I was at a workshop in the afternoon looking at strategies of how to support learners in an Intensive Support Learning Disabilities classroom. The workshop was broken into three parts and I will briefly summarize each one.
1. Preparing for Learning. This portion dealt with the importance of ensuring that students have an understanding of who they are and how they learn best. Additionally,this segment spoke of the importance of integrating explicit social skill instruction into the weekly instructional schedule.
2. Assistive Technology. The various types of programs available to the students, via the TDSB network, were summarized. I plan to make this a goal of integrating them more in the lessons.
3. Executive Functioning. This set of skills are often overlapping and deal with such issues as inhibition, emotional control, initiation, planning and organization, and self-monitoring. These often confront, in different degrees, the learners in our class. Our brief discussion spoke of strategies to implement to support students who may have difficulties in this area.
In the class today, we took another step forward in our "paragraphing" unit. I think this may require another lesson, but the students began to work on an outline for their paragraphs. We will resume work on this next week and use a couple of the strategies from today's workshop to support the students.
I worked with small groups of students who had difficulty on the last Math test on Integers and mapping on a Coordinate Plane. I am hoping this intense review of the questions they had difficulty with will assist them when they are reassessed next week. A Study/Review sheet was sent home with each student to look at before next week's test.
Due to the holiday, there is no assigned homework for this weekend. Enjoy
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