If you haven’t noticed, SEL or Social Emotional Learning is a fairly new buzzword in education today. Thank goodness!!! Many school districts are educating the whole child with Social Emotional education instead of just focusing on academics. With all the new brain research, so many people are finding ways to teach children to understand and regulate their emotions. This is not only a plus for academics, but a plus for the emotional well-being […]
Read moreToday I am concluding my series on the Culture of Autism! With this 5thand final component of the culture, you will have insight as to what might possibly be causing behaviors in your students on the autism spectrum. Think of the behavior you see as an iceberg. The visible behavior is the tip of the iceberg, but what is causing that behavior is what is lurking below the waters and […]
Read moreWelcome Back!!! It feels great to be back posting ideas and strategies for you! Jerry and I had a wonderful time with all 4 kids and all 4 significant others in sunny Oviedo, Fl!!! We got to engage in some friendly competition doing Whirly Ball, had gingerbread house competition and just enjoyed being together! I hope you got to do the same with your family and friends. Now back to business! […]
Read moreI know you must have tried a variety of things out of necessity or even desperation when you have a student with behaviors you want to go away. Every time I hear about what someone came up with to help make a problem better, I can only imagine that there are hundreds, even thousands of unique, smart, clever ideas that have been used. If only we could all share what […]
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06
Nov
2016
Do You Know About the 90 Second Pause?
When you are dealing with students who have behavior issues, you need all of the tools in your toolbox that you can get. Sometimes you need to use the 2+2, sometimes you need work systems, sometimes you do a planned ignore. No matter how many times your tried and true strategies work, there is always that one student who empties your toolbox. You find yourself running to the nearest Internet […]
Read moreNow that you’ve been introduced to Dr. Ross Greene and one of his tools, the ALSUP, it would be important for you to learn how to use it! Remember, it’s not the behaviors we want to focus on, it’s the lagging skills that the child has not yet developed. The key to figuring out when the lagging skills occur is to discover the situations during your child’s day that the […]
Read moreSeveral years ago I was working with a young girl who needed homebound services because she was too medically fragile to attend school. I was both her speech/language therapist and her teacher. It was my job to teach her some communication skills and to stimulate her thinking and to explore what she was able to learn. Nearly everyday that I provided services, this little girl’s grandmother would watch me work. […]
Read moreI took a course a few years back on how to work with children who had behavior issues and it really stuck with me for several reasons. Basically, I thought the ideas on how to get the attention of some students were brilliant. One of the ideas was that if a student was being the class clown, the teacher’s plan was to temporarily send him/her next door where the students […]
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