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drewevanaho

Speech Therapy: What It Is, How It Works & Why You May Need Therapy - 2 views

  • Speech therapy is the assessment and treatment of communication problems and speech disorders.
  • performed by speech-language pathologists (SLPs),
  • used to improve communication.
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  • articulation therapy, language intervention activities, and others depending on the type of speech or language disorder.
  • develop in childhood
  • n adults caused by an injury or illness, such as stroke or brain injury.
  • For your child
  • problem solving, memory, and organization, and other activities geared at improving cognitive communicationconversational tactics to improve social communicationbreathing exercises for resonanceexercises to strengthen oral muscles
  • nteract through talking and playing, and using books, pictures other objects as part of language intervention to help stimulate language developmentmodel correct sounds and syllables for a child during age-appropriate play to teach the child how to make certain soundsprovide strategies and homework for the child and parent or caregiver on how to do speech therapy at home
  • peech therapy exercises for adults can help you with speech, language, and cognitive communication.
  • During speech therapy for children, the SLP may:
    • Kelly Nuthak
       
      speech disorders that can be treated with speech therapy.
  • How long do you need speech therapy?
  • How successful is speech therapy?
  • Speech therapy is the assessment and treatment of communication problems and speech disorders. It is performed by speech-language pathologists (SLPs), which are often referred to as speech therapists.
    • drewevanaho
       
      ST and SLP definition
madisonryb

Building Community - Centre for Teaching and Learning - Western University - 0 views

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    A better, detailed description of what community is and how to improve community building.
chlohawk

How to Improve Distance Learning for Students With IEPs | Edutopia - 0 views

  • The survey results can be broken down into three overarching themes: parent engagement along with synchronous and asynchronous strategies. The responses uncovered the following best practices to address the needs of students with learning differences.
  • Initial remote IEP meeting:
  • Weekly check-ins:
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  • Goal setting: P
  • Service delivery participation:
  • “Parents seem to be more invested as they take part in their child’s programming,”
  • Parents can see the skills their children are working on and can carry them over more effectively.”
  • increasing engagement during live, virtual, synchronous meetings.
  • IEP goals and objectives may not be the student’s preferred virtual learning activity.
  • Virtual book clubs:
  • Start virtual meetings with a fun, engaging activity:
  • Visuals, routines, schedules:
  • I create individualized weekly schedules for my students,
  • ncluded in these schedules are their assignments and expectations with links to documents, websites, or other materials in a centrally located document. These schedules assist the students and caregivers with pacing, planning, organization, and task completion, among other functional skills.”
  • Movement breaks:
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    Having parents involved, synchronous, and asynchronous strategies can help IEP students during distance learning
Siri Anderson

'Increase Teachers of Color Act of 2021' clears education committee on party-line vote ... - 0 views

  • requiring districts to modify their World’s Best Workforce strategic plans to include access for all learners to an ethnic studies curriculum using culturally responsive methodologies;
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    MN legislation to support improving the diversification of the teaching workforce! Share with your friends! Ask your institution what opportunities there are to support your progress if you are BIPOC
clwisniewski

Gender and Racially Equitable STEM Teaching Strategies - Home - 1 views

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    This is a resource for teachers wanting to improve their efficacy with students historically marginalized from STEM education and career pathways. Lots of great ideas for making learning relevant and engaging to diverse student populations. Siri Anderson designed it with Barb Billington from the University of MN. Spread the power of pedagogy!
Kelly Nuthak

Top 10 questions teachers are asked at job interviews | Career advice | The Guardian - 0 views

