Boldly Go Where No School

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Boldly Go Where No School

• Has Gone Before.

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Our Philosophy

• Positive Expectations
• Students tend to learn as little or as much as
  their teachers expect.
• Teachers who set and communicate high
  expectations to all their students obtain greater
  academic performance.
• US Dept of Ed 1986
• Create an environment for all students to
  succeed.
• The best gift students can receive is a year
• with a teacher who truly believes in them.
  
  
  
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Where Have All Our Special Education Students
Gone?
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Response to Intervention

• We CARE
• Our RTI Team
• The Process
• Universal Screening
• Why?
• I-Steep
• How, Who, When?

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I-Steep Universal Screening
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I-Steep Universal Screening
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I-Steep Universal Screening
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Response to Intervention

• Progress Monitoring
• Ability Groups
• Tier Reading and Math

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A Multi-age Classroom
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The One Room School HouseOnly Better!

• How do you manage a one
• Room school house in the
• 21st century?
• Investigative Learning
• Active Student involvement
• Ownership for the students.

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Its Kinda Like Tossed Salad

• If you ATE our salad
• Cooperate
• Facilitate
• Operate
• Manipulate
• Create
• Assimilate

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Creative Schedules

• K-1 Schedule
• 2007-2008
• 800-830 Opening
• 830-1000 Reading Groups
• 1015-1055 PE K/Math 1st
• 1055-1115 K-1 Lunch
• 1130-1210 PE 1st/Math K
• 1210-1230
• 1230-130 Enrichment (Switch at 25 min)
• Spanish--Gomez
• Learning Games--Worley
• Counselor--Dobbs
• Nurse-- Burleson
• Library--Harrison
• ComputerTindol
• 130-200 Nap K/Writing 1st
• 200-210 Afternoon Recess
• 210-315 Sci/SS/Centers
• 315-325 Dismiss

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Co-Teaching in a Multi-age Class
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Inclusion Class???
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INCLUSION
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NEWS RoomNurturing Environment With Support
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Inclusion Timeline

• Spring 2004 As a staff we discussed going to
  full Inclusion with our Special Education
  students.
• Summer 2004 All Staff went to Susan Fitzells
  Special Needs in the General Classroom Workshop
  at Reg 18.
• Fall 2004
• -Inservice held on campus using the Inclusive
  Classroom video series.
• -Began Inclusion with all grades and subjects
  (excluding 6th grade Math)
• -Book Study using Classroom Instruction that
  Works
• Summer 2005 Multiage Program began. Teachers
  meet and worked together. Special Education
  Co-op provided inservice on Co- Teaching in the
  Inclusive Classroom.
• Fall 2005 Full Inclusion. Parent Meeting to
  discuss new programs
• Region 18 Consultant provided on campus training
  for Para Professionals
• Region 18 Consultant provided training for
  teachers on Tier Reading
• Fall 2006 Extended Multi age to grades 2 and 3.
• Continue Staff Development as needed..

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Instructional Focus Visits

• Teachers helping teachers become better
  educators. Collecting data centered on curriculum
  and instruction.
• Are we teaching the TEKS on grade level?
• Helping each other with teaching strategies,
  classroom management, and discipline.
• Developing an environment that is student
  centered.

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Benefits of the IFV

• Teachers wanted to know what others were doing in
  their grade level. This opens communications
  between educators.
• Teachers dont feel threatened by other
• teachers in their classrooms.
• If you have knowledge, let others
• light their candles at it.
• --Margaret
  Fuller
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Differentiated Instruction

• Teaching to the whole while meeting individual
  needs
• Accepting that different methods are of equal
  value
• Evaluation students based on their individual
  needs
• Involves all students in the lesson using
  questioning aimed at different levels of thinking
  (Blooms Taxonomy) Susan Fitzell-Special Needs
  in the General Classroom

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There is Help Out There

• Dover, Wendy. Training Guide for the Para
  Educator. Manhattan, KS Master Teacher, Inc,
  2002.
• Fitzell, Susan. Special Needs In the General
  Classroom. Manchester, NH Cogent Catalyst
  Publications, 2004.
• Khalsa, SiriNam. Inclusive Classroom. Leverett,
  MA Good Year Books, 2205.
• Marano, Robert, Pickering, Debra, Pollock, Jane.
  Classroom Instruction that Works. Danvers, MA
  McREL, 2001.
• Shinsky, John. The Inclusive School. Lansing, MI
  Shinsky Seminars Inc.
• Tileston, Donna. What Every Teacher Should Know
  about Diverse Learners. Thousand Oaks, CA Corwin
  Press, 2004.
• www.I-Steep.com

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Our Prestigious Choir Inclusion Students???
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• It is impossible to teach without the courage
  to love, without the courage to try a thousand
  times before giving up.
• --Paulo Freire
• Coahoma Elementary TEPSA Fall Summit 2007.
• bennettp_at_coahoma.esc18.net