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Communication boards can be helpful for students with communication needs. They provide the ability to communicate visually rather than verbally.

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Since some students with speech/language impairments have difficulties understanding spoken language oral presentations can pose a problem. Offering them completed outlines of the lesson can help facilitate their learning.

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Students with speech/language impairments may have difficulties using words properly or coming up with the right words. Using an online dictionary or thesaurus would help students spell and use words correctly.

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Engaging ODD students and the keeping them engaged can be tricky at times. Knowing which students work well or not well with can reduce the number of oppositional events during group work. I use the Team Shake app to help create teams in my classes. The great part about this tool is you can customize students so that they cannot be put in groups with certain students. This is a great way to make sure that an ODD student is with others that they work well with.

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Team Shake provides a technological and environmentally friendly way to choose teams. Use it for board games, sporting events, tournaments, school projects or anytime groups are required. Team Shak…

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Developing a relationship with students with ODD is essential to understanding their likes and dislikes. Finding out their favored way to learn, whether it's visually, through audio, kinesthetically, aural, verbal, etc., you can make sure you have your information ready to present to the student in a way that appeals to them. This in turn can help them stay on task an engaged in learning. Positive behavior plans go along with on-task behavior being rewarded.

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Students with Oppositional Defiant Disorder need to be given choice in order to help them feel valued and feel that they have control over their environment. Sometimes being given a choice of format for an assignment works to give them that control. Good Suite has lots of different assignment presentation tools that can help students complete assignments in a way that fit them.

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Provide students with multiple ways to receive directions as they may need repetitive or varying methods. Creating a video with directions can also assist students that are absent.

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Many students struggle with presentations. Sometimes, these can even be debilitating. Offering students a chance to "present" digitally rather than being put on the spot can help hold them accountable yet decrease anxiety. Flipgrid is a free way for students to create and share short videos.

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Create self-check behavior checklists for students to manage time and chunk assignments

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Auditory Processing Disorder

The use of Google Classroom can be helpful for students with APD because they struggle with the spoken language and can better express their learning through writing their assignments.

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What is Google Classroom?

Google Classroom has become a must-have tool for teachers. This free teaching resource website allows educators to assign work, track progress, and communicate with students and parents online.

Google Classroom stands out from other learning management systems or student information platforms as it combines all G Suites tools in an intuitive interface for its users. Google Classroom combines many of the most popular Google products to help teachers organise their lessons and make resources available for their students.

The great thing about Google Classroom is that all of its perks, such as organizing and managing online content and assignments, providing a safe environment for both online facilitators and learners to communicate with each other, etc., are absolutely for free.

How to use Google Classroom?

1. eLearning professionals can deliver documents to their students directly, as well as distribute files to other online collaborators, such as eLearning content creators.

2. Online facilitators can share links to online resources, such as videos, articles and sites, which can serve as supplementary eLearning tools.

3. Data can be collected from online learners, making it easy to receive learner feedback and personal information that can be used to improve the overall eLearning experience.

4. Learners can provide feedback to their peers by commenting on assignments and working collaboratively on assignments. They can also work together or research tasks through the Google Classroom app.

Google Classroom has options for teachers to send out updates about students' classwork, but it doesn't offer the level of communication you'll find in tools like Seesaw, ClassDojo, or Remind.

Google Classroom even features an assignments page, where students can view upcoming deadlines in order to stay on track. Likewise, online facilitators have the power to quickly and conveniently view who has completed each assignment and offer constructive feedback immediately.

Google users can also integrate their Google Docs and Google Drive accounts into its system to store their files in a cloud.

How can Google Classroom support differentiation in the classroom?

Google Classroom can help streamline formative assessment, which is important in helping students who might need more support or extra challenges. For example, you can use the platform to quickly create, distribute, and collect digital exit tickets or auto-graded assessments. In a way, Google Classroom can make it easier and faster to gather regular feedback on your students' progress. Of course, there are plenty of other formative assessment tools out there, many of which now offer integrations with Google Classroom.

Is Google Classroom an LMS?

To some extent, whether or not Google Classroom is an LMS depends upon which features of an LMS you want. It has some of the features of an LMS, particularly in regards to the organisation of classroom materials and student work.

