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Goose Creek CISD Special Education 2012 - 2013

Goose Creek CISD Special Education 2012 - 2013. Districtwide Staff Development Conference February 15, 2013. The mission of the

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Goose Creek CISD Special Education 2012 - 2013

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  1. Goose Creek CISD Special Education 2012 - 2013 Districtwide Staff Development Conference February 15, 2013

  2. The mission of the GCCISD Special Education Department is to support the campuses in order to nurture inclusionary environments, enhance student achievement, and maintain compliant special education programs.

  3. Presenters Sterling Feeder pattern: Lynn Walker, LSSP Alice Ricks, Diagnostician Memorial Feeder pattern: Dr. Lisa McHaney, LSSP Kay Brown, Diagnostician Lee Feeder pattern: Kawanza Dukes, LSSP Angela Raithel, Diagnostician

  4. Working Memory The Interface Academic, Emotional and Social Impact

  5. Learning Objectives • What is Working Memory? • The role of working memory in learning. • Interventions and strategies to improve working memory academically, emotionally, and socially.

  6. The Interface

  7. What is “Working Memory”? • “Working Memory supports human cognitive processing by providing an interface between perception, short-term memory, long-term memory, and goal-directed actions. Working memory is particularly necessary for conscious cognitive processing because it permits internal representation of information to guide decision making and overt behavior. Fundamentally, working memory is one of the main cognitive processes underlying thinking and learning” (Lepine, Barrouillet, & Camos, 2005).

  8. Examples of Working Memory • Remembering a telephone number long enough to dial • Following driving directions • Remembering names of new people • Remembering birth dates, anniversary dates, important future dates • Childhood memories • Remembering the rules to languages, science, social rules, norms and cultures

  9. Working Memory … • A man with no memory • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwigmktix2Y • A woman who can’t forget • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoxsMMV538U • Memory Master • http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=p-j4WWko-4Y

  10. Short-term memory (STM) Working Memory (WM) • Passively holds information • STM capacity is domain specific verbal and visual) • Not a strong relationship with academic learning • Automatically activates information stored in long-term memory • No management functions • Operates independent of long-term memory • Retains information coming from the environment • Actively process it • Less domain specific • Strong relationship with academic learning and higher-level cognitive functions • Consciously directs retrieval of desired information from log-term memory • Has some executive functions • Operations relies heavily on long-term memory structures • Retains products of various cognitive processes

  11. Types of working memory • Auditory working memory • Visual-spatial working memory • Semantic working memory

  12. Executive Functioning Is a set of mental processes that helps connect past experience with present action. People use it to perform activities such as planning, organizing, strategizing, paying attention to and remembering details, and managing time and space.

  13. Behaviors that maybe indicative of a working memory weakness/deficit • Poor sustained attention • Poor organizational skills • Partial or very limited recall of new information • Poor phonological skills • Poor reading fluency • Poor reading comprehension skills • Off-task behaviors • Misconceptions of social cues • Poor problems solving skills • Difficulty with multi-step directions or problem solving • Limited mental manipulation for the purpose of analysis, cause & effect, inferences, synthesis, etc.

  14. Intervention and Strategies • Rote strategies – not as effective – not meaningful • Rehearsal – basic memory strategy • Relational – higher level working memory, increases the probability of long-term storage • Semantic Rehearsal – word list (create a story using all the words/numbers/formulas from the list) • Chunking – divide and conquer making it more palatable to retain and retrieve information • Paraphrasing – your interpretation of what the teacher said • Elaboration strategy- thinking aloud, uses material the student is familiar with, use of prior knowledge and reminders of prior knowledge

  15. Identification and Assessing Working Memory • In the school setting the identification of a working memory weakness/deficit is most often done by the Educational Diagnostician and/or Licensed Specialist in School Psychology.

  16. Disorders/Disabilities in which working memory has a role • Attention Deficit /Hyperactivity Disorder • Reading Disorder • Math Disorder • Writing Disorder • Some emotional and behavioral disorders • Seizure Disorder • Traumatic Brain Injury • Intellectual Disability • Lesions on the brain

  17. Memory Quiz http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=mmyRhYnsF34 http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=UUxRlH5_3WfLM5dPn9als6Qw&v=j t9ppA-0Y4U&feature=player_detailpage

  18. Questions and Answers

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