1. New Graduation Requirements & A-G
Supporting
Home Learning
for All Students
33 teaching strategies to use at home

2. Objectives
Understand the diverse learning needs and preferences of children
Learn strategies teachers use to provide accommodations for learning
Learn ways to accommodate student learning at home and select strategies relevant to your child

3. Draw Your Child Activity
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4. Sample Write or draw how your child likes to learn.
Escriba o dibuje cómo le gusta aprender a su hijo.
Dibuje un retrato

5. The Goal of All Teachers: Meaningful Student Participation
To engage each student at their current level of understanding or ability and ensure that individual progress is made
To make learning meaningful teachers should strive to do whatever it takes to ensure that struggling and advanced learners, students with varied cultural heritages, and children with different background experiences all grow as much as they possibly can each day, each week, and throughout the year.
Additional care must be taken for students with significant challenges, which include difficulties in communication, social interaction, and behaviors, to ensure that these students are able to learn necessary skills and make academic progress within natural settings.

6. Adaptations
Adaptations are any adjustment or modification in curriculum, instruction, environment or materials in order to enhance the participation of a member of the classroom community.
Adaptations are strategies that ALL teachers use to engage all learners.
Adaptations are the umbrella term which include both accommodations, modifications, and providing access.
Parents, as their child’s first, lifelong, and most influential teachers, can also utilize strategies that classroom teachers use and adjust them for use at home.
Parents are the child’s first, lifelong, and most influential teacher. At home, parents can use adaptations too!

7. Please stand if a child in your family has:
Limited reading abilities
Limited writing abilities
Short attention span
Difficulty understanding lectures and discussions
Visual or hearing impairments
Difficulty turning in assignments on time
A tendency to get distracted easily or to lose concentration with noise
Like Me-Type of Activity.  Please stand if you know a child who...

8. Please stand if a child in your family has:
These are all reasons why students need teachers to use strategies;
Difficulty with organization
Difficulty completing assignments
Difficulty handling complex tasks
Difficulty taking tests
Difficulty working with groups
Difficulty controlling own behavior
and why parents need to use home learning strategies too.

9. Let’s look at 33 adaptations used in the classroom
For difficulty following instructions:
Provide oral and written directions
Provide directions that include pictures
Model what you expect from your child
Have student paraphrase directions
Which of these might be used by parents to support learning at home too?

10. Some Adaptations Used in the Classroom
If student has difficulty comprehending text:
Read summary or objectives first
Highlight text
Have students work in small groups
What could these look like at home?
Read titles, summary, and section headings
Underline or highlight text
Child consults with siblings or other family members
What else can we do at home to facilitate reading comprehension?
What else can we do at home to facilitate reading comprehension?

11. Some Adaptations Used in the Classroom
For students with difficulty completing assignments:
Provide individual responsibility checklist
Use timer to define work periods
Teach use of a planner and calendar
How can these be replicated at home?

12. Some Adaptations Used in the Classroom
For students with short attention span:
Adjust length of time for a task
Provide brief break within task
Provide opportunity to stretch and move around
At home, how might you help your child stay focused?

13. Adaptations to the Physical Environment used in the Classroom
If child gets easily distracted or loses concentration:
Keep supplies accessible
Keep work space clear of unrelated materials
Reduce visual distractions in the classroom
Seat student close to teacher or positive role model
Seat student away from windows and doorways
Provide space for independent work of choice
Which of these might be most useful to support your child’s learning?

14. Adaptations to Classroom Schedule
Choices for Independent Reading and Writing
Thumbs up if you like choices. Everybody does.
Grouping for Instruction

15. choices in the classroom:
How teachers provide
choices in the classroom:
How can parents provide choices at home or in the community in multiple areas of interest?
Just as in this teacher’s classroom, it’s important to provide students with opportunities to explore their interests when they’re not in school.

16. Examples of Adaptations of Time Demands
Provide a visual timer
Alert student several minutes before a transition
Increase wait time for responses
Provide additional time to complete a task
Allow student to leave classroom 2-3 minutes early to avoid crowded hallways

17. Communication Adaptations for Students with Speech and Language Needs
Allow students time to express themselves
Minimize classroom noise and distractions
Provide a quiet and separate location for testing
Allow the student to use a visual schedule
Give one and two step directions
Provide extra time to complete assignment
Break assignments into small steps
Although these are more applicable to students with a disability that interferes with speech such as language, speech, and hearing impairments , autism, auditory processing, or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, these seven strategies that teachers use can also be of benefit to other students.
How can these strategies benefit students with or without speech and language needs?

18. From this set of teacher strategies, mark the ones that you can use at home with your child
Of these, which might be suitable for your child?
Which can you use at home to support your child's learning?

19. Let’s return to our form!
Write or draw how your child likes to learn.
Escriba o dibuje cómo le gusta aprender a su hijo.
Dibuje un retrato

20. Tree of Family Support for All Students
Select three strategies to accommodate learning at home that you’ll use with your child
Write them on a leaf pattern and prepare to share out
After sharing out, post it on our tree of family support for all students

21. Objectives 
Understand the diverse learning needs and preferences of children
Learn strategies teachers use to provide accommodations for learning
Learn ways to accommodate student learning at home and select strategies relevant to your child  

22. Your participation is appreciated!
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