Special Populations

• Remote Learning Academy Interventions for Digital Literacy, Literacy, Cognitive, and Executive Functioning Barriers - from UA Unison

Professional Development Materials:

• Differentiation in a Virtual World - Professional development materials on Google Quiz, Translate, Voice-to-Text, and Annotated Texts - from UA Central

• Differentiation in Writing Tasks - Session 3 - Professional development materials on strategies for increasing student engagement through skillful differentiation of virtual writing assignments in Google Classroom and a review of the virtual teaching app Nearpod - from UA Central (5/14)

• Talking Points: Tool for Language Translation - User writes in English, picks the language, and families will receive the information in their language. When the family responds, it will change into English for you!

• FAQs: Supporting Students with Special Needs - DOE Responses as of 3/25

• Danielson Resources | ELL Students | SPED Students

  • These resources empower teachers to understand how they are being evaluated when they support specific populations.

  • Rubrics are specific to classroom observations but do contain a lot of relevant information that applies to online learning as well.

    • • For example, rubrics have many rows only applicable to physical classroom space, so these rows should be ignored

    • Topics include communicating with students, managing classroom procedures, establishing a culture of learning, and using assessment as instruction

• UDL Strategies - These resources provide teachers with strategies for students with IEPs based on their UDL category.

  1. • Provides a one-pager for UDL categorization that is very specific to observable classroom behaviors, while providing even more information in an separate document

     • The UDL guidelines are very comprehensive and these documents both help to identify types of learners and strategies for supporting them

     • Resources are individualized to student needs, so the teacher must have a solid understanding of each student in order to provide the correct accommodation

• Strategy Packet for ELL Students - This excellent resource outlines simple strategies for how to remediate ELL students.

  1. • Although some strategies are specific to physical classroom modifications can be made for online settings

     • Strategies are broken down by their individual learning need, so teachers will have to know their students and may need to combine some strategies.