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Professional Development Literacy Initiatives for Students with Severe Disabilities Paula Marshall FDLRS Miccosukee FASD Fall Leadership Conference September 21, 2010 Session 8

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Professional Development Literacy Initiatives for Students with Severe Disabilities. Paula Marshall FDLRS Miccosukee FASD Fall Leadership Conference September 21, 2010. Session 8. No Child Left Behind Act of 2001…. 2014 every child is supposed to test on grade level in reading and math. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Professional Development Literacy Initiatives for Students with Severe Disabilities

Paula MarshallFDLRS Miccosukee

FASD Fall Leadership ConferenceSeptember 21, 2010

Session 8

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No Child Left Behind Act of 2001…

• 2014 every child is supposed to test on grade level in reading and math.

• What about our children with significant disabilities?

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Past (and still present) Situations

• University training had been focused on functional skills

• First Sunshine State Standards minimally addressed literacy

• Lack of research• Minimal expectations for these

learners• Advocacy?

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Augmentative Communication and Assistive Educational Technology…to the rescue!!

• FDLRS Technology Services (ATEN)–Linda Burkhart–Kelly Fonner

• Others–Pati King-DeBaun–Carolyn Musslewhite

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Karen Erickson, Ph.D. Center for Literacy and Disability Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

A Bit of… History…

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CARD Summer Institutes

Dr. Karen EricksonCenter for Literacy

Studies UNC-Chapel Hill

FDLRS Technology Coordinatin

gUnits (ATEN)

• Wikispace• Vodcasts• Website links• Connect

SPRINGS Miccosukee

PAEC WESTGATE

Pasco CountySummer 2010

Literacy in

ACC

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2nd Annual Florida Literacy Camp, December 2007

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Collaboration is Key!

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We Look at the Research…

by Karen Erickson and

David Koppenhaver

by Patricia Cunningham,

Dorothy Hall andCheryl Sigmon

by June E. Downing

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Four Blocks Framework

Developed in 1989-91 by Patricia Cunningham, Dorothy Hall & Margaret Defee

First Implemented in 1st-3rd grade classes in North Carolina

Recently expanded to include models for:Kindergarten classes – “Building Blocks”4th – 6th grade classes – “Big Blocks”

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Four Blocks Framework

•Balanced Literacy Approach• 90 minute reading block•Working with Words…letters, sounds, sight words, word families (Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, handwriting)•Self-Selected Reading… Shared Reading•Shared Reading…Guided Reading•Writing

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Children With Disabilities: Reading & Writing the Four Blocks WayDeveloped by Karen Erickson & David

Koppenhaver

• Implemented at the Center for Literacy & Disability Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill– Students with Communication

Disorders– Students with Moderate – Severe

Cognitive Impairments– Students with Learning Disabilities

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Adapting the Four Block Model for Students with Disabilities

• Disability type or label does not provide instructional information

• Consider the areas of significant difference:– Communication– Cognition– Physical abilities– Senses (vision/hearing)– Affect– Attention

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Adapting the Four Block Model for Students with Disabilities

• Adapt only in the areas of need.• Try to develop adaptations that do not significantly change the objective of the

activity.• Multi-level materials are available in each block.• Use assistive technology as a tool to support students in Four Block

activities.

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• Literacy is for everyone and has many different forms

• Federal mandates support literacy for everyone

• Several barriers can be overcome concerning literacy instruction for students with severe disabilities

• Literacy skills enhance ones quality of life in many ways.

• Literacy instruction is as important for students with significant disabilities as it is for everyone else

Beliefs…

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Time to test the waters…

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7 Critical qualities of professional development (Fogarty & Pete, 2007)

1. Sustained and implemented over time

2. Job embedded3. Collegial learning communities4. Interactive and engaging5. Integrated (web, F2F, text, video)6. Results oriented, data and goal

driven7. Practical, hands on

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•Time to practice skills•Time to share ideas: group brainstorming•Ending sessions with products;

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Adult Learners want…•Models and samples, stories and case studies•Time to practice skills•Time to share ideas: group brainstorming•Self reflection time•End Sessions with a product•Time to ask questions•Answers to questions•Real life contexts•Choice of activities: differentiation•Choice of supports: live demo, video, quickguide, hands-on•Resources such as articles, websites

• Reed, Kaplan & Bowser, 2009

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Choice of Activities… differentiation

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Self reflection time

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Welcome to the Center for Literacy and Disability Studies — Department of Allied Health Sciences - UNC School of Medicine

Models and samples, stories and case studies

Real life contexts

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Real Life Contexts

• Add class expamples

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Case Studies

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Resources such as articles, websites

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Learning from Karen(face-to-face)

• CARD Conferences in Gainesville and other spots in state

• Fall 05. Jan 06. March 07 Everhart Tallahassee project

• April 08 Margaret K. Lewis Panama City

• Sept 08 December 08 Pensacola

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Present Situation…Paradigm shifts in teacher training

• Sage on stage has shifted to collaborative active learning

• Platforms include– F2F– Distance– On-demand training– Professional Learning Communities– Coaching/mentoring

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Connecting With Karen

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National Staff Development Council

• The council recommends that states, school districts, and individual schools devote at least 30% of their technology budgets to teacher development and initiating teacher learning simultaneously with purchase of the technology.

• Quality staff development extends beyond once-a-year training events to include generous amounts of at-the-elbow classroom coaching as a regular feature of teachers’ work lives. It also includes frequent opportunities for teachers to share their technology-based practices with colleagues.

• NSDC recommends “25% of PD time be devoted to learning and collaborating with colleagues” (NSDC, 200t)

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Benefits of Technology in Education

• Harold Wenglinsky (1998) analyzed data from the 1996 National Assessment for Education Progress– The study found that students of teachers who had

received any kind of staff development in computer technology during the past five years outperformed students whose teachers had no training.

– Schools in which teachers had professional development and used computers to teach-higher order skills also enjoyed lower student absenteeism and higher teacher morals.

Dennis Sparks (Feb 1999) Plugging educators into technology www.NSDC.org, retrieved on October21 2008.

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Whole to Part Model

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The NEW PD

• Paradigm shift in staff development• Collaborative learning communities• Cloud Technology/Web 2.0• Contemporary training tools

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We are on our own!

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Present Situation

• Access points correlate with Gen. Ed SSS.

• Literacy is addressed• Grass roots model of professional

development spreading• Need a systemic and systematic

delivery model of professional development

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Plugging Educators into Technology (Sparks 2006)

• “Technology’s contribution to student learning depends on school leaders wise investment in teachers’ knowledge and technology and skills. Without that investment you might as well leave the hardware in its box.”

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Tech Integration

• “…effective integration of technology has more to do with teaching pedagogy, and has little to do with technology itself. The author further contends that in too many schools we the see the use of “technology “ with an absence of relationship to instructional objectives and learning outcomes.”

Creighton, T (2003) Principal Technology Leader. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

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