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The Pyramid of Learning: Tier 1 Interventions that Benefit All Students

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The Pyramid of Learning: Tier 1 Interventions that Benefit All Students

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Along with the wealth of knowledge shared via the Google Drive by Rachel Fix, OT (you should all have access), one thought has stuck with me: End the day with positive affirmations before we send our littles back out into the world.

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After attending the trauma-informed care presentation, I realized the importance of staying open-minded and being understanding when working with our students. It’s important to view our students’ behaviors from a wider lens and try to gain an understanding of the why behind their actions rather than assuming or jumping to conclusions.

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Attention seeking=connection seeking/needing. Take a couple minutes to keep your cool and talk with the student who’s struggling and give them your undivided attention. Just be present, even if it’s listening to their long irrelevant story, build those connections all year long!

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This was a fantastic presentation that offered so many take-aways including packets already created for us! It’s so easy to forget about the social/emotional skills that play a huge factor in our day-to-day life with our students, especially with all of the other skills that we have to teach. But it’s SO important to address these feelings and emotions in an engaging way, I can’t wait to utilize some books from fellow teachers and get some of my own to address emotions and feelings in my class!

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The students will rise to our expectations!

Even if it may not seem like it everyday or right now, the expectations we set, with our consistency, they will rise! This is extremely important this time of year and especially when we are all tired and think they do not remember, they do and we should continue to help them rise! They might even surprise us :)

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Did you know there is a "brand" icon you can click to access all the FCS colors and theme clip art as well as Tommy Trojan graphics? This presentation allowed us the time to dabble at our own pace and I pulled away some ideas to try later.

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Using 'May Dos' as fast finishers based on content area. This opens up the teacher to pull individual students throughout the day to lighten the load during a packed full RE time!

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There were many templates shared not only with the FCS Trojan logo, but some template shortcuts were shared as well that you can use in the classroom.

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Check out this Presentation designed by Sheila Thomas.

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My big takeaways:

1. When thinking about a student who may be struggling with a concept, ask yourself "why can't they?" Figure out what the disconnect is for your student and meet them there.

2. You do not have to co-teach to co-plan. Communication is crucial for all groups of people, but when making the best decisions for your kiddos you should be seeking collaboration with anyone who knows them just as well as you!

3. Change how they are being taught, not what! No student should be left out of the 'fun topics' because they do not grasp the concept right away. Figure out another way to present the information to them. All kids deserve to have the same chances in their education journey.

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Although many of our students have experienced trauma in their lives, the ways that we build their resiliency impact them just as much (or even more). Factors such as: feeling as though an adult loved them or cared for their well-being, or that rules were established to keep them safe, can positively impact their resiliency and success throughout life. Keeping showing up and show how much you care for the kiddos (and staff members)~ it's making such a difference!

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We did an excercise with being able to look at the following letters for 30 seconds and then remember what we could.

WHI OBIS MES LUM

We then looked at the following letters again for 30 seconds and tried to recall them.

WHO IBM ELS USA

Interesting enough I (and the others in the room) could remember more from the second set because they were in familiar "chunks". This really highlighted how chunking material into chunks connected to a student's schema helped short term memory.

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Students take ownership of their learning and it sparks engagement right away!

The instructor actually had us do a gallery walk with 4 pictures from a Domain that is coming up for us in first grade (we have never taught before). Before you even start teaching the domain the students only spend a few minutes at each picture with a small group sharing what they see or what they notice and then switch to the next picture. After they have seen them all they try to guess what that domain will be about and how all of the pictures connect. She shared tons of graphic organizers you could use as well that are perfect for kindergarten, first or second grade. I think it sounded like a QUICK way to get them really engaged in the topic before you start teaching it!