Easy CBM- Reading and Math Assessment

EasyCBM is an enhanced district assessment that intergrates RTI (Response to Intervention) model. "It provides school districts, administrators, and teachers with a full suite of assessment and reporting options, offering a complete solution at every tier of the RTI process."

Enhanced features include:

• Full set of Benchmarking and Progress Monitoring assessments, Reading and Math, Grades K through 8.
• Sync teachers accounts, student records, and class lists from your Student Information System. Easily maintain student records from year to year.
• Multiple levels of account access for teachers, principals, district personnel, and administrators.
• Various forms of data entry including online student tests, streamlined total score entry of paper-pencil tests, and other options.
• Reports by teacher, building, grade-level, or district with customizable percentiles and color-codings, including exports for your Data Warehouse.
• Admin panel with various system-level settings and configurations, user account management, and student record maintenance.
• Secure SSL website connections with 256-bit data encryption (same level used by banks), and optional password-protection of online student tests.

http://easycbm.com/

Interventions for Cognitive and Academic Deficits.

This PDF is a great resource when writing a students report. This resource gives you interventions, accommodations, and suggested instructional strategies for both cognitive and academic deficits.



Interventions for Cognitive and Academic Deficits

Ethical Considerations when Working with Families of Young Children

This PDF gives Special Educators some tips to use or consider when working with families of young children. The PDF includes a four phase model for solving ethical dilemmas and a seven step process for ethical decision making.

Ethical Considerations

Students need to have social skills.

It is important for our students to do well academically but it is important for them to be social as well. researchers have shown that students with disabilities tend to lack in social skills. Teachers should help with their students social skills and facilitate friendships if need be. This article give teachers some strategies on what they can do for their students.

http://cec.metapress.com/content/l248638537888705/

ADHD Accommodations

This chart is a good source for teachers to use for students they may have with ADHD:

A great book for teachers to use!

Tough Kid ToolBox is a great book for all teachers. It provides straight forward, ready to use materials for managing and motivating "tough-to-teach students". The materials in this book enables teachers to implement positive behavior management on these students. This is a book teachers can use over and over again.

Want to decrease behavior?

This website is a good resource for information and strategies for decreasing behavior. What I like most about this page is the information on how to data collect and a tutorial on graphing the data you have collected.


https://angel.westminstercollege.edu/section/content/default.asp?WCI=pgDisplay&WCU=CRSCNT&ENTRY_ID=EAE142C8AFF84D1C9D00B48412CD1AAF