Friday, April 26, 2013

Severe K-6

Math Lessons: http://www.updc.org/counting-objects/ & Touch Math
           The website is the Utah Personnel Development Center. It is a program for teaching one-to-one correspondence and counting objects in random order. The site has four different unit videos for examples. 
           Touch Math is a methodology that can be tremendously helpful for some children.  It reaches children who need kinesthetic learning techniques and visual cues when counting. This program will eventually be faded out for children and not every child will grasp onto this concept.  But for some children, Touch Math really grabs their attention and teaches strategies for counting. 

Prompting Hierarchies: http://instructionalprogramming.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/7/3/13733774/prompting_hierchies.pdf

        This PDF is a great resource to print off and laminate for a reference. Prompting hierarchies provide a systematic method of assisting students to learn and use new skills, as well as, a framework for teachers and TAs to communicate about a student’‛s learning and level of independence.

Step-by-Step IEP and IP Planning: http://instructionalprogramming.weebly.com/
          This blog was created by one of my professors at Westminster College. This site has helped me go through my planning and provided templates for previous Instructional Planning.  Great snap shot for teachers and TA's.

Looking Up On Down15 minute movie clip
        I was introduced to this movie from a friend of mine and I fell in love with it.  Professor Feuerstein founded the institute in 1965 in Jerusalem working with families and children with Down Syndrome. "Prof. Feuerstein’s main thesis is that human intelligence is not a fixed entity, but rather that human beings of any age, culture, or economic conditions have an inherent and unpredictable propensity to improve their cognitive abilities regardless of age, status, cultural background, or even developmental disabilities. Around this thesis he developed a unique educational method, directly flowing from the theory that enables the development of learning aptitude and the enhancement of intelligence." --It's worth a look! Institute Website 






Monday, April 22, 2013

Assessments

Ethics and Considerations
Testing Ethics Policy 
This site specifically tells teachers what is good and legal practice for different types of testing.  This pdf would also benefit parents to know what is legally expected of the state for testing information.

Accommodations
Accommodations and Modifications & NCEO
The Organized Special Education Teacher is a great site that provides ideas for accommodations during testing.  The whole blog is for every teacher, home school- to- religious teaching. NCEO is from 2001 but provides information on accommodations and controversies of the different types of accommodations. 

Dynamic Learning Maps
Dynamic Learning Maps
The new DLM alternate assessment system will let students with significant cognitive disabilities show what they know in ways that traditional multiple-choice tests cannot. This new testing will be implemented in 2014 in 14 different states.  Special Educators will be using the new form of assessment- now you can brush up on new facts! 

Templates of Summary Reports
Sample 1  &  Progress monitoring templates 
Using the scores from an assessment (let's say the WJ III) you can then progress monitor.  This way, a teacher can actually keep data and have more accurate data.