  • Top 10 questions
  • If I walked into your classroom during an outstanding lesson, what would I see and hear?
  • animated discussions, students clearly making progress as evidenced in oral and written contributions. High quality visual displays of students' work showing progress. High levels of engagement. Behaviour that supports learning."
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  • Can you tell me about a successful behaviour management strategy you have used in the past that helped engage a pupil or group of pupils?
  • expect to hear things like: to improve skills and independent learning; to encourage team work; to gain a qualification; for enjoyment (very important, rarely mentioned); to enhance other subjects; to develop literacy, numeracy and ICT skills; to improve career prospects; self discipline; memory development; to encourage life-long learning in that subject.
  • Why do we teach x in schools?
  • If you overheard some colleagues talking about you, what would they say?
  • Why do you want to work in special education?
  • Why do you want to work in this school?
  • We want to see clear indications that candidates have done background work about our school and can talk about why the way we work appeals to them. We'd always want candidates to have visited the school so they should be able to flesh this out with specific examples of what they thought based on their visit.
  • A question that is specific to the candidate's letter of application
  • What are the key qualities and skills that students look for in teachers?
  • "Liking young people. Fairness. Consistency. Sense of humour. Passion for their subject. Good at explaining new concepts/ideas. Able to make the topic or subject relevant. Able to make everyone feel comfortable and confident about contributing."
  • Evaluate your lesson
  • If we decided not to appoint you, what would we be missing out on?
nikkilh

Southeast Comprehensive Center Information Request.pdf - 0 views

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  • Best Practices, Strategies, and Recommendations for Improving School Climate and Culture
  • ED’s guidance is developed to assist stakeholders with effectively selecting and implementing supports that work to improve outcomes for children.
  • In addition to the four levels of evidence for choosing interventions, the ED guidance document emphasizes that “ways to strengthen the effectiveness of ESEA investments include identifying local needs, selecting evidence-based interventions that SEAs, LEAs, and schools have the capacity to implement, planning for and then supporting the intervention, and examining and reflecting upon how the intervention is working,” as illustrated in the figure from the guidance document (U.S. Department of Education, 2016, p. 3).
jkolodji

School Improvement Status and Outcomes for Students with Disabilities Study (SWD) - 1 views

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    "Outcomes for Students with Disabilities (SWD) "
Katelyn Karsnia

What is RTI | Three Tiers of RTI | Navigating Education - 0 views

  • RTI consists of three tiers, or levels of academic support, which help teachers and schools better identify, target, and support, both students and their individual skill deficits.
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      What RTI does to help students in school
  • Tier 1 consists of universal instruction for all students,
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      What Teir 1 = universal instruction for all students
  • ier 2 consists of targeted intervention for specific groups of students
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      Teir 2 = Targeted intervention groups for specific students
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  • between 6% and 15% of students are identified as needing additional support in specific academic domains (reading, writing, math, language, and/or behavior), beyond the standard whole group instruction and support from the classroom teacher.
  • ier 2 interventions can take as long as eight weeks before academic improvement is noticeable
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      How long it could see changes in students' academic ability with interventions
  • Tier 3 consists of highly targeted individualized and intensive interventions, and typically consists of between 1% and 5% of students.
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      Tier 3 = Highly targeted individuals and intensive interventions
  • RTI Tiers Types of Interventions % of Students Expectations Tier 1 Universal instruction for all students >=80% Children may experience academic challenges or frustration at times, but they can quickly overcome such difficulties with little impact to their overall academic performance. Tier 2 Targeted intervention for specific groups of students 6% – 15% It can take as long as eight weeks before academic improvement is noticeable, and children/students may need to remain at Tier 2 for a bit of time to increase or maintain their growth. Tier 3 Highly targeted individualized and intensive interventions 1% – 5% The specific nature of a child’s difficulty must be more closely examined, which is typically done through formal educational/academic evaluations.
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      Statistics about the RTI three tiers
  • Response to Intervention, or RTI, is an approach used throughout the country to meet the ever-changing academic needs of children/students
Siri Anderson

YouTube - How Google Apps is Used in Schools (IS 339) - 0 views

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      This video has some very interesitng comments about changes in individual development and identify. What do you think?
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    What do you think? Laptops and google as a panacea for failing schools?
Siri Anderson

Obama: D.C. schools don't measure up to his daughters' private school - 1 views

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    Obama on education.
Siri Anderson

