Organize your resource room and programs to have a smooth year. Set up your classroom, implement programs / routines and monitor student progress. Being consistent and ready throughout the year can make your life as a teacher easier, and allows the students to anticipate what they will be learning. This takes so much stress away from children who have difficulty learning.
Yay! You taught resource one full school-year and now it is time to wrap things up. Read on to learn about an example timeline and tasks that should be complete by the end of the school year in order to have data prepped and ready to go for next year. This simple to do list …
Looking for an effective elementary literacy assessment guide with free screeners school-wide? I have searched (and found) an effective way to assess every student in school for reading. Screen for tier 1, tier 2 and tier 3 reading challenges. My criteria: a systematic, accurate and realistic recipe. If you are new to my blog, I …
Need an effective number assessment that could help you effectively plan your numeracy resource groups in Kinder and first grade? Administering a quick number test to all of the children can help you pinpoint specific difficulties. In turn, similar difficulties are grouped together. Numeracy Assessment Test Being able to understand and manipulate numbers – having …
If you want to know more about quick phonics assessments and how to pinpoint the students’ reading difficulty to guide your teaching and form small group interventions, then read on! Words are broken down into individual phonemes or sounds, which you should teach in a sequential order for students to learn to read. There are …
Have that one (or several) students in your class or small group that need explicit instruction and motivation on how to behave? Do they need to consciously think about their actions and see them visually written down in the form of goals? You may need to track and monitor student behaviour to help them improve. …
Organizing and keeping track of student academic information and progress doesn’t have to be a time-consuming task. Effectively setting up and updating student files can lead to a smooth year. Follow these steps to set up working student files that can be accessed quickly for that last minute meeting, and shared with a new team …
Starting a new year can be hectic, and even more so if it is your first year teaching resource. I’ve compiled a back-to-school to do list for resource teachers or any teacher wanting to build diagnostic portfolio for their children. Set Up a Filing System Prepare Your Assessments Make copies and familiarize yourself with the …
Session 1: Phonemic Awareness / Phonics I begin every session with a quick 2 mins of having each student read our weekly 5 sight words and orally use them in a sentence. Once this short brain exercise is complete, I move on to the vocabulary part. Introduce your next menu words from the SoundPrints program. This …
Read about how I set up my resource room. Even though my classroom is small, I maximized the space to make it functional and effective for teaching. I usually work with 5 students at a time, hence the 5 grey chairs around the circular table. I love that I have a whiteboard behind where I …