Examining our Practice with SWD students in the regular classroom

Last week's blog focused on simply remembering that our students with disabilities are to engage in and make growth on the general education curriculum while they are in their regular education classrooms. Looking at some general characteristics of Students with Disabilities can help you plan with them in mind. Again, not all of our special education students have all of these characteristics, but they may have one or a few of them.

• Disorganization
• Difficulty processing verbal directions
• Difficulty maintaining knowledge or content from one day to the next
• Difficulty maintaining attention

These may be things that you can plan for...

Checklists for tasks and mapping for organization of writing can be useful to students grappling with disorganization. 

Have a student repeat what they are being asked to do back to you to be sure they understood verbal directions or having the directions reflected in written words or pictures may also help to assure they know what to do.

A review of the previous day's learning before beginning learning for today may also help students maintain their knowledge and successful add on to it. 

Frequent check -ins or chunking of tasks can help students who struggle with maintaining attention complete a task. 

These are strategies that can be added to any classroom that might help students with disabilities access core curriculum.

Introduction of a new staff member

 Thank you for all you do Mr. Taylor! Here's

hoping you love your new air fryer! 

P.S. We told you there was a "present" for you in the health room!

One of Ms. Layman's student's shares a strategy he used to solve a word problem.

Here is a link to some great music! Have a great weekend!

Thanks to the DDMS and GHHS bands and Mrs. Small for arranging this opportunity for our fifth graders!

https://drive.google.com/open?id=14DJr9CFWHUiAc5ggZDrjaGWXGCZVprS5