Teaching Personal Management

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Teaching Personal Management

• Self-Management of Materials, Procedures Time

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Personal Management

• Organization/Management of Materials
• To find or organize things
• Time Management
• To plan, schedule or manage time
• Procedural management
• To remember how to do

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Personal Management Skills

• What personal managements skills are found
• In the Syracuse Curriculum
• In the LCCE Curriculum
• What personal management skills are your 245.12
  students required to have (implicitly or
  explicitly)
• With which ones do they struggle?

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Barriers to Personal Management

• Physical
• Cannot physically manage materials (stuff) in
  school settings
• Cognitive
• Cannot remember information or process
  ineffectiveness
• Impulsivity prevents timely or systematic
  management of stuff, time, due dates, etc.
  inefficiency

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Barriers to Personal Management

• Linguistic
• Difficulty in comprehending verbal instructions
  or information ineffective (faulty) or
  inefficient (too slow)
• Relates to deficiencies in language base
• Relates to problems with auditory processing
• Distractions with management of materials lead
  students with learning disabilities and/or ADD to
  miss critical information from teacher

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Ineffective Intervention Strategy Nagging

• Nagging (as defined by P-K)
• Long-term or persistent use of repeated verbal
  prompts or instructions when the evidence shows
  that it is NOT working!!!

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Effective Interventions

• What personal management interventions have you
  observed in SED 245.12 that work?

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Effective Interventions should

• Teach the student the needed personal management
  skills
• Teach the student to use tools to increase
  self-management
• Involve teachers, peers or parents to support
  skill use

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What are the Needed Skills?

• Select a few from previous list and further
  analyze the skills, if needed
• Managing Materials
• Managing Time
• Managing Tasks or Procedures
• Analysis framework
• What is the desired outcome(s)?
• What do you need to know?
• What do you need to do?

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Tools (Technology) for Personal Management

• Directly cues or prompts
• Recall of information
• What, where, when, how
• Process of organizing, for now or when needed in
  the future
• Objects/Materials
• Actions/Events
• Information

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Managing Materials

• What materials (stuff) must be organized
• Pre-K to K
• Elementary Grades
• Middle High School

Any special materials for student with
disabilities?
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Managing Materials

• What are the basic organizational tools
• In Pre-K to K?
• In Grades 1-5?
• In Middle School?
• In High School?

The Backpack has become the universal
organizational tool during the school years
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Managing Materials

• Organizational systems
• Prompt physical organization of materials (what
  where)
• Drawer or shelf organizers
• Desk or notebook organizers
• Homework Folders by Topic
• e.g., Math, Reading, Writing Spelling
• Topic organizer e-folders (virtual
  organization)
• E.g., folders files in Neo portable
  keyboarding device

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A Basic Organizational System for Managing
School Materials

• Subject Folders
• File folders (what)
• Two-pocket folders (what when)
• To do / Done
• Take home / Bring back
• Book Covers
• Coded to subject folders
• Worksheet or Assignment Sheets
• Coded to subject folders

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Organizational System for Managing Educational
Materials

• What systems can be used to organize
• Notebooks?
• Desks?
• Lockers?
• What should be the basis for organizing a locker?

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Managing Time

• What time-based decisions do students need to
  make
• What time-based events do students need to manage
• Pre-K to K
• Elementary Grades
• Middle High School

Any special decisions or events for student with
disabilities?
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Tools for Managing Time

• Prompt the recall (remind us) of specific time
  events
• It is time to
• Prompt attention to time remaining
• I only have

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Time Management tools

• Clocks
• Used to know what time it is or will be
• Alarms
• Used to prompt attention to specific times
• Timers
• Used to prompt attention to elapsed time

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Time Management Tools

• Daily Schedule
• Used to prompt recall of time (order) of daily
  events
• Two Types of Daily Schedule
• Class Schedule
• Personal Schedule
• Use to build independence
• Used to manage transition problems

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Digital Time Management Tools

• Schedule Assistant
• Time-based audio messages combined with visual
  picture prompts

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Time Management Tools

• Time management tools
• Calendars
• Used to prompt recall of dates of weekly,
  monthly, or annual special events
• School, family or personal calendar
• Weekly/Monthly Schedule
• Used to prompt recall of date time of weekly,
  monthly or annual time-specific events
• Personal calendar or schedule

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On-Line Time Management Tools

• Reminders
• Jott
• forLater.net

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Managing Tasks

• What tasks do student need to self-management
• Pre-K to K
• Elementary Grades
• Middle High School

Any special tasks for student with disabilities?
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Managing Tasks Actions

• Task management systems
• Used to prompt recall of what activities or tasks
  need to be done and, possibly in what critical
  order
• To Do lists
• Classroom job assignment charts

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On-Line Task Management Tools

• To-Do Lists
• TaDa List
• Remember the Milk

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Managing Procedures

• Step-by-Step guides
• Used to prompt recall of procedures for (how to
  do) a task or activity
• Jobs - Domestic, classroom, work
• Routines, e.g., getting ready in the morning,
  submitting homework

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Managing Procedures

• Tools for managing procedures
• Text-based how to guide (task chart)
• Picture-enhanced task chart
• ETP-6
• Auditory prompts
• Digital playback devices, e.g., MP3 player
• PowerPoint slide show
• Power Talk

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Digital Task Management Tools

• Pocket Coach
• Multiple task auditory prompting
• Visual Assistant
• Multiple task visual auditory prompting