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.