also very useful for classroom applications.

Parents want the best for their children. We do, too. For the first time ever, 15 nonprofit organizations have joined forces to support parents of the one in five children with learning and attention issues throughout their journey.

With the right support, parents can help children unlock their strengths and reach their full potential. With state-of-the-art technology, personalized resources, free daily access to experts, a secure online community, practical tips and more, Understood aims to be that support.

Subject:
Special Education
Material Type:
Reading
Author:
understood.org
Date Added:
11/26/2018
Free Sign Language Courses
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Looking for some basic courses in conversational American Sign Language? Check out these self-paced free courses developed by the Oklahoma School for the Deaf, taught by their ASL Specialist.

Courses being offered are:
American Sign Language I
American Sign Language II

Subject:
Education
Special Education
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Module
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Oklahoma School for the Deaf
OSD
Date Added:
03/07/2023