Resources, tips, and materials to help you, help children with autism
This one page keep sheet can be used as an ELL or Gen Ed accommodation for sorting through the difficult vocabulary associated with transformations. ...
I'll take a course in pizza, please.
Resources, tips, and materials to help you, help children with autism
I'm super excited to be linking up for the Bright Idea Blogger Hop! This hop is going to be an awesome way for you find all kinds of bright ideas for you to use in your classroom! As an intervention teacher, I've found that it can be super hard to find the time to meet and discuss students' progress with the gen ed teachers. I wanted the gen ed teachers to be able to know what skills I was working on and the progress of their students at any time even though they may not be able to actually meet with me very easily. I keep all of my data in a 3-ring binder for each group. I keep a sort of lesson plan that lets the teachers know what skills I was working on that day. And it helps me keep track of which students attend intervention group. For each student in my reading groups, I take a weekly fluency check and a cold read comprehension check. I keep the original fluency and comprehension quiz in the binder. In front of those, I keep a fluency graph. I LOVE graphs. They can really can give you that visual about a student's progress. Although this student is reading below grade level, she's really improving on her fluency! Graphs can also really let you see when students just aren't making progress like this student. This is one that I'm super worried about. Even though he's in my most intense, smallest group, he's just not coming along like I think he should be. :( I also keep this form at the front of the binder for each group. This gives the teachers a quick snapshot of how everyone in the group is doing. To keep track of their weekly comprehension check, I use this simple form. As you can tell, comprehension can be really tough. I also have a math group that I see daily. On Fridays, I give them a quick quiz that covers several skills. By looking at their data like this, I can quickly tell which skills I need to keep remediating and which skills they seem to get. Here's a really good week! Usually, most of my students miss the word problem. So there you go! It may seem daunting to keep data, but honestly, it's really quick. Once you get the forms set up and your binders organized, it takes no time to add the new information. Now you should definitely hop on over to Teachable Moments to find out all about how she used Dollar Stores finds in her classroom. And can I just add that it's really unfair there is no Dollar Store in Hawaii! You can find her post {here}.
Gen eds have a bad rap - and for mostly good reason - but there are some serious benefits. Here's why you should take your gen ed courses seriously.
From Littles to Teens from SDC to Gen ED...ALL students should learn the significance of thinking with their eyes. This eye-appealing 8 1/2 X 11 visual is a great start to a lesson on thinking with your eyes. ...
Resources, tips, and materials to help you, help children with autism
Each generation thinks their decade is the best. Millennials would say that it's the '90s. For Gen Z — the 2000s. And the often-overlooked Gen Xers will always love the '80s. In the end, it's all about the time when you were a kid, right? Big enough to go to your friend's house by yourself, but young enough to not have to worry about important adult stuff.
Modifying novels and ELA work for ESL students
I'll take a course in pizza, please.
This is a very controversial quiz. Just saying! 👀
This is a comprehensive sample behavior intervention plan that I used while in grad school. Insert your own students' names and edit information as needed. I hope that you find this useful!
For many of those who grew up on the internet, the world wide web offered access to a community that may not have been reachable offline. On Tumblr, where users are twice as likely to be lesbian, g…
Congratulations to PediaStaff columnist Loren Shlaes, OTR/L (who blogs at PediatricOT) for the first installment of her six piece article, ‘ Advice from the OT. Why It’s so Hard for Children to Sit Still and What You Can do About it!,’ which appeared today on the Minds in Bloom website/blog. This excellent general education teacher […]
(This post is part of our Fair is Not Always Equal…Now What? blog series.) As many of our posts have emphasized this year, designing your lessons using the UDL framework goes a long way toward meeting each of your students’ specific learning needs. But in a diverse, inclusive classroom, some students will also need […]
