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. [1]
- Workshop Handout [2]
- How To: Improve Academic Interventions: 7 Big Ideas [3]
- How To: Create a Written Record of Classroom Interventions' [4]
- Classroom Intervention Planning Sheet [5] [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. [6]
Here are links to some interventions discussed at the training:
- Incremental Rehearsal: Letter Identification [7]
- How to Build Sight-Word Vocabulary: 4 Methods [8]
- Letter Cube Blending [9]
- Sample Reading Fluency Interventions: 7 Ideas [10]
- HELPS Reading Fluency Program [11]
- Reading Comprehension: Fix-Up Strategies [12]
- Reading Comprehension: RAP (Read-Ask-Paraphrase) [13]
- Text Lookback [14]
- Question Generation [15]
- Reading Comprehension Fix-Up Strategies [12]
- Number Sense Intervention: Counting Board Game [16]
- Strategic Number Counting Instruction [17]
- Math Facts (and Spelling) Intervention: Cover-Copy-Compare [18]
- Reciprocal Peer Tutoring in Math Computation With Constant Time Delay [19]
- Customized Math Self-Correction Checklists [20]
Here are interactive online tools that can help with intervention-planning:
- Online Tool: Academic Intervention Planner [23]
- Online Tool: Academic Survival Skills Maker [24]
- Online Tool: Accommodations Finder [25]
Here are informal academic-skills checklists to help teachers to pinpoint areas of intervention:
- Academic Skills Checklist: Reading Decoding Fluency [26]
- Academic Skills Checklist: Reading Comprehension [27]
- Academic Skills Checklist: Writing [28]
- Student Math Competencies: Sampling of Essential Skills [29]
Here are 3 websites with research-based intervention ideas:
- Intervention Central [30]
- Evidence-Based Intervention Network [31]
- Cognitive Strategy Instruction [32]
- Afternoon Breakout Session 1: PPT: Strong Behavior Management in Grades Pre-K Through 2. [33]
- Behavior Management: 7 Big Ideas [34]
- Using a Zone Defense System in Primary Classrooms [35]
- Zone Defense System: Form in MS Word. [36]
- 'Catalytic Comments': 10 Teacher Communication Strategies to Nudge Student Behaviors in the Right Direction [37]
- The Color Wheel: Group-Wide Classroom Management [38]
- Additional Behavior Management Ideas for Grades K-12 [39]
- Afternoon Breakout Session 2: PPT: Strong Behavior Management in Grades 3-12. [40]
- Elements of Strong Classroom Behavior Management [41]
- Defensive Management: 6 Steps to Organize the Classroom [42]
- Additional Behavior Management Ideas for Grades K-12 [39]
- How To: Reduce Time-Outs With Active Response Beads [43]
- How To: Calm the Agitated Student [44]
Resources for Student Self-Monitoring:
- ‘How To’ Guide: 7 Steps for Setting Up Any Self-Monitoring Program [45]
- Self-Monitoring: Attention [46]
- Self-Monitoring: Academic Productivity [47]
- Self-Monitoring: General Classroom Behaviors [48]
- Self-Monitoring: Check-In/Check-Out: Behavior Report Cards [49]
- Fixed-Interval Audio Tapes (MP3 files) [50]
These free online behavior management tools were also discussed at the behavior management workshops: