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1 Working SMART 45 Teaching Strategies in 60 Minutes
Shared by Donna McNear

2 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9 Agenda Plan Instruction Manage Instruction Deliver Instruction
Evaluate Instruction

10 Instructional Planning Tool
More than a “handout”

11 Overall Instructional Strategies

12 Strategy #2 Increase frequency

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

14 Strategy #4 Use “Quick Tasks”

15 Physical environment: Plan with detail

16 Strategy #5 Begin with furniture

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

18 Strategy #7 Consider proximity

19 Instructional Variables

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

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

22 Provide independent practice
Strategy #10 Provide independent practice Profide

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

24 Strategy #12 Provide a model Profide

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

26 Strategy #14 Use incentives Profide

27 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”

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

29 About blind/braille

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

31 Strategy #18 Poster prompts Profide

32 Strategy #19 Teach copying Profide

33 Strategy #20 Anchor materials

34 About low vision

35 Begin accommodations early
Strategy #21 Begin accommodations early

36 Think multiple solutions
Strategy #22 Think multiple solutions

37 Provide specialized instruction
Strategy #23 Provide specialized instruction

38 Additional learning challenges

39 Strategy #24 Highly preferred

40 Individualize content
Strategy #25 Individualize content

41 Provide intensive training supports
Strategy #26 Provide intensive training supports

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

43 Agenda Plan Instruction Manage Instruction Deliver Instruction
Evaluate Instruction

44 Evaluate accuracy/detail
Strategy #27 Evaluate accuracy/detail

45 Think formative and summative
Strategy #28 Think formative and summative

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

47 Collect data systematically
Strategy #30 Data Wednesday Collect data systematically

48 Strategy #31 Adjust instruction

49 Agenda Plan Instruction Manage Instruction Deliver Instruction
Evaluate Instruction

50 Apply integrated instruction
Strategy #32 Apply integrated instruction

51 Strategy #33 Use rubrics

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

53 Strategy #35 Plan access/ accommodations

54 Strategy #36 Plan participation

55 Plan for collaboration
Strategy #37 Plan for collaboration

56 Strategy #38 Materials “Make Two”

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

58 Agenda Plan Instruction Manage Instruction Deliver Instruction
Evaluate Instruction

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

60 Strategy #41 Vary schedule

61 Strategy #42 “Chunk” for change

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

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

64 Instructional Planning
Strategy #45 Instructional Planning Tool Make it yours

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

66 Thank You Donna McNear


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