Whether you are happy to use Google Classroom in place of an LMS will depend upon which features of an LMS you are happy to forgo. Some schools use a dedicated LMS alongside Google Classroom while others are happy just to use one or the other.

The best advice is to look at the features of dedicated LMS software and decide whether they would repay its cost in terms of teacher workload savings, student achievement, or parental engagement. Aside from an investment in set-up time, Google Classroom is free for schools so a valid strategy is to start with that and see if you need any more.

Who can use Google Classroom?

Anyone can use Google Classroom. Workplace trainers, educators of all types, and students of all subjects can use the tools. For schools, Google Classroom is free.

How do teachers use Google Classroom?

Google Classroom for communication

Students and teachers can communicate privately. Teachers can send group reminders, feedback to students about assignments, and email reports to parents. Google Classroom does not have a chat feature built into it but such a facility can be run alongside it using one of Google's other tools. Even if you do limit or disable chat facilities, it is possible for children to communicate with each other using a shared document.

Google Classroom Stream is a place where each student and the teacher can post messages for viewing by all members of the class.

Google Classroom for administration

Teachers can organise their teaching materials and make them available to students in Google Classroom. Students can complete tasks and submit work to their teachers using Google Classroom.

Google Classroom for organisation

The tools in Google Classroom work well together and with other Google tools such as Calendar, Hangouts or Meet. Calendar helps teachers keep track of issued assignments and students to always know the deadline dates. The other two tools allow greater collaboration between students.

Google Classroom for assessment

Self-marking quizzes can be designed and set by teachers. Other apps, third-party browser add-ons, and teaching platforms can work alongside Google Classroom to provide assessment in different forms. It is in assessment tasks that Google Classroom most noticeably falls behind true LMS platforms as it does not have natively the wealth of options and features that you might find in a true LMS.

How do I set up my Google Classroom?

Teachers who want to use Google Classroom must ensure that their school has signed up for G Suite for Education, which is free. This ensures that schools have the tools to set privacy and security options for their students. It is possible to bypass this as not all classes using Google Classroom are of school age.

Teachers in schools, however, would be breaking Google's terms and conditions and leaving children less protected online, if they did this. Apart from some initial administration, there is no reason to bypass the G Suite for Education requirement and many advantages to having it in a school.

How to invite students to Google Classroom?

Google Classroom can be used by students wherever they are using any device with a modern web browser. They need to have a Google account that can either be a personal one or one created by the school. Particularly for younger children, the latter is the most sensible as it lets school administrators take more control of privacy and security settings.

Students connect their accounts to a class using a code provided by the teacher of that class. Teachers can find this code under the title of their class on its main page. Most of the time, teachers will just issue an invite by email from their dashboard as this is easier for all involved.

How to join a Google Classroom?

Students need only go to classroom.google.com to log in. The first time they do so for a particular class, they will need the code issued to them by their teacher.

The tools and facilities open to students will have been defined by the teacher who is administering the Google Classroom. The same student may have different facilities available in each Google Classroom of which they are a member.

What is Google doing with my students' data? Should I be worried about privacy?

Google is a company which derives value from the data it obtains from its users, so parents and teachers are right to consider how they use its products with children. Many countries have restrictions on how apps aimed at children can gather and use data. Google Classroom is expected to respect these rules.

Teachers should remember that, although they may use other Google tools alongside Google Classroom, they are not necessarily a part of it and so do not need to follow the same rules. For example, general-audience youTube channels are not under the same restrictions and can harvest data and use it, for example, to serve targeted advertisements.

Is Google Classroom free?

Google Classroom is free of cost but this should not be your only consideration.

A dedicated LMS may offer features that, in your case, would more than repay its cost in time or efficiency savings.

Schools and teachers should also remember that using Google Classroom is embedding its brand and use in children's minds as forcefully as any direct advertising. Companies want to encourage children to become lifelong users of their products - Google Classroom is one way that Google is doing this. This is not to criticise either the company or the schools that make use of its powerful and useful products but it is something that schools should consider.

How can families and parents stay in the loop with Google Classroom?

Parents cannot directly access data about their children held in Google Classroom. However, teachers generate reports in Google Classroom for parents. These are a convenient and efficient way to provide parents with frequent updates by email.

