Online Enrichment for Special Student Populations

Strategies For Online learning Enrichment for Special Education Students

  • Always use captions in your videos

  • Create shorter lessons

  • Look for common accommodations and modifications among your students to ease lesson design

  • Use the caption setting in Google Slides by clicking on the arrow next to the Present button

  • Speak slowly and clearly

  • help students stay organized and get additional support with one on one Google Hangout Check Ins

  • Always have a visual during asynchronous or live synchronous sessions

IEP Online Accommodations

Goal: Supporting students with Visual Impairment:

Strategy: Making the Chromebook easier to see:

  • Increase the size of the online content

  • Increase the size of the curser

  • Use "highlights" around the curser, text caret or keyboard focused item

  • Invert colors


Goal: Improved Access to Digital Text

Strategy: Leverage Chromebooks Text to Speech Features

  • Select to Speak: on demand spoken feedback for specific text or sections of the screen

  • Chromevox: Full system has spoken feedback, for students with more significant vision loss


Goal: Helping Students With Executive Functioning Challenges

Strategy: Create options for frequent check ins

  • Use calendar reminders

  • Set up a system of digital rewards using Google Classroom and Google Keep

  • Google Form check ins


Goal: Supporting Students With Written Expression Challenges

Strategy: Empowering students to use their voice to type

  • Use Chromebook systemwide dictation

  • Dictation within the virtual keyboard

  • Google Docs voice typing


Goal: Increase Behavior Support for Better Completion of Work

Strategy: Remote Support

  • Student completing work with a teaching aid


Goal: Increasing Focus During Daily work

Strategy: Allowing frequent breaks during lesson completion

  • Using brain break tools such as GoNoodle, Chrome Music Lab, etc


Goal: Increase Productivity

Strategy: Promoting focus and better time management

  • Provide timers and focus reminders during work time

  • Teach students how to use full screen mode to reduce distractions

  • Use Chrome Extension Stay Focused to limit time on specific sites

Strategies For Online Learning Enrichment for ELD Students

  • Offer screencast or a live read aloud to your students.

  • Allow students to listen to the summary in their home language.

  • Provide sentence frames for verbal or written responses.

  • Enable captions in your screencasts and resource videos.

  • Provide lots of visuals.

  • Allow students to translate a google doc or online resource into their own language.

  • Allow students to dictate responses using speech to text functions in their home language and then translate into English using Google Translate.