Working SMART 45 Teaching Strategies in 60 Minutes Shared by Donna McNear donna.mcnear@gmail.com

About Presenter Technical assistance Program improvement Donna McNear, MA, COMS Independent Consultant Technical assistance Program improvement Instructional coach Mentor Teacher trainer Adjunct faculty UMASS Boston Activist Activist thinking, activist voice

Objectives Identify strategies to improve effective teaching Implement strategies to improve student results Increase collaborative strategies with parents and all team members

About Presentation Sharing “gold nuggets” Blind/Braille Low Vision Additional Disabilities All ages All content All environments

Results focused Teaching effectively Systematically Working SMART Systematically Meaningful to students & families Arranged collaboratively Results focused Teaching effectively

Competing priorities for our time with children Informing Our Work Competing priorities for our time with children

Gold Nuggets Accomplished teachers focus on instruction They are able to describe what they teach, where they teach, how the teach, why they teach

Instructional Coaching Effective Instruction Strategy #1 Reflective Practice Instructional Coaching Collaboration Effective Instruction Be systematic with an overall approach to instruction

Agenda Plan Instruction Manage Instruction Deliver Instruction Evaluate Instruction

Instructional Planning Tool More than a “handout”

Overall Instructional Strategies

Strategy #2 Increase frequency

Increase Variety Strategy #3 Variety of presentation methods Variety of materials Variety of formats

Strategy #4 Use “Quick Tasks”

Physical environment: Plan with detail

Strategy #5 Begin with furniture

Create student access to materials Strategy #6 Create student access to materials

Strategy #7 Consider proximity

Instructional Variables

Evolve: Initial to mastery Strategy #8 “Supportive” Instruction Evolve: Initial to mastery

Think “Levels of Instruction” Strategy #9 Think “Levels of Instruction”

Provide independent practice Strategy #10 Provide independent practice Profide

Use procedures & routines Strategy #11 Use procedures & routines Profide

Strategy #12 Provide a model Profide

Strategy #13 Use Task analysis Find the “sweet spot” Profide

Strategy #14 Use incentives Profide

Use explicit praise Limit question asking Use "Tell me" “show me” Strategy #15 Use varied prompts Use explicit praise Limit question asking Use "Tell me" “show me”

Create turn-taking opportunities Strategy #16 Create turn-taking opportunities

About blind/braille

Focus on what fits under fingertips Strategy #17 Tactile discrimination Focus on what fits under fingertips Profide

Strategy #18 Poster prompts Profide

Strategy #19 Teach copying Profide

Strategy #20 Anchor materials

About low vision

Begin accommodations early Strategy #21 Begin accommodations early

Think multiple solutions Strategy #22 Think multiple solutions

Provide specialized instruction Strategy #23 Provide specialized instruction

Additional learning challenges

Strategy #24 Highly preferred

Individualize content Strategy #25 Individualize content

Provide intensive training supports Strategy #26 Provide intensive training supports

Results focused Teaching effectively Systematically Working SMART: Review Systematically Meaningful to students & families Arranged collaboratively Results focused Teaching effectively

Agenda Plan Instruction Manage Instruction Deliver Instruction Evaluate Instruction

Evaluate accuracy/detail Strategy #27 Evaluate accuracy/detail

Think formative and summative Strategy #28 Think formative and summative

Strategy #29 Variety of Contexts Non- academics Home Reading & writing in… ELA Math Non- academics Home

Collect data systematically Strategy #30 Data Wednesday Collect data systematically

Strategy #31 Adjust instruction

Agenda Plan Instruction Manage Instruction Deliver Instruction Evaluate Instruction

Apply integrated instruction Strategy #32 Apply integrated instruction

Strategy #33 Use rubrics

Use curriculum as a foundation Strategy #34 Use curriculum as a foundation

Strategy #35 Plan access/ accommodations

Strategy #36 Plan participation

Plan for collaboration Strategy #37 Plan for collaboration

Strategy #38 Materials “Make Two”

Be prepared for “real-time” instruction Strategy #39 Be prepared for “real-time” instruction

Agenda Plan Instruction Manage Instruction Deliver Instruction Evaluate Instruction

Consider all environments all subjects Strategy #40 Consider all environments all subjects

Strategy #41 Vary schedule

Strategy #42 “Chunk” for change

Peer supports Multi-age Strategy #43 Peer supports Multi-age

Community- based “touch tours” Strategy #44 Community- based “touch tours”

Instructional Planning Strategy #45 Instructional Planning Tool Make it yours

Results focused Teaching effectively Systematically Working SMART: Review Systematically Meaningful to students & families Arranged collaboratively Results focused Teaching effectively

Thank You Donna McNear donna.mcnear@gmail.com