BCS Sped Talk
Monthly Tips, Talk , & Togetherness
September 2021
Important Reminder!
Related service providers should complete their PR's no later than October 8th, so that the case manager can complete their part, finalize, and print by 10/22/21.
Best Behavior Practices: The Secret to Keeping Behaviors Low-Level
- Be aware of your own emotional state. If the particular behavior pushes your buttons, take a time out and return to the behavior when calmer.
- Keep your response low-level i.e. give minimal attention, use non-verbal cues, continue teaching, give private reminders, focus on the learning.
- Be aware of your body language, tone of voice and stance and keep it calm, firm and friendly
- Consider whether the behavior can be ignored temporarily and dealt with at the end of the lesson.
- Use your knowledge and relationship with the student to determine your response.
- Redirect the student to the learning task without mentioning their behavior.
- Use positive reinforcement strategically and purposefully for the students who are on task to prompt others to modify their behavior.
Restorative Practices: 5 Tips for Quick Formative Assessment
Formative assessment is a critical way to monitor student learning – especially at the beginning of the school year – and to provide ongoing feedback throughout the rest of the year.
1) Use checks for understanding. Checking for student understanding is essential to formative assessment.
- Summaries and reflections: Students stop and reflect on what they’ve learned.
- Lists, charts and graphic organizers: Students can organize information in order to make connections to ideas or concepts.
- Visual representations: Students explain what they’ve learned with drawings and pictures.
- Exit tickets: Students respond to a question, solve a problem, or summarize their understanding on an exit ticket after a lesson or activity.
2) Facilitate student conversations. Providing students with opportunities to work together.
3) Keep track of data. When you use formative assessments, keep track of the data you collect. This data can be maintained in order to assess progress towards IEP goals.
4) Provide quick, meaningful feedback. Using your organized data, give students learning-focused feedback and time to practice using it.
5) Empower kids to set and monitor goals. Allow students the opportunity to create and monitor their own learning goals. Goal-setting builds a culture of learning where students support themselves and their peers.
IEP Compliance Pointers:
At least one time a year, the parents of a child with a disability must receive from the school system a complete explanation of all the procedural safeguards available to them, as parents, under IDEA.
Please make sure you are providing a copy of procedural safeguards in all meetings and that you are reading the ten statements from the Quick Reference to Procedural Safeguards that was provided at the beginning of the school year. It is a good idea to put a laminated copy of that document in the conference room and other locations where meetings are held.
Document in the minutes that the Procedural Safeguards were provided to the parent and explained.
Look What's Happening in BCS!!
Enjoying fresh air and a fun activity.
Proudly displaying her beautiful shirt.
Working hard to create a masterpiece with Mrs. Mobley.
Rachel Taylor's students took a trip to France!
My students boarded virtual plane for a big adventure to Paris! We learned how to take the metro by reading the schedule then caught our train to the Louvre. We toured the museum and made sure not to miss the Mona Lisa. We then got a bit hungry and hopped in a virtual taxi and noticed the sights along the way to the boulangerie. Once at the bakery, we were able to live the day in the life of a French baker. We learned about different parts of the bakery apprentice program and then got to virtually smell fresh baguette. We also got to learn a few words in French before we hopped on the plane to return back to Elmore Park. Once back in our real classroom…we were able to follow steps of a recipe to make our own chocolate croissants.
Michelle Haney-Supervisor
Email: mhaney@bartlettschools.org
Website: http://www.bartlettschools.org
Location: 5705 Stage Road, Bartlett, TN, USA
Phone: (901)202-0855