Welcome to the Virtual Resource Classroom

1. Welcome to the Virtual Resource Classroom Jennifer Chwialkowski and Maria Carr

2. Overview of Special Education Services in Online Learning • The provision of FAPE should be the primary consideration when deciding whether a student’s needs can be met in a virtual environment. • Virtual education does not always meet the needs of each student and the individual needs must be considered. • Questions to ask when considering whether FAPE could be provided via this method: • Can student’s specific needs and disability be supported? Areas to consider are student’s age, maturity, attention span, and behavioral components as well as their academic/cognitive functioning. • Can annual IEP goals be supported with this format? Progress on annual IEP goals is the hallmark of whether FAPE is being provided. • Consideration of a hybrid model for some students could include some in person support combined with online support.

3. When and How to Use an Online Learning Environment for Special Education Students • When: It should be used WHEN it can meet the needs of the individual student. It should not be a categorical decision. • How: • Speech therapy and Specialized Academic Instruction can be used to address needs with Elluminate and/or online speech therapy (see resource links) • Should be synchronous versus asynchronous. • Small group or individual • With small group, you may consider the use of an “aide” to walk around the virtual classroom “breakout rooms” • Individual Transition goals can be worked on via elluminate. • Depending on the age and the goals being addressed, individual sessions and/or group sessions can be provided.

4. Let’s Meet Jessica

5. Jessica is a 7th grade special education student at the local charter school. She loves meeting with her Resource Teacher once a week in her online classroom.

6. Jessica has 2 IEP Goals Language: Jessica will monitor expository text using word, sentence and paragraph clues to determine meaning of unknown words with 80% accuracy in 4 of 4 trials as measured by teacher-generated assessment. Math: when given a teacher-made chart that shows the terminology, steps, and process for solving a single and multi-step addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problem, Jessica will identify key terms and apply steps to solve word problems with 80% accuracy in 4 of 4 trials as measured by work samples or rubric.

7. As Jessica’s Virtual RSP Teacher, how can I create a virtual lesson that will help her meet her IEP goals?

8. Let’s Take a at Jessica’s Virtual Math Lesson

9. 15 Minute Rule Approximately every 15 minutes use a different instructional strategy to support the objective of the lesson.

10. Reteach/Direct Instruction Using FREE Online Sites There are many free sites available on the internet. Don’t reinvent the wheel!

11. Reteach/Direct Instruction by Application Sharing a PPT Thousands of FREE PPTs available online

12. Time to Transition and Check for Understanding.

13. Practice Makes Perfect

14. Final Transition for Jessica to Reinforce the Learning Objective

15. Educational FUN!!! Application share games or Web Tour videos to reinforce the learning objectives.

16. Math Websites and Virtual Manipulatives Check out these fun math websites and virtual manipulatives. • National Library of Virtual Manipulatives -http://nlvm.usu.edu/ • Free Online Math Resources - http://olc.spsd.sk.ca/de/math1-3/virtualmanipulatives.html • www.funbrain.com • www.aaamath.com • www.vectorkids.com • www.multiplication.com • www.purplemath.com • www.coolmath4kids.com • www.mathisfun.com • www.armoredpenguin.com/math/ • www.brainpop.com • www.quickmath.com

17. Reading Websites • Curriki: http://www.curriki.org/ • Graphic Organizers for Reading Comprehension: http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=2983 • Interactive online Reading activities:http://www.readingmatrix.com/directory/pages/ • Storyline Online: http://www.storylineonline.net/ • Corrective Reading Instituted: http://www.correctivereadinginstitute.com/site/1320235/page/757572 • SRA: http://www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/sra/free-downloads.htm#placement2 Scroll down to Placement Tests • Grammar Review: http://www.rhlschool.com/english.htm • Magnetic Poetry & Sentence Unscramble: http://home.freeuk.net/elloughton13/scramble2.htm • ReadWriteThink: http://www.readwritethink.org/ • Wordle:http://www.wordle.net/ • Living Word Wall:http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/writing/Kids_Writing.html

18. Writing Websites • Handwriting Worksheet Maker: http://www.handwritingworksheets.com/ • Graphic Organizers for Reading Comprehension: http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=2983 • Six Traits of Writing: http://jc-schools.net/write/editing.html • Grammar Review: http://www.rhlschool.com/english.htm • Magnetic Poetry & Sentence Unscramble: http://home.freeuk.net/elloughton13/scramble2.htm • AUTHOR IN THE SPOTLIGHT: http://www.teachnet-lab.org/berkowitz/author_study.htm • Graphic Organizers: http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/ • Daily Writing Prompts:http://www.theteacherscorner.net/daily-writing-prompts/ • Intervention Central:http://www.interventioncentral.org/academic-interventions • Start Teaching:http://www.starteaching.com/writing.htm#writingprocess • Other Writing Links:http://techcoachcorner2.org/writing.html

19. Jessica is doing so well in her virtual resource classes. It’s time to check her progress using academic probes.

20. Graded Word List

21. Reading Comprehension

22. Math

23. In Jessica’s Online Virtual Resource Classroom the Options are Limitless!

24. Resources • Virtual Speech Therapy: Presence Learning. www.presencelearning.com • Contact information: Clay Whitehead, President 415.512.9001 office (direct dial) • Greendot schools and Southwest SELPA Transition Resources: http://www.animopd.org/Transition_Resources.html • iReady. http://www.i-ready.com/ • Scantron : http://www.achievementseries.com/

25. Questions