The Answer Sheet - What 'Superman' got wrong, point by point - 0 views

  • According to the Department of Education, the country will need 1.6 million new teachers in the next five years. Retention of talented teachers is one key. Good teaching is about making connections to students, about connecting what they learn to the world in which they live, and this only happens if teachers have history and roots in the communities where they teach
  • The film-makers betray a lack of understanding of how people actually learn, the active and engaged participation of students in the learning process. They ignore the social construction of knowledge, the difference between deep learning and rote memorization.
  • Waiting for Superman has ignored deep historical and systemic problems in education such as segregation, property-tax based funding formulas, centralized textbook production, lack of local autonomy and shared governance, de-professionalization, inadequate special education supports, differential discipline patterns, and the list goes on and on.
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    Wendy thanks for this link on Facebook. I'm going to see it tonight! I look forward to debate on this topic in the weeks ahead.
Siri Anderson

Visualizing School Equity | Learning for Justice - 0 views

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      This connects to 7I. Where the teacher is supporting and expanding expression through speaking, writing, or other media. This is happening through connections and building relationships with other schools in different districts and creating a portfolios about the facilities at the schools. Once these portfolios are exchanged they will then use the insights to create their own Student Bill of Rights. This will allow students another perspective to look at, think about, and reflect on.
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      Yes this is 7I
  • Form a partnership with a teacher in another district. You will ask your students to assemble a portfolio documenting the facilities at their school (through lists, narratives or photos); your partner teacher will ask her/his students to do the same. Classes can exchange portfolios. Each class can use the insights from the exchange to draft their own Student Bill of Rights. 
  • 3. Ask to students to present their posters to the entire class. 
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      This connects to 3G where we are using student's thinking and experiences as a resources in planning instructional activities by encouraging discussion, listening and responding to group interaction, and eliciting oral, written and other samples of student thinking. This will allow students to look at public information on the per-student funding in the best and least funded schools. They will then present their findings to their peers while listening to others findings and thoughts.
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  • 4. Circle back to the “Crossing the Gap” story by ask students to vote on the following proposition: An explicit right to equal per-student funding should be added to the Illinois Council of Students' Bill of Rights. Once your students have voted “yes” or “no” to the proposition, ask each group to present their decision, and three reasons supporting it, to the class as a whole. 
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      This connects to 4E where we understand how a students learning is influenced by individual experiencs, talents, and prior learning, as well as language, culture, family, and community values. This will allow students to look at their findings and how they think they have affected their choices. This will also allow students culture, family, and community values to play a part in their decision making. School and education is very important to different cultures, individual families, and communities. This will affect how students vote. This will also tap into 3G by encouraging discussion and support of the way they have voted.
  • Then have students find the per-student funding levels (listed in dollar amounts) for the best-funded district, least-funded district, and their own district.
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      This connects to students individual experiences with their own schools funding to see how it affects them,. This will allow them to connect to and build off this scaffolding.
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      This connects to 4E.
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      OK yes
  • Have students create a chart illustrating the funding gap between the best-funded and least-funded districts in the state, along with the per-student funding for their district.
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      This connects to 7I. Where students will create other media in the form of a chart to expand their learning to see the gap in funding between their school, the best funded school, and the least funded school.
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      yes
  • Have students brainstorm a list of useful educational items that could be purchased with the funding gap money for the least-funded district and/or their own district.
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      This connects to 3G. Students are actively engaging in inquiry by looking at the gap and figuring what they think could be funded in the least funded school. Things that they may use or see as beneficial in their own school.
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      The benefit in 3G is to the teacher, when we elicit student thinking it helps us tailor instruction to meet their needs. The standards are teacher standards, not student standards.
  • • learn about inequities in the system and begin to question why those inequities exist by examining the funding gap in their own state.
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      This connects to 3g. Students will be using their experiences in their school to think about why this funding gap exists . They will then brainstorm ways that they money could benefit the least funded school through oral and written activities.
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      I don't see how looking at experiences in their own education will help students understand "why" funding gaps exist.
  • • A large portion of public school funding comes from local property taxes. The funding gap exists when higher tax revenues mean much more school funding is available to wealthy communities than to poor communities.
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      This could connect to 7I by allowing students to consider if this is fair and how we can look into and prevent this gap in funding. Do they think that this is fair, with wealthy communities paying a higher tax revenue? How do they think they could solve this.
    • Siri Anderson
       
