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Reaching and Teaching the Whole Child Forum

Children’s Health CouncilA professional development site for

Presenters:

Karen Grites, M.S. Educational Specialist and Director of Center for Community Education

Allison Berry, M.A.Resource Teacher Theuerkauf Elementary School

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All Kinds of Minds and Schools Attuned®

In 1995 All Kinds of Minds was co-founded by Dr. Mel Levine and Charles Schwab with a mission to enhance the lives of children with learning differences.

In 1996 The Children’s Health Council (CHC) in Palo Alto became one of 7 nationally approved regional training sites to deliver the Schools Attuned® program. This program equips regular educators with knowledge of brain research and learning to improve their teaching and support of struggling students

>Attention>Temporal Sequential Processing>Spatial Ordering>Memory>Language>Neuromotor functioning>Social Cognition>Higher Order Cognition

Neurodevelopmental Constructs

Let’s try this activity

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(please note: the adult human mind is referenced, children’s acquisition of reading skills are not necessarily implicated here)

Research about learning• Studying right before going to sleep helps

students consolidate information most efficiently in memory

• The tripod pencil grasp may not be the best grip for graphomotor control for all students- holding a pencil between the 2nd and 3rd fingers was successfully used in Germany

• Focus objects can be helpful to students who struggle with attention

Learning about learning

Short Term

Active Working

Long Term: Consolidation and Access

Memory

>In a moment I am going to show you a list of words for you to remember.

>On the inside cover of your handout, be ready to write the list of words on the next frame.

>No pencils until after the slide is removed!>Ready?

Short Term Memory

DIGEST HAWKING

LAUNCHCOMMUNITY

FROCK PURSUIT

VANDALISM

DIGEST HAWKING

LAUNCHCOMMUNITY

FROCK PURSUIT

VANDALISM

Exposure

Saliency Determination

Recoding

Dept/Detail of Processing

The Role of Short Term Memory

Short Term

>What is the role of short term memory in your reading program, math program or writing instruction?

Reflections of Practice Question

Tier 1: 80 - 85% of struggling students

Tier 2: 10 - 12%

Academics Behavior

school wide structure & system

Functional Behavior Analysis counselors, psychs, behaviorist

Behavior support plans - counselors, psychs, interv. team

Strategic classroom instructionDifferentiation, small groups

Intensive instructionLanguage!, High Point, Math workshop, summer school

Most IntensiveSpecial education staff

- PBISTier 3: 3 - 5%

Student Learning PartnershipSmall group interventions, small group demystifications

Schools Attuned supports through:

Lesson plan Analysis, Subject Analysis, Learning about Learning

Tier 2

Academics Behavior - PBISTier 3

Tier 1

Attuning A Student

>Allkindsofminds.org website provides many important parent resources: articles, case studies, simulations and book excerpts

>The learningbase offers public domain information about strategies for struggling learners

Online Resources

> The Schools Attuned Program embraces that struggling students can respond to instruction once their strengths, weaknesses, and needs are understood through a carefully-managed process in their classrooms.

> The Schools Attuned Program is focused on supporting the ways that students in all classrooms respond to instruction. RtI is supported across all tiers with Schools Attuned.

> The Schools Attuned Program equips educators with a step by step problem solving process by arming them with knowledge, skills and tools to address interventions as student needs increase

Schools Attuned