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Prepare Yourself for Your Return to School

K. Plummer Site — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 19:58:56 +0000

Dealing With the Emotional Impact of the Pandemic on Educators and Returning Students

We must give serious thought to the stress and the emotional impact that working under pandemic conditions has created for educators, because they will be returning to the school buildings in the fall and the job cannot be done well by people who are worn out, burdened by stress, scarred by trauma and filled with feelings of guilt, regret and inadequacy.

The pandemic experience has already had a profound effect on educators personally, professionally and emotionally. What can we do right now…

Introduction: Prepare Yourself for Your Return to School
Teachers of the Pandemic
Reflection on the Pandemic
Understand the Adverse Impact
Mitigate the Adverse Impact
Helping Students Feel More Secure
Supporting Trauma-Impacted Students Returning to School
Pandemic Trauma in Students Returning to School Buildings

Related Reference Materials

Please also see: Supporting Our Children and Ourselves During A Stressful Time.

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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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ASD School Program Model for Children With an Autism Spectrum Disorder

K. Plummer Site — Sat, 04 Aug 2018 14:25:45 +0000

Treatment Approach:

The School Clinical & Consulting Services (SCCS) treatment approach for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is eclectic. It is based on a combination of strategies and fundamental principles from many different approaches to treating ASD, including; structured teaching from Division TEACCH (Treatment and Education of Autistic and related Communication handicapped Children), incidental learning from Stanley Greenspan (floor time), Kathleen Quill, and many others, ecological intervention from the SCERTS Model (social communication emotional regulation and transactional support), and applied behavior analysis (ABA).

Examples of the Intervention Strategy Guides:

Diagnostic Criteria For ASD
Description of Social Functioning For ASD Students
ASD Social Intervention
Description of Social Communication For ASD Students
Academic Situations That Challenge The Child With ASD
Classroom Situations That Challenge The Child With ASD
Behavior That Indicates The ASD Student Is Having Difficulty
Social Intervention In The Classroom
Reducing Confusion And Increasing Organization
Identifying Sources Of Stress And Developing a Coping Plan
Classroom Conditions That Support Students With ASD
Daily Rating of Adjustment and Program Participation
Restorative Breaks

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ADHD – Guide to Articles and Forms

K. Plummer Site — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 18:14:07 +0000

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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Good Fit Program

K. Plummer Site — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 17:28:08 +0000

In all cases of the good fit program, you are using the student’s motivation to work harder to make things a good fit, and to accept responsibility when the activity or situation is no longer a choice (rather than the student placing blame externally). Also, “good fit” enables students to experience another chance at reward activities, but it is another chance with growth potential, a chance to do it differently, a chance to learn a new way to be successful with the activity or situation.

Good Fit Visual Chart (only) Below:

Being a Good Sport – Comprehension Guide Below:

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Classroom Management At The Secondary Level: From Community Building To Continuous Feedback On Performance

K. Plummer Site — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 16:31:49 +0000

The Importance Of Community

The classroom is a working, developing community with its own culture, its unique way of doing things, its own value system, its own set of spoken and implied standards of behavior, and its own way for students to achieve success and recognition. It can be a cold and competitive community where there isn’t enough recognition to go around, a hostile and mean community where members are often excluded, sometimes humiliated and punishment is the primary means of control, or it can be a warm and supportive community where students feel welcome, cared for and well respected.

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Daily Review

K. Plummer Site — Sun, 28 Aug 2016 15:29:36 +0000

Strategies for Organization and Stress for ASD Students: The Daily Review Form for Students.

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Social Intervention In The Classroom For Students With ASD

K. Plummer Site — Sun, 28 Aug 2016 15:24:37 +0000

It is important to remember that the ASD child needs the culture of the classroom to support the social values and social skills that (s)he is attempting to develop. (S)he needs to see other people using these skills, and (s)he needs to see the value and relevance of these skills as they apply to life in the classroom. Specific effort will need to be made to help the ASD child notice and understand as social values are being recognized. For more information about the nature of social functioning please see Description Of Social Functioning.

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Sample Guidelines To Promote Successful Inclusion: Hypothetical Elementary Grade ASD Student

K. Plummer Site — Sun, 28 Aug 2016 14:20:00 +0000

Sample Guidelines To Promote Successful Inclusion for a Hypothetical Elementary Grade ASD Student

Pre-teach some of the material from the upcoming academic lesson. Provide rehearsal and practice of some of the content or activity so it is familiar to student when he sees it in class.
Provide something in the lesson on student’s level. Differentiate instruction. Provide student with a role or function in the lesson or give him something to work on that connects him with what the other kids are doing.

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Classroom Conditions That Support Students With ASD

K. Plummer Site — Sun, 28 Aug 2016 14:13:37 +0000

The environment is well controlled and stimulation level is closely monitored for level of noise, amount of activity, movement about the room, and organization of materials. Student activity is generally productive, students are closely monitored and teacher intervention is provided quickly. Teachers utilizes preventative approaches to social and behavioral problems.

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Monitoring Student Engagement, Tolerance and Program Participation (ASD)

K. Plummer Site — Thu, 25 Aug 2016 18:48:50 +0000

Monitoring Performance

There are many good reasons for providing parents with information about student performance at the end of the school day. However, the communication between school and home should provide parents with a view of the entire day, not just selected memories, and it should include an objective measure of student performance. The information should not be anecdotal. It should be based on a rating scale that can be used to make comparisons throughout the day (across subjects and time) and from one day to the next. Direct download: Monitoring Participation
See also: Student Performance During Distance Learning

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