How can I make Google Classroom more engaging and interactive for my students?

Teachers aren't restricted just to the core tools of Google Classroom. They can link to resources from across the internet such as websites and videos. Student submissions do not need to be only in text using the Google Docs software. Instead, they can upload video, audio, and photographic submissions.

Collaborative work between students can be facilitated using the Google Classroom tools such as Streams or other tools, such as Google's own Hangouts.

Teachers should be careful to fully vet any external resources for unsuitable content and remember that unless it is specifically aimed at children, its use might have security and privacy implications. Likewise, any method that teachers use to facilitate communication will need to be monitored and ground rules made clear. Even a simple Google Document can be used, and possibly abused, for communication if it is shared for collaborative work.

What other apps and websites integrate with Google Classroom?

There are different levels of connectivity that apps can form with Google Classroom. At the simplest level, you can import and export data between Google Classroom and other apps. This saves the laborious task of repeatedly entering the same data. More sophisticated apps, that you may already use, add seamlessly to the functionality of Google Classroom.

Where can I find more ideas about using Google Classroom?

Google Classroom is massively popular and has been so for a long time. Whatever subject you teach and whatever age your students, you are likely to find that other teachers have written about their experiences and top tips for Google Classroom.

While Google is infamous for dropping support for services, there is no evidence of this in regards to Google Classroom. Google for Education's Twitter account is regularly updated with links to all sorts of content with good advice and ideas for teachers.

Teachers using Google Classroom for the first time should build up their reliance on it gradually. Both they and their students will need time to get used to using it. Focussing on the core functionality will provide a good basis on which to introduce more bespoke activities.

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Google Classroom has become a must-have tool for teachers. This free teaching resource website allows educators to assign work, track progress, and communicate with students and parents online. Google Classroom stands out from other learning management systems or student information platforms as it combines all G Suites tools in an intuitive interface for its users.

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Aspergers

Students with Asperger’s Syndrome often have difficulty with planning, remembering, and executive functioning. Teachers can enable students to be more independent by utilizing a daily agenda that lists out the materials needed for class, homework, checklist agenda, and bellwork in an easy to use GoogleSlide template.

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Aspergers

One of the hardest struggles to overcome for a child diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome is their inability to understand nonverbal cues. While these skills might be inherent for other children, the gap in understanding makes it difficult for children with Asperger’s to form relationships with peers. By using the Think-Pair-Share app in ClassDojo, students with Aspergers have the opportunity to think about a question before sharing with a peer and then the class as a whole.

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Now you can facilitate "Think Pair Share" in just one tap. Post a prompt to the Think Pair Share app, then have students turn and share with a partner. Watch the discussion unfold 😀

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Some things are better in pairs: socks, earphones, cookies, and think pair share. Now with one tap of the the Think Pair Share tool you can display a question. Student pairs can collaborate together to solve harder problems, have 1-1 discussions, and work on their teamwork. Supairb.

Teacher Tips

"I love being able to quickly start a Think Pair Share so students can chat with their partner while I'm preparing for our next classroom activity."

Features

Think Pair Share is one of those empowering class discussion strategies that allows your students to have 1-1 conversations, collaborate together to solve harder problems, and hone their team building skills. With the Think Pair Share app, you can display a question or prompt to your students in just one tap. They then have the opportunity to pair up and share, while you prepare for the follow up lesson. This is one of those class discussion tools that gives you a few minutes to take a break from teaching and gain insight for the next lesson - all while stimulating healthy communication among your students. Finally, a fun and simple to use student discussion app. When it comes to equipping yourself with interactive teaching tools, Think Pair Share app is a no-brainer addition to your kit.

When you open up ClassDojo to view your teacher tools, Think Pair Share is on the main list next to a blue discussion bubbles icon. From there, you'll see the option to add a question or topic to a queue. When you're ready, you can cast the question or discussion topic to a computer screen or projected display for the class to see. Your prompt will appear on the screen in a clean and clear graphic - set in the middle of two discussion bubbles on a blue background. Students will be able to reference the prompt as long as it's shared to the screen. When you're ready for your students' discussions to wrap up, you can pull the question down from within the app, signifying to your students that it's time to draw their attention back to the center of the class.

