Supporting Students with Disabilities: The Modules and Beyond

Experienced with NTI Teachers/ Coaches

Session 4

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Welcome

Learning Targets

• I can determine the appropriateness of accommodations designed to meet students’ needs.

• I can recognize the utility of ELA modules in a variety of instructional settings.

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Four A’s of Intervention

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Introductions and Sharing

• Go around your table introducing yourselves to one another.

• Each person has one minute to share: name role a thought about the 4A’s

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Four A’s of Intervention

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Completing the Puzzle

• Each person needs a puzzle piece from the middle of your table.

• Once you have a piece, read your “profile.” This is just a brief comment about a student

need.

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Make a Puzzle!

• Seek out others in the room with puzzle pieces that fit yours and make a puzzle!

• Once you make your puzzle, this is your new group (there will be triads once puzzles are complete).

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Meeting Your Students’ Needs

• As a group, read the “profiles.”

• Locate your 4A’s Notecatcher p. 86 and do some initial thinking about the student that your puzzle piece represents.

• Collect your thoughts on the side of your notecatcher titled, “Your Puzzle Piece Student.”

• Group discussion

• Add to your notecatacher

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Classroom Observations

• You will watch two classroom videos.

• Locate the Anticipated Acted Notecatcher in your participant notebook p. 94.

• As you watch, make note of when the teacher anticipated and then acted on student need.

• Your notes will prepare your for a small group discussion.

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Video

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Discuss

• At your table, talk about what you saw related to how the teacher anticipated and then acted on student need.

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Video

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Discuss

• At your table, talk about what you saw related to how the teacher anticipated and then acted on student need.

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Analyze and Assess

• Think about the 4A’s. What do you want to analyze and assess from these videos?

• Discuss in groups

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Break!

• When you return from break, join your puzzle piece group again.

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Supporting ALL Students

• Return to your 4A’s Notecatcher on p. 86 and fill in any new thinking on the side titled, “your thinking about meeting the needs of ALL students.”

• While you are individually reflecting, refer to yesterday’s Continuum of Interventions document.

• Next, discuss as a group.

• Last, add more thinking to your notecatcher.

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Share Out

• With the whole group, share your group’s: Comments Clarifications

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Resource

• Locate the spiral bound packet titled: Common Core Aligned Interventions for Adolescent Readers.

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Get to Know the Resource

• Step 1: Look through the materials for the “gist.” (10 min)

• Step 2: Read the “overview” (5 min)

• Step 3: Select a tabbed section that you want to look at more closely. Track your thinking on the Notice, wonder and connect Notecatcher. (15 min) 

• Step 4: Synthesize: Discuss how these materials can be used school to support all students. Create a visual of this synthesis (15 min)

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Clarification

• What clarifications are needed, related to this resource, in order for you to feel comfortable sharing it with colleagues and/or teachers?

• Share your questions with the large group.

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Action Plan

• Locate: Action Plan: July 2014 Network Team Institute on p.X

• Work independently on your action plan. Include documents or resources that you have been introduced to in this session (10 min)

• Consider: First, what adjustments can you make to your plan? Next, what is your new thinking? Finally, discuss with a partner or meet with your

school group to apply the learning of this session to the action plan.

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Learning Targets

• I can determine the appropriateness of accommodations designed to meet students’ needs.

• I can recognize the utility of ELA modules in a variety of instructional settings.

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Synthesis

• Look back at your puzzle piece. In what ways are you better equipped to support this student?

• Turn and talk to a partner. (2 min)

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The End Goal

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