by Nora Madsen | Mar 25, 2019 | Special Education
SETSS is a uniquely useful setting to support students with developing independence. Students with disabilities at our school often receive SETSS because of a lack of executive functioning skills. It is my job as the SETSS provider to help identify the barriers in...
by Alex Zaugg | Mar 25, 2019 | Special Education
We as teachers are often left with more questions than answers when students with disabilities are not able to produce what is expected during project work time. In an ideal world, high school students should be able to use all available resources, tools, and...
by Nora Madsen | Mar 25, 2019 | Special Education, Special Education PoP
Many teenagers struggle to do academic work independently; this is a skill they must be taught. Executive functioning, a necessary component for independent work, encompasses a wide range of skills including organization, planning, working memory, sustained focus and...
by Daniel August | Mar 24, 2019 | 11/12th Grade, Mathematics, Personal Authenticity, Uncategorized
by Rosa Moshi | Mar 24, 2019 | 9/10th Grade, Authenticity to the Discipline, Science, Uncategorized
I’m teaching the same microbiology class as last semester. Last semester, I worked on designing my second unit project in a way that would make it personally authentic for students. This semester, I want to revise my third unit project. In the third unit, students...
by Maurice Blackmon | Mar 21, 2019 | 9/10th Grade, Social Studies
Are you with me? It’s the question I pose throughout just about all of my lessons. It’s what I ask students when they come in before school for one-on-one tutoring. It’s the question that will occasionally show up on a worksheet or in a powerpoint...