Something that sets this class discussion app apart from other Think Pair Share tools is that you can brainstorm and type out several prompts at once, keeping then privately stored to your dashboard for later use or back-to-back discussions. Whether you like to have a list of prompts ready or you prefer to write your prompts on the fly, this class discussion app is designed to save you time no matter how you approach class discussion strategies.

Benefits

With Think Pair Share, you're equipped with a student discussion tool that keeps your classroom engaged while you take a few minutes to prepare for the next thing. Not only that, when you send a prompt to the screen, you're inviting each member of your class to think for themselves, share their conclusion with classmates, and begin discussions that allow them to better understand why outside input and feedback is essential to developing their own ideas.

If you'd like to see your students grow in their interpersonal skills, you can have them pair off to discuss a prompt one-to-one. If you'd rather your students work more on their team building and group communication skills, you can have your students break up into small groups to discuss. The "pairing" is customizable to how you prefer to use your class discussion tools. Your prompt doesn't always have to be topical or ideological, either. Say you teach math or science, and you're hoping to learn how well your students collaborate to solve a complex equation - you can simply type in a problem to the app and project it to the classroom screen.

By discovering where your students are getting stuck, you can gain key insight on how to continue the lesson or address their confusion about specific problem-solving techniques.

When it comes to teacher tools, Think Pair Share provides you with rare opportunity to pause and let your students process, so you can make notes and adjust your curriculum accordingly. Think Pair Share tools can also help your students better articulate their own confusion about the lesson at hand. By offering a follow up Q&A, you will gain important insight on the status of your students and where you might still need to fill in the gaps.

Best practices

Sometimes it's hard to tell if your students are really "getting it" when you're in the middle of a long lecture. Think Pair Share will help you keep them stimulated while processing new content. If you see students getting antsy, distracted or bored, you can quickly pull up this student discussion tool to pose a reflective question about the current lesson or material you're guiding them through. This will direct their focus back and get their wheels turning, so that they're interacting with the lesson rather than merely letting it go in one ear and out the other.

Another powerful use for class discussion tools like Think Pair Share is building a sense of community among students. By posing non-curriculum-related questions that might help your students get to know one another better, you are inviting them to listen and build trust with one another. When typing in a prompt such as "What are you grateful for today?" or "What's your favorite memory from over the weekend?" or "Where is somewhere you dream of visiting one day?" you are inviting students to connect and empathize on a human level, thus setting them up to more willingly collaborate on complex problems or theories later on. Now tell me another student discussion app that can facilitate interactions like that!

If you're wanting to make the most of your teaching tools, Think Pair Share is not only helpful for breaking up long lesson plans and stimulating discussion, but building a true sense of community in your classroom.

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Auditory Processing Disorder

The Virtual Speech Center has many different app suggestions for students with APD to engage with learning materials, such as vocabulary and social skills, while also engaging with speech therapy.

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Aspergers

Children with Asperger’s Syndrome often lack the ability to organize and group data together. One simple way of helping them to create a more predictable and stable environment for themselves is to allow them create a graphic organizer.

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Create a shared workspace

Open a Creately workspace and add your peers as collaborators with edit access allowing them to work on the graphic organizer with you in real-time.

Clearly define the purpose of the graphic organizer. This will help you determine the type of graphic organizer that will best suit your needs.

Gather all relevant information that you will need to include in the graphic organizer. This may include text, images, or data.

Choose a format for your graphic organizer. Some common formats include flowcharts, mind maps, timelines, and Venn diagrams. Each format has its own strengths and weaknesses, so choose the one that best fits your needs.

Create a basic structure

Create a basic structure for your graphic organizer. This will help to organize the information and make it easy to understand. You can select a graphic organizer template from Creately's templates library. If you are looking to create one from scratch, enable the relevant shape library and drag and drop the shapes to the workspace to start your graphic organizer.

Add the content to the graphic organizer. Be sure to include only the most important information and to use clear and concise language.

