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Accommodations for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders in the General Education Classroom (View any scheduled events)
This training opportunity will include a brief overview of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) including common characteristics, sensory processing differences, and behaviors of children with ASD. Participants will be exposed to strategies that can be utilized in the general education classroom to help students on the autism spectrum be more successful. These strategies include adaptive supports for reading, math, writing, spelling and test taking. Utilizing visual supports in creating successful transitions and visual cues that prompt better learning and social engagement will also be covered. This workshop will be especially beneficial for general education teachers and specialists. Description Last Updated: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 |
Autism
Behavior
| Special Education |
Accommodations in the General Classroom (View any scheduled events)
This workshop will include a brief overview of Asperger's Syndrome and Autism, common characteristics and behaviors of children with Asperger's and will then discuss strategies that can be utilized in the general education classroom to help students on the autism spectrum be more successful. This workshop will be especially beneficial for general education teachers and specialists. (Repeat of last year) Description Last Updated: Saturday, December 22, 2007 |
Accommodations
Autism
Behavior
Para Professional
| Special Education |
Accommodations Training (View any scheduled events)
The Accommodations Leadership Team will meet with building staffs to design an on-going training for general and special education teachers. The training will focus on learning and practicing accommodations strategies that will help all students be more successful in the general education classroom Description Last Updated: Friday, January 16, 2004 |
Accommodations
| Special Education |
ASD and Behavior (View any scheduled events)
This workshop will cover ASD and behavior. It will include an overview of Antecedent, Behavior and Consequences. It will discuss Rumble, Rage and Recovery. It will discuss FBA's and PBS. It will also address additional strategies to support teachers and educators in addressing the unique needs of children with ASD. This workshop will be beneficial and applicable for special educators, paraprofessional, administrators, OT's, SLP's and parents. Description Last Updated: Friday, July 27, 2007 |
Behavior
Discipline
Para Professional
| Special Education |
ASD and Social Skills Supports (Autism Workshop) (View any scheduled events)
This workshop will cover the basics of social skills stories, social thinking, video modeling and video feedback, visual strategies that support social behaviors and how to organize and operate social skills groups. This workshop will be especially beneficial for special educators, general educators, counselors, SLPs and parents. Participants will view workshops on DVD by Carol Gray and Michelle Garcia Winner. Description Last Updated: Tuesday, April 8, 2008 |
Autism
| Special Education |
ASD and Visual Strategies (View any scheduled events)
This workshop will cover the development and implementation of visual strategies to further support students with ASD in their educational opportunities. The class will cover visual scheduled, visual instructions, visual behavioral supports and other tools. This workshop will be beneficial for all educators, parents, and administrators. Visual strategies are wonderful supports not only for children with autism but for all children. Description Last Updated: Thursday, August 9, 2007 |
Autism
Behavior
| Special Education |
Audio Conference: Compliance Under the Education Stimulus Package (View any scheduled events)
A 90-minute interactive audio conference regarding administrative ins and outs of managing the influx of education funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. School finance expert Anna Munson will define the flow of new special education and Title I dollars and review US Department of Education guidance issued March 7. Advise on new requirements and guidance regarding the stimulus package's impact on critical fiscal issues: How and when the money can be spent, and spending term limits, maintenance of effort: If you can't decrease your districts state and local spending, how will ARRA stimulus your district? Supplement, not supplant: How do you avoid supplanting if you are paying for an activity or service with non-federal dollars this year, but need to pay for it with ARRA dollars next year? and use of stimulus funding for Response to Intervention and Coordinated Early Intervening Services efforts. Description Last Updated: Friday, March 27, 2009 |
Stimulus
| Special Education |
Audio Conference: Solving the Equation: How to Integrate Math Instruction and RTI (View any scheduled events)
90-minute interactive audio conference, Dr. David Allsopp will discuss research-supported practices in mathematics for struggling learners and how these practices cna be applied within RTI. Staff will discover: The learning needs of students who strugglewith mathematics, provide barriers to student learningand possible solutions, research-supported practices that serve the learning needs of these students, and how these practices might be integrated within RTI. Time will be allotted for questions and answers you can ask Dr. Allsopp any specific question you might have.
Dr. David Allsopp is Associate Professor of Special Education in the College of Education at the University of South Florida. He teachers at the undergraduate and graduate levels focusing on instructional methods for students with high incidence disabilities. Dr. Allsopp has been published in both special education and mathematics journals and has written multiple chapters in published books on mathematics instruction for sturuggling students. He regularly presents at internationaland national conferences and has co-authored several books on effective instructional practices for students with learning disabilities. He is co-developer of MathVIDS, an internet resource for teachers. He serves on the National Advisory Council for the RTI Action Network. Description Last Updated: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 |
Intervention
Response To Intervention
| Special Education |
Autism (View any scheduled events)
Strategies to support the social, communicative, academic learning of students with autism spectrum disorders. Description Last Updated: Thursday, November 5, 2009 |
Autism
| Special Education |
Beginning Braille (View any scheduled events)
Beginning braille for Vision specialists, para professionals working with students with vision impairments. Should have own brailler, but one may be provided if available Description Last Updated: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 |
Braille
| Special Education |
Braille and Assistive Technology Training (View any scheduled events)
Participants will learn all uncontracted Braille and contracted Braille signs and rules following the National Library of Congress certification program, using a brailler and slate n stylus. Description Last Updated: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 |
| Special Education |
CD Attention Deficit Disorder (View any scheduled events)
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), is an interactive computer-based instruction (CBI) course, designed to help you achieve a better understanding of ADD and intervention strategies to facilitate positive student change. Attention Deficit Disorder provides information on the history of the disorder, accepted methods to assess and identify students with the disorder, and various treatment methods that are currently being used to treat the disorder. The course helps you through the referral process when you feel a student needs services beyond what you are capable of or comfortable providing in your classroom environment. This course also lists resources for both teachers and parents who would like more help or information about ADD. This computer-based instruction course is a self-supporting program that provides instruction, structured practice, and evaluation all on your home or school computer. Information on installation and technical support can be found, and will be covered in detail, in the User Guide section of your computer software. Description Last Updated: Friday, August 8, 2008 |
Behavior
Cd
| Special Education |
CD Autism & Asperger's Disorder (View any scheduled events)
Autism and Asperger’s Disorder, is an interactive computer-based instruction (CBI) course designed to help you achieve a better understanding of Autism and Asperger’s Disorder, of intervention strategies to enhance communication and learning, and of methods for teaching more conventional behaviors. Autism and Asperger’s Disorder provides information on the characteristics of the disorder, learning styles associated with the disorder, communication weaknesses, and various intervention strategies that have proven to be successful when working with students with Autism Spectrum Disorders. The course helps you comprehend why individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders act the way they do, and what you can do to enhance more appropriate behavior. This course also lists resources for educators, related service personnel, and parents who would like more help or information on autism and Asperger’s Disorder.This computer-based instruction course is a self-supporting program that provides instruction, structured practice and evaluation all on your home or business computer. Information on installation and technical support can be found, and will be covered in detail, in the User Guide section of your computer software. Description Last Updated: Thursday, November 29, 2007 |
Autism
Cd
| Special Education |
CD Educational Assessment (View any scheduled events)
This course is designed to further develop the conceptual and technical skills required by teachers to help them identify their educational goals, and implement meaningful instructional strategies for effective learning by students with special needs. The focus of this course will therefore be on assessment for instructional programming. The course will outline procedures for designing or selecting, administering and interpreting, a variety of informal assessment measures typically used in schools. The use of a range of informal assessment measures in the academic and social skills areas will form the core of the content to be covered. The presentation of assessment information in an acceptable format to parents and teachers will also be addressed. The course is organized into four major sections. Each section has a number of chapters that highlight new, sometimes controversial, but always relevant, views or practices to this most dynamic of educational fields. Each section will include a list of objectives, which will help you focus your readings and discussions as well as clarify tasks that you should undertake to marry theory and practice. This computer-based instruction course is a self-supporting program that provides instruction, structured practice, and evaluation all on your home or business computer. Information on installation and technical support can be found, and will be covered in detail, in the User Guide section of your computer software. Description Last Updated: Thursday, November 29, 2007 |
Assessment
Cd
| Special Education |
CD Inclusion: Working with Special Needs Students in Mainstream Classr (View any scheduled events)
