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Mississippi Association for Psychology in the Schools: Jim Wright's Workshops
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On Wednesday, 5 March 2014, Jim Wright presented several workshops at the 2014 Annual Conference for the Mississippi Association for Psychology in the Schools in Oxford, MS. Here are materials from those presentations.
- Morning Session: PPT: Gaining the Instructional Edge: How to Find & Fix Academic Skill Deficits Through RTI and the Common Core Standards.
- Workshop Handout
- How To: Improve Academic Interventions: 7 Big Ideas
- How To: Create a Written Record of Classroom Interventions'
- Classroom Intervention Planning Sheet [in RTF/MS Word format]. This 1-page form is an organizer to help teachers to easily document Tier 1 (classroom) interventions.
- How To: Use Accommodations with General-Education Students: Teacher Guidelines.
Here are links to some interventions discussed at the training:
- Incremental Rehearsal: Letter Identification
- How to Build Sight-Word Vocabulary: 4 Methods
- Letter Cube Blending
- Sample Reading Fluency Interventions: 7 Ideas
- HELPS Reading Fluency Program
- Reading Comprehension: Fix-Up Strategies
- Reading Comprehension: RAP (Read-Ask-Paraphrase)
- Text Lookback
- Question Generation
- Reading Comprehension Fix-Up Strategies
- Number Sense Intervention: Counting Board Game
- Strategic Number Counting Instruction
- Math Facts (and Spelling) Intervention: Cover-Copy-Compare
- Reciprocal Peer Tutoring in Math Computation With Constant Time Delay
- Customized Math Self-Correction Checklists
Here are interactive online tools that can help with intervention-planning:
- Online Tool: Academic Intervention Planner
- Online Tool: Academic Survival Skills Maker
- Online Tool: Accommodations Finder
Here are informal academic-skills checklists to help teachers to pinpoint areas of intervention:
- Academic Skills Checklist: Reading Decoding Fluency
- Academic Skills Checklist: Reading Comprehension
- Academic Skills Checklist: Writing
- Student Math Competencies: Sampling of Essential Skills
Here are 3 websites with research-based intervention ideas:
- Afternoon Breakout Session 1: PPT: Strong Behavior Management in Grades Pre-K Through 2.
- Behavior Management: 7 Big Ideas
- Using a Zone Defense System in Primary Classrooms
- Zone Defense System: Form in MS Word.
- 'Catalytic Comments': 10 Teacher Communication Strategies to Nudge Student Behaviors in the Right Direction
- The Color Wheel: Group-Wide Classroom Management
- Additional Behavior Management Ideas for Grades K-12
- Afternoon Breakout Session 2: PPT: Strong Behavior Management in Grades 3-12.
- Elements of Strong Classroom Behavior Management
- Defensive Management: 6 Steps to Organize the Classroom
- Additional Behavior Management Ideas for Grades K-12
- How To: Reduce Time-Outs With Active Response Beads
- How To: Calm the Agitated Student
Resources for Student Self-Monitoring:
- ‘How To’ Guide: 7 Steps for Setting Up Any Self-Monitoring Program
- Self-Monitoring: Attention
- Self-Monitoring: Academic Productivity
- Self-Monitoring: General Classroom Behaviors
- Self-Monitoring: Check-In/Check-Out: Behavior Report Cards
- Fixed-Interval Audio Tapes (MP3 files)
These free online behavior management tools were also discussed at the behavior management workshops: