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All students with special needs are unique. Their needs may be recognized by teacher and parent observations and/or assessment by a certified professional. Some students may have their needs formally identified as an exceptionality through an Identification Placement and Review Committee (IPRC). Regardless of the manner by which needs are determined, teachers and school teams can implement strategies as soon as a student's need is realized. It is important to document and assess the effectiveness of strategies employed and revise them in order to achieve success.

The teaching strategies and resources on this website have been organized along three main lines. Related definitions, characteristics and resources are included for each area:

Student Needs
Formal Exceptionalities Determined by IPRC
Diagnosed Medical/Psychological Conditions

You can access all of our teaching strategies and resources pages using the coloured markers below.

* Just click on the word SHOW at the end of each marker. You can show or hide the topics in more than one section at a time.

* Move your mouse over the various topics to see the definitions for each.

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Teaching Strategies for Students with Special Needs

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All students with special needs are unique. Their needs may be recognized by teacher and parent observations and/or assessment by a certified professional. Some students may have their needs formally identified as an exceptionality through an Identification Placement and Review Committee (IPRC).

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PBIS World | A Complete Tier 1 Through Tier 3 Positive Behavior Interventions & Supports System

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PBIS World is in no way affiliated, associated, or connected with any other website, entity, organization, or federal, state, local, or other government agency, department, program, policy, organization, or initiative.

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Educational practices that are flexible and responsive to the strengths and needs of individual students create inclusive learning experiences that ensure all students are successful.

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These sample templates can be used for students identified with special education needs. The use of these templates is optional.

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Singer-songwriter Raffi, along with being known as "the most popular children's singer in the English-speaking world" (The Washington Post), is renowned for his advocacy on behalf of children. He has released a new song that can help children and adults deal in a very simple way with the stresses and anxieties of everyday life.

"Take A Breath" (The Self-Reg Song) is both tuneful and calming, and provides simple ways, such as breathing slowly in and out, to feel better when feelings are beginning to overwhelm. Teachers and parents alike will find it helpful when children feel stress.

Says Raffi, "Self-regulation is the awareness of anxiety and our ability to regain a calm centre. Since anxiety constrains intelligence, it's important for young and old to learn simple self-reg ways to regain balance. I wrote "Take A Breath" to inspire a Self-Reg response in all who hear it."

Self-Reg expert, Dr. Stuart Shanker - a Raffi colleague and member of his Child Honouring advisory council-says, " In the Shanker household, self-regulation meant listening to Raffi: and not just for the children!" Dr. Shanker leads The MEHRIT Centre, an organization working with early childhood programs, schools, and communities across Canada and beyond to ground living and learning in self-regulation. "Self-Reg is the ability to deal effectively with stress in all the many forms a child encounters-physical, emotional, cognitive, social, and prosocial-then recover from the energy expenditure involved and restore the energy expended. Raffi's song will certainly help," says Shanker.

The song is available for streaming above or on SoundCloud, and can be downloaded for free from the Centre for Child Honouring site as well as on this page. There are also "Take A Breath" posters available here.

Child-Honouring Graphics

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Raffi's "Take A Breath" (The Self-Reg Song) Can Help Children Deal with Stress Download Song Singer-songwriter Raffi, along with being known as "the most popular children's singer in the English-speaking world" (The Washington Post), is renowned for his advocacy on behalf of children.

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Home - Alberta Regional Professional Development Resources

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The resources found on this site were developed by ARPDC as a result of grants from Alberta Education to support implementation.

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PBISWorld.com Tier 3 Positive Behavior Intervention And Support of Social Stories

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PBISWorld Tier 3 interventions are highly targeted and completely individualized behavior strategies specific to each student's behaviors and needs. Social Stories are very useful for teaching students specific social normative behaviors, routines, schedules, expectations, socialization, peer interactions, greetings, social scripts, etc.

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Education Endowment Foundation (UK) Toolkit - An accessible summary of the international evidence on teaching 5-16 year-olds Guidance Reports - Clear and actionable recommendations for teachers on a range of high-priority issues, based on the best available evidence Promising Projects - EEF funded projects which have shown promising results when trialled

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Alberta Education Medical Information for Teachers 

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Alberta Education Medical Information for Teachers 

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Understanding medical and disability implications is essential for getting to know students, planning effective instruction and providing the right level of classroom support. The critical information is not necessarily what the medical conditions or disabilities are, but rather how they impact a student's learning, social/emotional behaviour and the classroom environment.

Table of Contents

To find strategies that teachers can use as a starting point to inform their classroom practice, and better support students with specific medical conditions and disabilities, select from the list below. This information is organized around:

planning and awareness

instruction

social and emotional well-being.

Download the entire Medical/Disability Information for Classroom Teachers resource in PDF format

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Understanding Medical and Disability Information

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Understanding medical and disability implications is essential for getting to know students, planning effective instruction and providing the right level of classroom support. The critical information is not necessarily what the medical conditions or disabilities are, but rather how they impact a student's learning, social/emotional behaviour and the classroom environment.

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The starting point of instruction for all students in Alberta is the programs of study. The intentional use of instructional strategies benefits students and provides teachers with options for programming. Effective strategy instruction includes scaffolding information to increase understanding.

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Recommended by Camrose Pediatric Specialty Clinic

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pencilmation funny "songs for kids" "social skills" "family friendly" pencilmations "animations for kids" friendship "notebook babies" pencilmations

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Welcome to the famous teacher-created "Notebook Babies". Creating quality family animation and music since 2008! If you're looking for kid-safe and family-friendly YouTube cartoons, pencilmations, and songs, you've come to the right place! Creator, Tony Dusko, is a certified elementary teacher with over 20 years of classroom teaching experience!