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NYCASE 2016: Jim Wright's Workshops
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Click on the links below to find resources from Jim Wright's NYCASE Summer 2016 workshops:
- Finding the Spark: Communication Tools to Motivate the Struggling Learner
- Schools That Really Care: Expanding RTI to Address Social & Emotional Needs
FINDING THE SPARK. On Tuesday, 19 July 2016, Jim Wright presented the workshop Finding the Spark: Communication Tools to Motivate the Struggling Learner at the New York Council of Administrators 0f Special Education (NYCASE) conference in Saratoga Springs, NY. .Here are resources from that training:
Assumption 1: Self-Communication. Student motivation increases when learners communicate to themselves the correct attributions (explanations) about their own academic performance and the intentions of those who teach them.
Assumption 2: Teacher-to-Student Communication. Student motivation increases when teachers regularly communicate optimistic messages that link academic success to effort and planful process.
Assumption 3: Student-to-Teacher Communication. Student motivation increases when the learner communicates questions, needs, and preferences to the teacher.
Assumption 4: Task Communication. Student motivation increases when assigned academic tasks clearly communicate their requirements and performance standards.
- Student Self-Regulation: Work-Planning Conference: Description
- Student Independent Work: Planning Tool: Interactive Form
- Academic Survival Skills. The student possesses strong work habits in global skills such as time management, study skills, and organization.
- Academic Survival Skills Checklist Maker. This free web app allows educators to create customized checklists for such crucial survival skills as homework completion, organization, time management, and more.
- Self-Check Behavior Checklist Maker. Use this free web app to create customized checklists defining student behavioral expectations.
RTI BEHAVIOR. On Tuesday 19 July 2016, Jim Wright presented a workshop, Schools That Really Care: Expanding RTI to Address Social & Emotional Needs, at the New York Council of Administrators 0f Special Education (NYCASE) conference in Saratoga Springs, NY. .Here are resources from that training:
RTI: Behavior: Introduction
- RTI Behavior 'Critical Elements' Checklist: Tiers 1,2,3. Use this checklist for a quick review of he elements of RTI-B and to evaluate your school or district's current implementation of RTI for behavior.
- NYS RTI Technical Assistance Center. This site provides resources and guidance for NYS schools on implementation of RTI.
Tier 1:Class-Wide Management
- How to Implement Strong Core Instruction: Direct Instruction Checklist (Interactive Form). This handout gives teachers a checklist that they can use to evaluate their whole-group instruction to ensure that it it 'optimized' to reach the struggling learner. Use this tool to verify that classroom instruction is adequate and motivating.
Group Behavior Management Ideas:
- Using a Zone Defense System in Primary Classrooms
- Zone Defense System: Form in MS Word.
- Good Behavior Game
- Teacher-Student Learning Game
- The Color Wheel: Group-Wide Classroom Management
- Defensive Management: 6 Steps to Organize the Classroom
Free online app discussed:
- Self-Check Behavior Checklist Maker. Use this app to develop checklists that students can use to guide their learning and take responsibility for their behaviors.
Tier 1: Classroom Behavioral Intervention
- How To: Create a Written Record of Classroom Interventions. This form is a convenient tool for teachers to use to document quick Tier 1 intervention plans.
- Classroom Intervention Planning Sheet (Interactive Form)
Free online aps discussed:
- Behavior Report Card Maker. This app allows teachers to create and print off customized Behavior Report Cards (BRCs) to easily collect classroom behavioral data.
Tier 2: Supplemental Interventions
Here are websites that present information about RTI-B Tier 2/3 programs:
- What Works Clearinghouse
- National Center on Intensive Intervention: Behavior Intervention Tools Chart
- Description of Solution-Focused Brief Counseling (SFBC): California School Psychologist journal (2009)
Tier 3: Intensive Interventions
- Tier 3: RTI Team Roles
- Tier 3: RTI Team Case Manager Pre-Meeting Form
- Tier 3: RTI Team Meeting introductory Script
- Tier 3: RTI Team Meeting 'Facilitator's Guide'
- Tier 3: RTI Team Meeting Forms: Interactive.
- Tier 3: RTI Team 'Quality Indicators' Checklist
School-Wide Behavior Screening Tools
- Website: National Center on Intensive Intervention: Behavior Progress-Monitoring Tools Chart
- Building an RTI-B Schoolwide Screening Process Through Archival Data & Multi-Gating Procedures