Unit Plan emailed to you Cindy.
Friday July 18, 2014

Teens at Risk Presentation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9lev9739zQ

I was a little confused by the message of this Tedx Talk. I understand that the presentation was about Teens at Risk. The woman in the Tedx talk spoke about being a misfit who discovered Marvel comics and became a cartoon editor. She explained her misfit life and how she connected with the Marvel characters who hid behing their masks as misfits but were heros.

I have taught these girls for years. My children are like this girl and so is my wife. The girl in the Tedx talk is a third culture kid.
She will never fit in beacuse she is caught between 2 cultures. It is a common phenomenom in international students. Their parents are of one nationality an culture and they are living in a different one. Where is home? Who are they? They try to be one but are really the other, yet they resist it and don't even understand it.
In the video she claimed that she is a misfit. She regulary commented about her clothes as a child. A south east asian girl would not do that.
Her parents chose to go to America. They are setlled with being south east asain in America and don't fit in. The girl struggles to fit in but is born and bred within this struggle. Her children will probably not experience the struggle.

My wife was born in Africa. She is Dutch but has Canadian citizenship. My children have an English dad and lived in China and Tanzania. They are third culture and will struggle to fit in. we moved here to give them a homebase.

The girl in the Tedx is not at risk. Her parents are immigrants and work hard to be successful. Expectations on these immigrant children are high and they are high achievers. The are not at risk. They learn the language quickly and usually achieve far beyond their 'adopted nation' peers.

This is a great book to get into this topic.

Thanks,
Simon

Autism in the Classroom

• missed diagnosis
• 3 person activity (one writes, the other 2 have a conversation)
• Peers program

ASD Strategies and Programs

• Want to know
• PECS pictures from Boardmaker, Comiclife
• AT pics in Choiceworks app that students can interact with, with voice
• work stations
• creating independence
• practice procedure
• 4 questions
• show box activities
• for skills that have been mastered (to practice)
• another table to learn skills
• baskets and finish bin
• red card says 'check schedule'
• yellow card is 'activity'
• vary the tasks, number of baskets, number of tasks in each basket
• black 'task' - step instructions
• Proloquo2go
• ipad communication app
• icons to make word to communicate
• for independence
• PECS
• picture exchange comm system
• communicating with others e.g. point or say the word
• 6 phases of pecs
• app to send picture to another ipad
• sensory
• room
• sensory processing disorder (youtube, 10 mns)
• stickids
• at Aldershot elem
• STAR program
• requires training from SLP
• tasks - reward - task (don't talk too much)
• 70% activity success is an indication it has been acquired (good for IPP outcome)
• PEERS program
• http://www.semel.ucla.edu/peers
• FBA
• Functional beh Analysis
• beh startegies ( basis for PEBS)
• see dawn r
• Animals
• therapy dogs
• other animals
• sites
• autism helper
• TEACCH

The Rage Cycle

'getting off the bus' ....The bus goes to rage place but at each stop you can get off. When off the student needs to go somewhere (talk through how he got to this stop and get back to where he should be) - the recovery!

Anxiety Curve
make sure that the adult doesn't get emotionally tied to the emotions of the student.

NSCC
Learning styles

• when provided for then retain students
• assess students of learning style
• https://www.educationalplanner.org/students/self-assessments/learning-styles.shtml
• personality dimensions
• once explored and aware of learning style then apply to how you learn
• visual , auditory, kinesthetic, reading-writing
• do we check out when we know our learning style and something is presented in another learning style (but we cannot be limited to only one)
• significant students may need significant styles

Adapted Phys Ed

• intro
• PE is not just gym
• program for fitness, skills and activities
• research
• obesity increase
• health system demands
• activity is often social
• promote goal attainment, success and peer relations
• adaptations
• equipment
• hand cycle
• green machine
• ball and bungee
• noodle tag
• balances
• excercise balls
• transition from injury (physio)
• throwing
• scarfs
• balloon
• weighted objects
• o-ball
• bright visuals to give boundaries
• fitness
• active-passive trainer
• o-ball suspended for tennis
• considerations
• lighter
• velcro
• marked positions
• scop for catching
• instruction
• demo
• timing
• adadp for games (rules, env)
• UDL in sport
• goal ball
• raised tape (equipment)
• environment
• inclusive
• self contained class
• self regulation difficulties in the gym
• other
• special olympics
• awareness of disabled students
• resource (Martin Block - including students with disabs in general PE)

TieNet

This is link to my website and it is about the TieNet process throughout the year.

https://sites.google.com/site/brhsseniorresource/home/the-program-planning-process

But what is TieNet?
It is an online protected site for filing and sharing Student Services information for students in the Annapolis Valley Regional School Board.
The document is great if you would like to see a resource plan for the year.

Simon

Self Regulation

 

• The marshmallow Test video
• Self Regulation and Kindergarten video
• Self R kids scored higher in SATs
• What is it?
• Is SR umbrella containing emotional regulation?
• 3 compenents
• sensory processes
• EF
• emotional regulation
• all 3 componemts need to fucntion properly for SR to work
• SR
• can be taught
• Canada SR Initiative
• stress increases less control of SR
• How does military personnel maintain SR in all situations..or do they?
• program steps
• proactive
• aware
• exercise and feel the heartbeat (awareness of stress level)
• high energy / lack of energy
• change speed
• increase speed
• sleep
• diet
• move around
• reduce speed
• time out
• breathing
• count to 10
• regulate your engine
• through awareness
• ZONES OF REGULATION
• 10% what happens to us
• 90% of our reaction to it (Charles Swindoll)
• In which zone are people in when real things happen?