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Supporting Children and Ourselves: Coping during Covid 19

K. Plummer Site — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 17:05:51 +0000

The materials below include guidelines and specific ideas about how to Support Children Who are Home due to the corona virus.

There are also specialized Guidelines for Teachers to build connection and support students in a virtual classroom environment. Many of these materials are useful to both parents and teachers.

Also please see the Managing Pandemic Stress Toolkit to support caregivers, educators and healthcare providers, or anyone experiencing unprecedented stress during the corona virus pandemic.

There are also guides and tools to help you Prepare Yourself for the Return to School in the Fall. Including support for trauma-impacted children.

Support Children Who Are Home

Modules I-VIII are guidelines to help parents support their children while they are home from school during corona virus (Covid 19). Each module is a different component of support, because you may want to provide this information in smaller organized pieces. Modules are grouped, so please be sure to scroll through longer documents.

Module I: Structure Through Schedules and Routines
Module II: Attunement, Increasing the Quality of Adult Attention
Module III: Quiet Time, Solitary Time, Restore and Reset
Module IV: Promoting Positive Actions and Positive Emotions
Module V: Expressing Gratitude and Appreciation
Module VI: Information Control for Children
Module VII: Supportive Communication (Part 1)
Module VIII: Supportive Communication (Part 2)
Related Materials and Links (All Modules)

Introduction and Modules I, II, and III:
Support Your Children: Modules: I,II,II (pdf)

Modules IV and V:
Support Your Children: Modules: IV and V (pdf)

Modules VI, VII, VIII:
Support Your Children: Modules: VI – VIII (pdf)

Please also see: Additional Related Materials/Links for Modules I-VIII

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Materials to support teachers managing virtual classrooms:

Promoting Engagement in a Virtual Classroom
Achieving Social Connectedness While Physically Distant: The Appreciation Journal
Building on Your Student Relationships: Staying Attuned in a Virtual Classroom
Building on Your Student Relationships: Recognition and Reward
Related Materials for Teachers (All Articles, Guidelines/Links)
Engaging Less Motivated Students: A Checklist of Intervention Options for Virtual Classrooms
Student Performance During Distance Learning – Rating Form


Promoting Engagement in a Virtual Classroom (pdf)	Achieving Connectedness While Physically Distant (pdf)

Staying Attuned in a Virtual Classroom (pdf)	Relationship Development: Recognition (pdf)

Engaging Less Motivated Students (pdf)	Related Materials for Teachers (pdf)

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The Pandemic Stress Management Toolkit for caregivers, educators and healthcare providers.

Stress during this pandemic is like no other stress we’ve experienced before, which is why large numbers of educators and service providers are breaking down and experiencing uncontrolled stress responses. Many of our normal and automatic means of coping are inadequate for this increased demand. We need to be more deliberate in our efforts to reset the stress response ourselves. The following toolkit gives specific instruction to support individuals to interrupt the stress response and reset their brains and bodies.

Taking Care of Yourself During the Pandemic: Understanding Unprecedented Stress (pdf)	The Pandemic Stress Management Toolkit: Interrupting the Stress Response (pdf)

Teachers of the Pandemic	Reflection on the Pandemic

Go to: Prepare for Your Return to School

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ADHD Coupon Program

K. Plummer Site — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 05:59:46 +0000

The ADHD Coupon Program is designed to develop increased independence and self-monitoring skills in ADHD students, along with increased motivation for self-control and increased attention to critical work habits. This program has been used successfully with ADHD elementary and middle school students, in small special education classrooms as well as in the mainstream setting when the mainstream setting is staffed by special education personnel in addition to the classroom teacher…

Coupons/Forms for Review and Download

Download: ADHD Coupon Program
Guidelines for Using the Coupon Program

ADHD Coupons – Elementary School
ADHD Coupons – Middle School
ADHD Coupons – Positive Feedback

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Green Zone Guidelines

K. Plummer Site — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 17:47:13 +0000

Additional credit: Elizabeth Dubois, for contributions to the development of the Quick Reference visual in Green Zone Guidelines

A Quick Reference for General Guidelines for The Green Zone. More information on this program can be found here.

The Green Zone is a teaching tool, a means of instruction, of clarifying standards by providing timely visual and continuous feedback on performance. The goal of the Green Zone is to teach/clarify and to reward the student for improving performance or sustaining good performance levels.

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Shaping Student Identity

K. Plummer Site — Sat, 20 Aug 2016 16:57:19 +0000

It has been shown that a teacher’s narrative about a student—what the teacher thinks a student is like, what kind of person the teacher thinks the student is, what the teacher believes is the reason that the student does what (s)he does—influences the way the teacher interacts with that student, the attributions the teacher makes about that student’s behavior, and the teacher’s expectations of that student…

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The Values Recognition Program

K. Plummer Site — Tue, 16 Aug 2016 13:10:17 +0000

A Recognition-based Classroom Management Program Helping to Build Community in the Classroom

The Values Recognition Program is one of many programs designed to build community in the classroom. When a positive, productive classroom community is created it contributes to the positive culture of the room, which plays a vital role in student attitude toward learning and getting along with others…

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The Friendship Report

K. Plummer Site — Tue, 16 Aug 2016 12:35:15 +0000

The Friendship Report is a Continuous Feedback on Performance (CFP) program designed to reinforce social values and social skills in the classroom and improve social relations among students.

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The Hierarchy of Student Needs in the Classroom

K. Plummer Site — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 14:16:09 +0000

Students come to school to learn, we all know that. They are motivated to feel capable, competent, and knowledgeable. They want to be proud of what they know and what they can learn. Unfortunately, that is not the description of most students. Most students come to school with a range of unmet needs, more basic needs than the need to feel capable, competent, and knowledgeable…

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Communication for Better Classroom Management

K. Plummer Site — Sat, 13 Aug 2016 15:30:44 +0000

How to build positive relationships and increase student motivation by using communication styles to your advantage. Learn to communicate in a way that reflects the kind of relationship you want to establish with and between your students.

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The Privilege Zone

K. Plummer Site — Sat, 16 Aug 2003 11:59:44 +0000

The new wave of behavior management programming is Continuous Feedback On Performance (CFP). A CFP program is any behavior management program that provides feedback to the student continuously, rather than after an incident or at the end of an interval of time…

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