Make it visually appealing

Add colors to your graphic organizer from the preset color themes to highlight important ideas/ concepts and make them more presentable. Using built-in Google image search, you can quickly browse and add relevant images and graphics to your graphic organizer to make them more interesting and comprehensible. You can also drag and drop images from your own device.

Review and revise the graphic organizer to ensure that it is accurate and effective. Encourage others to provide feedback and make suggestions for improvements which you can do in Creately with @mention comments and discussion threads.

Keep the graphic organizer simple and easy to understand

Make sure that the graphic organizer is easy to understand and use for the intended audience. Once your graphic organizer is ready, you can export it in PDF, PNG, or SVG formats to share, publish, or print. Or using frames, you can even build a presentation flow right inside Creately and present your graphic organizers to others.

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Auditory Processing Disorder

Students with APD have a heard time have a hard time processing verbal information. The use of a note taking app that allows the student to record audio from lectures or lessons will allow them to be able to go back at a later time to listen to the information over again, sometimes in a room where there is less background noise so that they can focus on the audio notes.

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Students with EFD have trouble staying organized. First Then Visual Schedule HD is an app that can help them plan out their day, add assignments for each class. and a plethora of other things to help them stay organized.

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‎The visual supports you can create and use with First Then Visual Schedule (FTVS) HD have proven to be especially beneficial for the following populations: Typically developing children Those learning English as a second language People with developmental disabilities like Autism and Down Syndrome...

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Executive Dysfunction

Providing multiple means of representation for math students with Executive Function Disorder involves using graphs, tables, equations and situations.  One tool that incorporates these representations is Desmos.

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Selective Mutism
Since selective mutes have a difficult time communicating in social settings, it can be difficult to check for understanding or comprehension. One way to keep them motivated is by using EdPuzzle. Edpuzzle is a platform that allows you to engage students through videos and visual learning. The platform allows educators to choose videos and then add questions or quizzes at the end to check for understanding.

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Easily create beautiful interactive video lessons for your students you can integrate right into your LMS. Track students' progress with hassle-free analytics as you flip your classroom!

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Selective Mutism
Emaze is an online, web-based presentation creator that can be used to build and edit presentations on any personal computer. This can be a wonderful way for selective mutes to be able to express themselves non-verbally.

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Content creation with the help of AI. From amazing presentations and websites, to eCards and more, create beautiful visuals with our ready-to-use templates.

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Selective Mutism

Selective Mutes have a difficult time communicating verbal communication in social settings. Speak Speech Synthesizer is a free app that allows the user to type, store and read back sentences.

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Students with OCD may take a long time to complete assignments and fear of making errors while writing. With the use of the app, Dragon. Students are able to dictate what they want typed and copy it into a document.

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Smart pens have the potential to help students with OCD. They can record what is being said and link it to what is written. That way students can have a way to refer to class discussions/lectures if they get distracted.

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Students with OCD may get so hung up reading that it takes forever, listening to the books can be a solution.

Storyonline offers a huge selection of picture books read by famous actors. This website is easy to navigate for elementary aged students.

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The SAG-AFTRA Foundation's Daytime Emmy-nominated, Storyline Online, features celebrated actors reading children's books to inspire a love of reading in millions of children worldwide.

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ESL

A large obstacle ESL students face is interacting with other (usually English-speaking) students both inside and outside of the classroom. Increasing interaction between the students can greatly improve the morale of the ESL student, as it creates a sense of belonging. Nowadays, everyone uses social media. With Flipgrid, you can have your students create and post short videos on a variety of topics. This can allow your ESL student(s) to share their unique perspectives on subjects, and allow others to comment on them or ask about them.

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We express ourselves in different ways. On Flip, you can use our simple and fun built-in camera to record your thoughts, add effects and share within your Flip group as video, audio only or text in your web browser or mobile app.

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Flip is a video discussion and sharing app, free from Microsoft.

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Flip (formerly Flipgrid) is a video discussion and video sharing app, free from Microsoft, built for classrooms and beyond. Learn more.

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ESL

Voicethread is a great application that allows the user to add their voice to a presentation. This can be especially useful for ESL students, as the pressure to speak in front of the class in a second language can often be too daunting to handle. It allows them to focus more on getting the language correct so they feel more confident in their speaking.

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design discussions
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Transforming media into collaborative spaces with video, voice, and text commenting.

