...sort of. There's a small catch.
It's actually an "earned" freebie because I
could REALLY use some help!
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I'm giving a PD next week that I'm really excited about!
I'm providing basic intervention strategies for working with specific disabilities that we will be seeing this upcoming year. The categories are ADHD, SLD, SPL (articulation, receptive, and expressive), Emotional Disability, Developmental Disability, and Autism. We also have students who receive OT, PT, and Speech.
These students already have IEPs with specific accommodations/modifications, so I want to provide a more basic "toolbox" that, ideally, general educators will find useful for ANY students. I already have TONS of research-based resources that I personally just read for fun, however I realize not many of us are slightly obsessed have extra time on our hands.
So...I'm asking for some help in how I can help you!
What would you like from a special educator that would help you reach every learner in your classroom AND be easy to use? Would you like information presented in a checklist? Chart? Table with hyperlinks? What would be your dream resource? I will post whatever I come up with as a freebie on my blog by next Wednesday!
THANKS in advance!
That is awesome that you're presenting this to the regular ed teachers! I hope they find it helpful and actually use it:) As a special ed teacher I use a lot of charts - tracking goals and behavior mostly. I think checklists can be helpful. I have often thought of creating flow charts (if this happens do this, if that doesn't work do this) but I've never actually done it. I know there are so many great ideas for accommodations I feel like I reread the same one and don't even remember it. So that is another idea, a long list of accommodations, maybe you could even have a contest to see which teacher uses the biggest variety of accommodations in a month? haha, I don't know, but I'd sure love to see whatever you come up with!
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What great ideas - thank you! The flow chart idea is really intriguing...
ReplyDeleteI asked a general educator (and plan to ask more) what they would like to see & one teacher said she'd love a workshop-style where there were scenarios & then suggested accommodations. Time constraint is going to be my biggest issue. I may have a little interactive portion as a teaser & THEN pass out the handout with the list of ideas.
Thanks again for helping me brainstorm! I will post the result by next week!
The integrated co-teaching classrooms in my building have weekly team meetings & invite speech and OT, PT. We talk about what works/doesn't work, the specific needs of a student, etc. The related service providers are not always able to attend, but I will ask them ahead for suggestions. Visual timers are also very beneficial for all students, individual schedules, building in sensory breaks, etc. It's also for the classroom teacher to know that transitions are difficult for many students and that some students really need to be given the time to complete a task before moving on.
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