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Reaching and Teaching the Whole Child Forum Children’s Health Council A professional development site for . Presenters : Karen Grites, M.S. Educational Specialist and Director of Center for Community Education Allison Berry, M.A. Resource Teacher Theuerkauf Elementary School.
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Reaching and Teaching the Whole Child Forum Children’s Health Council A professional development site for
Presenters: Karen Grites, M.S. Educational Specialist and Director of Center for Community Education Allison Berry, M.A.Resource Teacher Theuerkauf Elementary School
All Kinds of Minds and Schools Attuned®In 1995 All Kinds of Minds was co-founded by Dr. Mel Levine and Charles Schwab with a mission to enhance the lives of children with learning differences.In 1996 The Children’s Health Council (CHC) in Palo Alto became one of 7 nationally approved regional training sites to deliver the Schools Attuned® program. This program equips regular educators with knowledge of brain research and learning to improve their teaching and support of struggling students
Neurodevelopmental Constructs • Attention • Temporal Sequential Processing • Spatial Ordering • Memory • Language • Neuromotor functioning • Social Cognition • Higher Order Cognition
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Research about learning • Studying right before going to sleep helps students consolidate information most efficiently in memory • The tripod pencil grasp may not be the best grip for graphomotor control for all students- holding a pencil between the 2nd and 3rd fingers was successfully used in Germany • Focus objects can be helpful to students who struggle with attention
Memory Short Term Active Working Long Term: Consolidation and Access
Short Term Memory • In a moment I am going to show you a list of words for you to remember. • On the inside cover of your handout, be ready to write the list of words on the next frame. • No pencils until after the slide is removed! • Ready?
Short Term ExposureSaliency DeterminationRecodingDept/Detail of ProcessingThe Role of Short Term Memory
Reflections of Practice Question • What is the role of short term memory in your reading program, math program or writing instruction?
Academics Behavior Tier 3: 3 - 5% - PBIS Most Intensive Special education staff Functional Behavior Analysis counselors, psychs, behaviorist Intensive instruction Language!, High Point, Math workshop, summer school Behavior support plans - counselors, psychs, interv. team Tier 2: 10 - 12% Strategic classroom instruction Differentiation, small groups school wide structure & system Tier 1: 80 - 85% of struggling students
Academics Behavior Tier 3 - PBIS Attuning A Student Tier 2 Tier 1 Schools Attuned supports through: Lesson plan Analysis, Subject Analysis, Learning about Learning
Online Resources • Allkindsofminds.org website provides many important parent resources: articles, case studies, simulations and book excerpts • The learningbase offers public domain information about strategies for struggling learners
Schools Attuned • The Schools Attuned Program embraces that struggling students can respond to instruction once their strengths, weaknesses, and needs are understood through a carefully-managed process in their classrooms. • The Schools Attuned Program is focused on supporting the ways that students in all classrooms respond to instruction. RtI is supported across all tiers with Schools Attuned. • The Schools Attuned Program equips educators with a step by step problem solving process by arming them with knowledge, skills and tools to address interventions as student needs increase