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ESL

ESL students can have trouble comprehending written text. Newsela is a great resource I use all the time. For every single article, it allows the reader to adjust the difficulty, from very basic all the way to native fluency. Each article also allows the reader to highlight, define, and save new vocabulary. Quizzes can be assigned for each article, allowing students to show they comprehended the material. Not only is this helpful for ESL students, it can benefit all students by allowing them to also keep a "bank" of new vocabulary or ideas they might come across.

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It's time to improve literacy skills during social studies instruction and ensure that readers of all abilities have what they need to access grade-level social studies concepts.

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Newsela | Content and assessment platform

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Content Aligned To National & State Standard, Flexible To Support Relevant Curriculum. Find the Perfect Piece Of Content For Lessons. Go beyond the book.

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Autism
Children with Autism: A visual schedule is a picture based scheduler that can be send to the user's smartwatch to alert he/she went they need to change tasks or start a new task. The app includes icons and has the option to upload pictures to make custom icons. This app would be beneficial to any students who struggle with executive functioning skills.

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Autism
Livescribe is an assistive technology tool that would be beneficial for students with Autism because it can be used to record class lectures as you write notes. These notes can be saved on the smart pen and can be accessed for later use. Also, notes can be shared with classmates using cloud services.

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Pioneering Smartpens

We found that in this ever changing technological landscape, constantly switching between written and typed notes can be frustrating. We created a pen that brings these two worlds together.

Each of our Livescribe pens are equipped with an IR camera that takes up to 72 snapshots per second, which captures and recreates your handwriting.

It is easy to change the ink in your smartpen, and each pen can be charged using a Micro USB Cable.

Livescribe notebooks use regular paper printed with a unique pattern of tiny micro-dots. This pattern is called DPS and works like a GPS for the smartpen.

The smartpen's high‐speed infrared camera reads the dot‐pattern, which enables a wide range of digital functionalities and paper-based applications. Livescribe's dot paper notebooks and paper‐based applications are provided by Livescribe at prices comparable to standard paper products.

Our partner app that works on all devices. Sync your Livescribe smartpen to our app, and keep all your notes where you need them most.

Transform your handwritten notes to text and search through them, effortlessly. Store your notes on your favourite cloud service, and use Pencast to sync audio to your notes.

Share your ideas in any format, so you never lose touch with what you create. From text and doodles to a masterpiece.

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We found that in this ever changing technological landscape, constantly switching between written and typed notes can be frustrating. We created a pen that brings these two worlds together. Each of our Livescribe pens are equipped with an IR camera that takes up to 72 snapshots per second, which captures and recreates your handwriting.

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Autism
Co:Writer is an assistive technology tool that would be beneficial for students with Autism because it predicts words and phrases that you're intending to type in real time. Co:Writer uses grammar and vocabulary smart word prediction, translation, and speech recognition  to assist a writer in getting their ideas flowing.

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Co:Writer kickstarts the writer inside and offers the most complete writing toolkit to help unstick ideas and get them to flow in writing.

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ADHD

Students with ADHD would be greatly engaged by a graphic organizer software such as Kidspiration. Students can organize the information they have learned in a way that makes sense to them.
Graphic organizers are a great tool to use with students who have ADHD.

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ADHD

I would allow my students with ADHD to use word-cloud generators to create visual representations that relate to different topics. This can be used in any subject area. For example, after learning about the French and Indian War, I would have my students present the most important points through Word Art. The simplification of content will help students better understand the concepts.

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WordArt.com is an AI-powered word cloud generator that enables you to create amazing and unique word clouds with ease.

Professional quality results can be achieved in no time at all, even for users with no prior knowledge of graphic design.

Word clouds (also known as tag cloud, word collage or wordle) are visual representation of text that give greater rank to words that appear more frequently.

Word clouds are perfect for creating stunning personalized gifts. No sign up required!

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WordArt.com is an online word cloud generator that enables you to create amazing and unique word clouds with ease

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ADHD

Students with ADHD may find it challenging to sit there and read a book; therefore, an audio book service would be beneficial to them. While they listen to the book being read aloud, students are able to use fidget tools to help them stay focused.