      Standard 7I is about eliciting student communication in written or other forms. I don't see how this demonstrates that.
sadielaurenn

Inclusive teaching strategies | Center for Teaching and Learning - 0 views

  • Post information in a clear and accessible way about how students can do well, and if needed, what they can do to improve their performance. Grading rubrics can be an efficient way to inform students about how you assess their work and how to meet expectations for success.
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      Rubrics were/are very helpful to me, as a student!
emerickjudy

Culturally Responsive Teaching - 1 views

  • concerns that, without the proper guidance, education leaders and individual educators can adopt simplistic views of what it means to teach in culturally responsive ways
  • key scholars and teacher educators Gloria Ladson-Billings, Geneva Gay, and Django Paris
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      How do educators know if students are benefitting from the CRP or CRT approaches utilized in the classroom?
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  • culturally relevant pedagogy to describe a form of teaching that calls for engaging learners whose experiences and cultures are traditionally excluded from mainstream settings
  • First, teaching must yield academic success. Second, teaching must help students develop positive ethnic and cultural identities while simultaneously helping them achieve academically. Third, teaching must support students’ ability “to recognize, understand, and critique current and social inequalities.”
  • Geneva Gay
  • culturally responsive teaching to define an approach that emphasizes “using the cultural knowledge, prior experiences, frames of reference, and performance styles of ethnically diverse students to make learning encounters more relevant to and effective for them.”
  • positive changes on multiple levels, including instructional techniques, instructional materials, student-teacher relationships, classroom climate, and self-awareness to improve learning for students.
  • Like Ladson-Billings, Gay also places a strong emphasis on providing opportunities for students to think critically about inequities in their own or their peers’ experience.
  • Django Paris
  • culturally sustaining pedagogy, an approach that takes into account the many ways learners' identity and culture evolve
juliajohnson00

Storytelling in the Social Studies Classroom | Read Write Think - 1 views

  • tell their own stories and explore the stories of other Americans
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      Standard 3G: use a student's thinking and experiences as a resource in planning instructional activities by encouraging discussion, listening, and responding to group interaction, and eliciting oral, written, and other samples of student thinking. Standard 7I - support and expand learner expression in speaking, writing, and other media
  • A picture can be worth a thousand words, especially when students use this tool to draw them themselves!
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      Standard 7I: support and expand learner expression in speaking, writing, and other media.
  • Engaging students in storytelling activities about themselves, their families, and other Americans is an effective way to pique their interest in social studies.
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      Standard 4E - understand how a student's learning is influenced by individual experiences, talents, and prior learning, as well as language, culture, family, and community values.
chlohawk

With Boys in Mind / Teaching to the Minds of Boys - ASCD - 1 views

  • who's perpetually in motion,
  • ho stares into space,
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  • turns in rushed and sloppy work and receives failing grades.
  • By introducing more boy-friendly teaching strategies in the classroom, the school was able to close the gender gap in just one year.
  • he now understands how relevant this focus on action and heroism is to males, and she sees that letting boys write on these topics has improved their papers.
  • he task-oriented discussion and interaction, the physical movement, and the orientation in space access the boys' neurological strengths, keeping them energized and attentive.
  • Realizing the need for nonverbal planning tools, especially in males, to help bridge the gap between what students are thinking and what they're able to put down on paper, Mrs. Johnston now asks Timothy and his classmates to create storyboards, a series of pictures with or without words that graphically depict a story line. T
  • n her 2nd grade classroom, most of the boys read and write about such topics as NASCAR racing, atomic bombs, and football or about such situations as a parrot biting a dad through the lip. Many of the girls write about best friends, books, mermaids, and unicorns.
  • eachers tended to view the natural assets that boys bring to learning—impulsivity, single-task focus, spatial-kinesthetic learning, and physical aggression—as problems. By altering strategies to accommodate these more typically male assets, Douglass helped its students succeed, as the following vignettes illustrate.
  • One of the primary reasons that some boys getDs and Fs in school is their inattention to homework.
  • parents sign homework assignments.
  • One of the innovations that teachers can use in targeted ways in coeducational classes is single-gender grouping.
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      How and when can I implement one of these strategies in the first week of school with my boy learners?
  • Quite often, boys do their best work when teachers establish authentic purpose and meaningful, real-life connections.
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    Creating a boy-friendly classroom, increasing experiential and kinesthetic learning opportunities, supporting literacy through visual-spatial representations and more strategies can support our boy learners.
Bill Olson