Inclusion: Working with Special Needs Students in the Mainstream Classroom was written to help teachers understand concepts and terms related to educating students in inclusive classrooms. The course also helps teachers learn about the continuum of placements school systems can use in providing special education services to students with disabilities. The course helps you understand the federal definition of students entitled to special education services, as well as procedures you can use in determining whether these students can be educated in the regular classroom. The course also identifies and describes the roles and responsibilities of special and general educators in providing special education services to students educated in inclusive classrooms. This interactive computer-based instruction (CBI) course is designed to help special and general educators gain a better understanding of inclusion, one of the current educational reform movements that advocates for educating students with disabilities in the general education classroom. This computer-based course is a self-supporting program that provides instruction, structured practice, and evaluation all on your home or business computer. Information on installation and technical support can be found, and will be covered in detail, in the User Guide section of your computer software. Description Last Updated: Thursday, November 29, 2007 |
Assessment
Behavior
Cd
| Special Education |
CD Learning Disabilities: Practical Information for Classroom Teachers (View any scheduled events)
Learning Disabilities: Practical Information for Classroom Teachers, is an interactive computer-based instruction (CBI) course, which provides an introduction to the field of Learning Disabilities for special education teachers, general classroom teachers, integration teachers and related professionals, especially those working in the areas of language, psychology and counseling.This course will cover diverse theoretical approaches, lay the foundations for sensitive and appropriate assessment and evaluation of students, provide directions for program planning and implementation, indicate the importance of and the need for a close, positive partnership with parents (or alternative caregivers) and consider ways for ensuring that the home-school axis is effective and meaningful. It will also consider some major trends and unresolved issues in the field of Learning Disabilities. The course is organized around four major sections. Each in turn has a number of chapters that highlight new, sometimes controversial, but always relevant views or practices to this most dynamic of educational fields. Each chapter will include a list of objectives. The objectives will help you focus your readings and discussions as well as clarify tasks that you should undertake to marry theory and practice. This computer-based instruction course is a self-supporting program that provides instruction, structured practice, and evaluation all on your home or school computer. Information on installation and technical support can be found, and will be covered in detail, in the User Guide section of your computer software.
Description Last Updated: Thursday, November 29, 2007 |
Assessment
Behavior
Cd
| Special Education |
Combined Summer Institute (View any scheduled events)
A variety of introductory sessions and intensive mini strands taught by veteran educators in the fields of autism, vision, deaf and hard of hearing, sign language, early childhood and significant disabilities strand Description Last Updated: Wednesday, May 5, 2004 |
Assessment
Autism
Community
Institute
Summer
| Special Education |
Combined Summer Institute with Focus on Education (View any scheduled events)
A combined strand of workshops addressing autism, deaf/heard of hearing, sign language interpreters, early childhood, vision, and significant disabilities.
Description Last Updated: Thursday, May 6, 2004 |
Autism
Institute
Summer
| Special Education |
Corrective Reading Workshop (SRA) (View any scheduled events)
Corrective Reading provides intensive direct instruction-based reading intervention for students in Grades 3-Adult who are reading below grade level. This Direct Instruction reading intervention program delivers tightly sequenced, carefully planned lessons that give struggling students the structure and practice necessary to become skilled, fluent readers and better learners. Workshop will cover a program overview, as well as teaching techniques that will include: classroom setup, scripted presentations, formats, 100% response on group tasks, planned correction procedures, pacing, signals, individual turns, positive reinforcement, and use of the point system. Also inlcuded will be Placement Testing, Model Lesson 26 Decoding B1, Teaching Strategies emphasizing on Word Attack, Group Story Reading, Individual Reading Checkout, Workbood and Grading.
Description Last Updated: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 |
Reading
| Special Education |
Creative Curriculum - 3 Day Workshop (View any scheduled events)
Participants will learn how to: (1) Record objective, authentic observations on children, (2)Assess preschool children's progress using the Creative Curriculum Development Continuum for preschoolers, (3) Use assessment data to plan for individual and small groups of children (4)Share Creative Curriculum Development Continuum assessment information with parents and set future goals (5) Align IEP goals with the Creative Curriculum objectives, (6) Individualize the curriculum for children based on outcome results, (7) Use CreativeCurriculum.Net to meet OSEP reporting requirements, (8) Set up the environment into well-defined, attrative interest areas, and (9) Strategies for being an intentional teacher to promote positive outcomes for all children. Description Last Updated: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 |
Curriculum
| Special Education |
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Interested in these opportunities? Looking for a different kind of training?
Check the Event Center for currently scheduled workshops/events. Also, a custom workshop might be available through Special Education. Contact Faye Fuchs, at faye.fuchs@esd105.org or 509 575-2885 for more information.
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