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Try Audible free for 30 days! Start listening to best-selling audiobooks, exclusive Originals, and free podcasts with the Audible app.

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DYSGRAPHIA

Children with dysgraphia are greatly motivated and highly engaged when they are able to type rather than write. A great resource to teach and keep them motivated to learn how to type is the program Typing Agent.

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Log in to Typing Agent, the most powerful online typing program for schools. Sign in and learn to type with a gamified K-12 keyboarding and technology curriculum.

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DYSGRAPHIA

Grammarly improves communication by leaps and bounds for individuals with dysgraphia.   It works by interpreting phonetic spelling and translating it to proper words.
It allows the students to keep practicing their retrieval skills and reinforcing the correct way to complete written expression while lowering the frustration level. Typing is also an easier process for students with dysgraphia than writing.

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DYSGRAPHIA

Dysgraphia is when  person has problems with handwriting, and is unable to express thoughts through writing.  They have problems storing words, and processing letters into words. Information can be presented in any format. This disability does not require a modified way to present information.

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HEARING IMPAIRED
Epic books is a great resource where students can read books online. Depending on the severity of the hearing impairment, students can also have the books read to them.

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Instantly access over 40,000 of the best books & videos for kids on Epic

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HEARING IMPAIRED
Use Quizizz to review concepts. Students can work at their own pace and the questions are provided on each student's computer screen, therefor students with hearing impairments won't need to listen for the question to be read to the class.

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Wayground - The world's most engaging learning platform

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Find and create gamified quizzes, lessons, presentations, and flashcards for students, employees, and everyone else. Get started for free!

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HEARING IMPAIRED
Caption videos and films to provide text to students with hearing impairments. AutoCap automatically provides captions to videos.

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DYSLEXIA
Use Overdrive to provide students with audio books on topics.

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DYSLEXIA
Use Grammarly to help students proofread their work as they write.

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DYSLEXIA
Use flipgrid for students to express their mastery of a topic using video.

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VISUAL IMPAIRMENT
Use auditory cues (like music) to transition between activities.

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TV Theme Songs

The response from teachers who have been using theme songs in their classrooms has been nothing short of overwhelming. Each and every email tells the same basic story.

"I am amazed at how well this idea has worked with my students."

"It's like magic!"

"I have a pretty tough class this year and thought the songs wouldn't work very well. Boy, was I wrong! You should see them scramble to get ready for recess when they hear the first few notes of Mission Impossible. Thank you so much."
The Basics
The main reason music works so well is this:

It's as simple--and complex--as that.

As you already know, there's a massive amount of talking done throughout the day. The majority of the talking is done by the teacher. In fact, research indicates the teacher's voice accounts for approximately 80% of the total volume.

The students, as you can infer, contribute the other 20%. Their talking could be in response to a lesson being taught. It might be the natural outcome of a think-pair-share situation. Add to those two the oh-so-annoying, off-topic social talk that can occur on a regular basis and we're dealing with a virtual tidal wave of words.

Note: Check out Talkative Students for a simple suggestion on how to deal with social talk.

But music, for the most part, is devoid of words. This is especially true of most TV theme songs. The melody of the song is a right-brain cue that is able to cut through all of the verbal clutter and send a clear, unmistakeable message.

Music Messages

A theme song can be used to send a number of different messages. The song could:

1. remind the students about something

2. initiate a pre-established procedure

3. time the length of a transition

4. create a pleasant background during student discussions

Listed below are some suggestions to get you thinking about the possibilities. These theme songs can be found on the CD that comes with the book, Eight Great Ideas . (It's included with the book because one of the ideas in the book is about using music for management.)

Instead of the traditional "N-B-C" association, my students knew the three chimes meant "Name, number, date." I usually waited until they were well underway on the assignment before I cued up the song. It was the rare paper in my room that did not have the proper identification on it.

The predictability of this song makes it perfect for transitions. After giving my students the transition goals, I would play the song. It only took about a week or two for them to become familiar enough with the song that it became, in essence, an internal clock.

My students had the freedom--a student need--to work away from their seats if it helped them get something done. When it was time to move on to something else, though, this song told them to return to their regular seats.