Critical pedagogy: schools must equip students to challenge the status quo | Teacher Ne... - 0 views

  • The pedagogy popularised by E.D.Hirsch, and recently promoted by the likes of Civitas, reduces teaching into nothing more than a bleak transmission model of learning.
  • "cultural literacy".
  • But Hirsch's "cultural literacy" is a hegemonic vision produced for and by the white middle class to help maintain the social and economic status quo.
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  • Young people who enter the educational system and don't conform to this vision are immediately disadvantaged by virtue of their race, income or chromosomes.
  • Moreover, teaching a prescribed "core knowledge" instills a culture of conformity and an insipid, passive absorption of carefully selected knowledge among young people.
  • The narcissistic notion that we can help underprivileged students by providing them with teachers who are privileged young graduates from elite institutions is a mistake.
  • Teachers can't ignore the contexts, culture, histories and meanings that students bring to their school.
  • Working class students and other minority groups need an education that prepares them with the knowledge of identifying the problems and conflicts in their life and the skills to act on that knowledge so they can improve their current situations.
  • School leaders have a duty to promote learning that encourage students to question rather than forcing teachers to lead drill-oriented, stimulus-and-response methodologies.
  • Students need the freedom and encouragement to determine and discover who they are and to understand that the system shouldn't define them – but rather give them the skills, knowledge and beliefs to understand that they can set the agenda.
  • The philosophy was first described by Paulo Freire and has since been developed by the likes of Henry Giroux, Peter McLaren and Roger Simon. Critical pedagogy isn't a prescriptive set of practices – it's a continuous moral project that enables young people to develop a social awareness of freedom. This pedagogy connects classroom learning with the experiences, histories and resources that every student brings to their school. It allows students to understand that with knowledge comes power; the power that can enable young people to do something differently in their moment in time and take positive and constructive action.
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    This article is an opinion piece about why critical pedagogy is important to teach to students. What do you think the best way to support your underprivileged students is?
drewevanaho

Multiple sclerosis - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic - 0 views

  • Multiple sclerosis (
  • disabling disease of the brain and spinal cord (central nervous system).
  • can cause permanent damage or deterioration of the nerves.
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  • ose the ability to walk independently or at all, while others may experience long periods of remission without any new symptoms.
  • no cure for multiple sclerosis
  • Numbness or weakness in one or more limbs that typically occurs on one side of your body at a time, or your legs and trunk Electric-shock sensations that occur with certain neck movements, especially bending the neck forward (Lhermitte sign) Tremor, lack of coordination or unsteady gait
  • Partial or complete loss of vision, usually in one eye at a time, often with pain during eye movement Prolonged double vision Blurry vision
  • lurred speech Fatigue Dizziness Tingling or pain in parts of your body Problems with sexual, bowel and bladder function
  • xperience periods of new symptoms or relapses that develop over days or weeks and usually improve partially or completely.
  • elapses are followed by quiet periods of disease remission that can last months or even years.
  • 50% of those with relapsing-remitting MS eventually develop a steady progression of symptoms, with or without periods of remission, within 10 to 20 years from disease onset
  • autoimmune disease in which the body's immune system attacks its own tissues.
  • Certain infections
  • Climate
  • Vitamin D
  • Certain autoimmune diseases
  • Smoking
  • Muscle stiffness or spasms Paralysis, typically in the legs Problems with bladder, bowel or sexual function Mental changes, such as forgetfulness or mood swings Depression Epilepsy
  • Numbness or weakness in one or more limbs that typically occurs on one side of your body at a time, or your legs and trunk Electric-shock sensations that occur with certain neck movements, especially bending the neck forward (Lhermitte sign) Tremor, lack of coordination or unsteady gait
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      Symptoms of MS
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    Clinical view of MS
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