Oklahoma Virtual Charter Academy: Jim Wright's Workshops

MORNING WORKSHOP: ELEMENTARY STAFF: The Elementary Teacher as Academic Intervention ‘First Responder’

• PPT:  The Elementary Teacher as Academic Intervention ‘First Responder’  

Elements of Effective Core Instruction:

• DIRECT INSTRUCTION CHECKLIST: How To: Deliver Direct Instruction in General-Education Classrooms.

How to Structure Classroom Interventions:

• 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.

Here are links to some  interventionists discussed at the training:

• Incremental Rehearsal: Letter Identification
•  How to Build Sight-Word Vocabulary: 4 Methods
• Sample Reading Fluency Interventions: 7 Ideas
• HELPS Reading Fluency Program 
• Reading Comprehension: Click or Clunk
  
• Reading Comprehension: Fix-Up Strategies
• Reading Comprehension: RAP (Read-Ask-Paraphrase)
  
• Reading Comprehension: Ask-Read-Tell Cognitive Strategy
  

• Number Sense Intervention: Counting Board Game
• Math Facts (and Spelling) Intervention: Cover-Copy-Compare
• Customized Math Self-Correction Checklists 

• Effective Elements of Writing Instruction
• Sentence-Combining

• Online Tool: Academic Intervention Planner

Here are skills-checklists:

• Academic Skills Checklist: Reading Decoding Fluency
• Academic Skills Checklist: Reading Comprehension
• Academic Skills Checklist: Writing
• Student Math Competencies: Sampling of Essential Skills

Check out these interactive tools to create student materials:

• Behavior Report Card Maker
• Academic Survival Skills Checklist Maker
• Self-Monitoring Checklist Maker
• Intervention Finder for Academics
• Intervention Finder for Behavior
• Accommodations Finder
• Jackpot Reward Finder

3 websites with good research-based intervention ideas:

• Intervention Central
• Evidence-Based Intervention Network
• Cognitive Strategy Instruction

Curriculum-Based Measurement: Sample Measures and Norms
CBM Type	Online CBM Application	CBM Directions & Norms
CBM: Letter Name Fluency & Letter Sound Fluency	Letter Name Fluency Generator	LNF/LSF: Directions & Norms
CBM: Oral Reading Fluency	Reading Passage Generator	Oral Reading Fluency: Directions & Norms
CBM: Maze Passages (Comprehension)	Maze Passage Generator	Maze: Directions & Norms
CBM: Early Math Fluency	Early Math Fluency Generator	Early Math Fluency: Directions & Norms
CBM: Math Computation	Math Worksheet Generator	Math Computation: Directions & Norms
CBM: Written Expression	Writing Probe Generator	Writing: Directions & Norms

AFTERNOON WORKSHOP: SECONDARY STAFF: Finding the Spark: How to Give Students the Tools to Manage Their Own Learning

• PPT:  Finding the Spark: How to Give Students the Tools to Manage Their Own Learning 

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

Here are ideas for understanding and using accommodations in the classroom:

• Accommodations: Definition, how to use, examples

Resources for Student Self-Management

• Student Self-Management Through Work-Planning Skills: Plan, Work, Evaluate, Adjust
• Structuring the 'Late Work' Teacher-Student Conference

Resources for Student Motivation

• Six Reasons Why Students are Unmotivated (and What to Do). Review the six most common reasons for poor motivation and how teachers can increase student engagement.
• How to Build a Positive Motivation Trap. This guide discusses how to make instruction more motivating by linking it to student interests.
• Behavioral Momentum: High-Probability Requests

Check out these interactive tools to create student materials:

• Behavior Report Card Maker
• Self-Monitoring Checklist Maker
• Intervention Finder for Academics
• Intervention Finder for Behavior
• Accommodations Finder
• Jackpot Reward Finder

Here are examples of student-managed interventions:

• Reading Reflection Pause. This intervention appears as the third idea in this larger collection of reading-comprehension fix-up skills.
• Reading Comprehension: RAP (Read-Ask-Paraphrase)
• Ask-Read-Tell (ART)
• Question Generation
• Math Self-Correction Checklists

Here are online 'beep tapes' that students can use to self-monitor their behaviors:

• Fixed-Interval Audio Tapes (MP3 files)

• 'Catalytic Comments': Here are 10 teacher communication tools that can help to increase student compliance.