My district was big on working with students on the carpet. Not sure why, but they were and wanted to see it. A lot. The Bill Nye song, 28 seconds in length, proved to be the perfect song for getting them to come to the carpet without a word being spoken. From me, that is. They would talk on the way to the carpet; but, I was okay with that. It was an opportunity--freedom, if you will--for them to engage in social talk. All I required was that they stop the conversations and come to attention when the song was over. Win-Win.

This less-than-a-minute song is great for packing up at the end of the day. (Or the end of the period, secondary teachers.) The music is upbeat and high-energy.

I used just the first thirty seconds of the song as a way to get my students to prepare themselves for the start of our morning BELLWORK™ activity. (You can go to the BELLWORK™ page for more information about how to make this powerful start-off-the-day activity really fly.)

Another high-energy, upbeat song, this is a good one to get them out of their seats and pitching in whenever you want to return your classroom to a semblance of neatness.

Playing music in the background as students engage in think-pair-share discussions is a great way to not only time the length of the discussion but also create an environment conducive to the discussion. The conducive part is based on the fact that, psychologically, music is considered to be a "mask." It actually minimizes the impact of the other voices being used throughout the room.

If, for example, two students were to either burst out in laughter or get into a bit of an argument during the T-P-S, just about every other partnership would shut down to see what was going on. But with music playing in the background, the other pairs of students are less likely to notice.

Another advantage to the use of a background discussion song is the fact that the end of the song is a cue for the students to come back to attention.

I used to play this song when I was about to select a student--or-two--to help with a lesson. To make it a random selection, I made some large name cards with their first and last name written on them. We're talking cards big enough to read from across the room but narrow enough to hold aloft in my hand.

As soon as the first few notes of the song hit their little right brains, they were all thinking: "Mr. Morris is about to call someone to the front of the room to help out!"

As the song played, I would shuffle the cards and then hold one up.

Mr. Morris
In his best Bob Barker voice:
Natalie Adams! Come on down!

As you can imagine, there'd be some cheering and clapping just like the game show.

TV Theme Songs website
Here's the site where you can download hundreds of theme songs from television shows and cartoons.
televisiontunes.com

Send in your suggestions

If you've got a TV theme song you're using in your classroom, send in the title of the song and how you use it in your classroom. We'll post your submission on this page for other teachers to see.
Hey, Rick. Here's my theme song idea. Teacher Suggestion:
After you shared the idea of theme songs, I went a little crazy at first. Now I've learned to be consistent and that more is not always better.

This year, my students were taking forever to line up for lunch. Although they did not want to be last in a line of 8 third grade classes, they were still moving at a snail's pace to get out the door. So, I now use the I Dream of Jeannie song and the goal is to be out the door, in alphabetical order and ready to go before the song ends. It is working great!

Thanks for all your great ideas. It definitely helps me work smarter, not harder.

Audra Ciasullo
Third grade teacher

Teacher Suggestion:
It may be that I overlooked it in the Eight Great ideas book, but I would suggest renaming each of the song titles on your iPod according to the procedure it represents so that when you want name, #, date that's what you see, rather than the song title.

I've used the Jeopardy song as a way to clear a space for Drama in my classroom. My kids move my desk and about nine of theirs and get in place in under a minute. They love Clear Desks, please.

I've also used Andy Griffith to give them an opportunity to share with two other students something I've taught. It's an opportunity to move around the room when I begin to see the wiggles take over.

I hope this was helpful.

David Leonard
2nd & 3rd Grade
Cobb Mountain Elementary School

Teacher Suggestion:
I tried having my students turn in an assignment to the Mission Impossible theme song. It was amazing to see how quickly they were able to do it.

It was cute to watch the students who had already placed their assignment in the collection box stand around and dance to the remainder of the song. It allowed them to release some pent-up energy which is always helpful.

Thanks so much for the idea about using TV theme songs for procedures.

Gail Forest
Riverbank Teacher's Association

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Text-To-Speech within a Google Doc can assist with verbal & written responses.

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A high-quality unlimited TTS voice app that runs in your Chrome browser. Tool for creating voice from text or Google Drive file.

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CoolSpeech converts digital text into spoken text with a variety of voices and saved as a WAV file.

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