6/16/2021 # Welcome! Thank you for joining us! The webinar will begin shortly. ### What Report Cards Can Tell You About Essential Skills for Learning Presented by Erik von Hahn, MD ## Webinar Tips Close any applications that use bandwidth or resources on your device. To submit a question, click “Questions” in the webinar panel and type in your question. To minimize the webinar panel, click the orange arrow in the upper left of the panel. If you experience computer audio issues, you can switch to “Phone call” in the “Audio” section of the webinar panel and use the dial‐in information provided. --- 6/16/2021 # Essential Skills for Struggling Learners To provide the right supports for struggling students in grades pre‐K to 12, your school team needs a thorough understanding of the skills that contribute to learning—and a systematic way to help students with a wide range of learning difficulties. 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Let us know what you thought, and you could win a free book! # Certificates ## Certificates of attendance are available for all webinar viewers. --- 6/16/2021 # What Report Cards Can Tell You About Essential Skills for Learning ## Target audience - General education teacher - Expertise of the general education teacher - Other target audiences: - Specialists and the Student Support Team - Students with diverse disabilities in diverse settings - Parents --- 6/16/2021 ## Purpose of Essential Skills for Struggling Learners - Use observations of student performance - To identify the source of difficulty - And develop targets for intervention # Developmental underpinnings of learning success Essential skills for Struggling Learners Essential skills for all Learners --- 6/16/2021 # Organization of the book 11 chapters, 11 developmental domains, 11 Frameworks 1. Vision skills 2. Hearing skills 3. Motor skills 4. Formal Language skills 5. Pragmatic language skills 6. Executive skills 7. Affect and self‐regulation skills 8. Social skills 9. Reading skills 10. Writing skills 11. Math skills # Organization of the book 11 Frameworks - Each framework - Consists of skill sets and skills - Presented in a developmentally logical hierarchy --- 6/16/2021 # Organization of the book 11 Frameworks - Example: - Language skills Framework - Phonological awareness and articulation - Vocabulary - Sentences (morpho‐syntax) - Narrative - Sequences, linking devices, causal chains, episodes --- 6/16/2021 # Organization of the book 11 Frameworks - Example: - Executive Skills - Orientation - Initiation - Shifting cognitive set - Impulse control/ Inhibition - Working memory - Planning - Organization - Meta‐cognition --- 6/16/2021 # Introduction to Essential skills for Struggling learners - Each chapter assists you in the following skills: - Observation - Interpretation - Communication/verification with colleagues - Intervention - Communication with the student --- 6/16/2021 # Goals for this webinar - Goal #1: - Link the sections of a report card to the Frameworks - Goal #2: - Link observable behaviors to skills sets/ skills - Goal #3: - Use Essential Skills for Struggling Learners in your practice - Communication and partnering with specialists - Intervention - Communication and partnering with the student and the student’s family --- # Goal #1: Report cards and Frameworks - Link key sections of report cards to Essential Skills Frameworks --- ## Report cards are mostly all the same 1. English Language Arts 2. Classroom participation behaviors 3. Math 4. Physical education, art, music 5. Content: Social studies, science, technology ## Report cards sections and associated Essential Skills Frameworks - Report card sections 1. English Language Arts 2. Classroom participation 3. Math 5. Content: Social studies, science, technology - Associated Essential Skills Frameworks 1. Reading skills, Writing skills, Formal Language skills 2. Executive skills 3. Math skills 4. See ELA and other frameworks --- 6/16/2021 # Pause for reflection ## Goal #2: Observations and Interpretation - Observe student performance - Identify the struggling learner - Link student performance observations to skill sets and skills --- 6/16/2021 # Identify the Struggling Learner ## Where is this learner struggling? Where is he succeeding? --- # Observations from ELA‐ Foundational skills ## Observations Which framework will you use? - Demonstrates understanding of - Reading skills - Writing skills - Language skills - Executive skills --- # Observations from ELA‐ Reading Literature ## Observations Skill sets and skills - Identifies the main topic and retells key details of the text - Retells stories, including key details, and demonstrates understanding of their central message or lesson - Reading skills - Writing skills - Formal Language skills - Executive skills --- 6/16/2021 # Summary of observations - Performing successfully: - Phonological awareness - Conversations - Struggling with: - Narrative skills - Phonics and fluency - Impulse control and working memory - Arousal (self‐control) ## Goal #3: Essential Skills in practice ### What do you do? Observe now? Intervene Interpret --- 6/16/2021 # Goal #3: Essential Skills in practice - Observe again - Multiple observations, over time, under different circumstances, in different settings - Make targeted observations - Interpret again - Confirm that your interpretation is correct - Discuss with colleagues to verify --- # Goal #3: Essential Skills in practice - Once your interpretations are confirmed, develop interventions - Ask the specialist: What interventions can I offer to improve… - Narrative skills? - Phonics and fluency? - Impulse control and working memory? --- 6/16/2021 ## Goal #3: Essential Skills in practice - After your conversation with the specialist, speak with the student - “I’ve noticed that….” - You struggle with sounding out words - You sometimes show acting before thinking - When you tell a story, it’s not always in the right order - “What I will do with you is….” - Teach you about sounding out words - Help you to do more thinking before acting - Help you to tell stories so that everyone will listen and understand you --- # Questions? --- 6/16/2021 # Certificates ## Certificates of attendance are available for all webinar viewers. # What did you think? ## At the end of the webinar, you’ll be prompted to complete a short survey. 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