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Adjust Assignments to Address Attention
Adjust Assignments to Address Attention
“If you have 15 minutes” strategy...
“If you have 15 minutes” strategy...
Paper and/or Digital Materials
Organize assignments in small, 15 minute increments. Assign a minimum number of minutes for each lesson and allow the student and family to decide how to chunk it.
Maximize Engagement
Maximize Engagement
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Design instruction with options for students to make choices in how they access the information and how they show what they know.
Design instruction with consideration to student interest and/or authentic, real world issues and problems.
For more information on engagement, see Engagement.
Minimize Threats and Distractions
Minimize Threats and Distractions
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Create a safe and welcoming community that is supportive and accepting.
Design instruction that is sensitive to learner variability, e.g. vary level of novelty or risk, vary level of sensory stimulation, vary social demands, and provide opportunity for and flexibility in whole class discussions.
Add a Timer or Suggested Schedule
Add a Timer or Suggested Schedule
Paper Materials
Use a timer (smartphone, egg timer, kitchen stove timer,time timer, online timer. Smart speaker - Alexa) to encourage students to stay focused on an assignment. Encourage a ratio of work time to break time (e.g.. work for 20 minutes, break for 5 minutes). Adjust the time on task to meet the student’s needs/new situation.
Suggest a minimum allotted time for students to work for the day. Allow flexibility in the size of the time chunks.
Offer positive feedback for time on task.
Digital Materials
Use Alexa, smartphone app, ,time timer, online timer to monitor “time on task”. Encourage a ratio of work time to break time (e.g.. work for 20 minutes, break for 5 minutes) Adjust the time on task to meet the student’s needs/new situation.
Suggest a total allotted time for students to work for the day. Allow flexibility in the size of the time chunks.
Suggest a minimum allotted time for students to work for the day. Allow flexibility in the size of the time chunks.
Offer positive feedback for time on task.
Build in Brain Breaks
Build in Brain Breaks
Paper and/or Digital Materials
Brain breaks help learners get ready for new learning and reduce stress and frustration associated with school work. Suggest breaks based on your students age, attention and past performance. Add them to the daily schedule.
Easy brain breaks to assign at home.
Use QR code, link, and GoNoodle to assign brain breaks via smartphone or other available device.
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