Life Skills Professional Development 200708

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Life Skills Professional Development 2007-08

• Please sit with your Teacher/Teaching Assistant

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Agenda

• 8-9 Welcome, general information
• Special Education DirectorJanna Lilly
• 9-12 Writing TEKS based objectives Jim Gonzales
  from Region 13
• 1200- 115 Lunch on your own
• 115-215 Life Skills Standards
• 215-230 Break
• 230- 400 TAKS-Alt/SEEDS

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Life Skills Meeting Guidelines

• Please turn off cell phones or turn to vibrate.
• Remain focused on meeting agenda.
• Give the speaker your attention.

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Power Point Syndrome
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Janna Lilly
Welcome to AISD!

• Special Education Director

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Community Teachers

• Dana McDonald 42050
• Kris Patterson 42484
• Brian Power 42029
• Rod Reichardt 42048
• Cindy Rosales 49543
• Tammy Smith .40960
• Sara Merritt.Life Skills Supervisor.42027

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Welcome staff

• Please stand when your group is called
• Teachers
• Teaching Assistants
• VI Teachers
• Others

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Family Support Cooperative

• Starts Sept. 11th at Rosedale
• 2nd 4th Tuesday (Sept, Oct, Nov)
• Fliers will be sent to your dept. chair
• Enough for 1 flier per student, Eng Spanish
• Please send flier home to parents

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Parent School Support Team

• Assists w/ family access to community resources
  and help w/schools issues
• Provide support to Special Ed. Staff
• Call or ask parents to call us

Grace Garza
Rosemary Alexander
Jill Ramirez
414-0955
414-2049
414-2535
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What you are missing today
Professional Learning Communities
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Quietly listen to.
Special Ed
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Writing TEKS-Based IEPs for Life Skills Students

• Jim Gonzales
• Region XIII

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Game of Standards

• Looking for Teacher Volunteers

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Categories
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Life Skills Standard Roles and Responsibilities
Johnny is going from fifth grade to Middle
School. The paperwork is flawless however, when
the Middle School receives him, his Life Skills
Teacher blows a gasket. Apparently the well
written goal are too specific- requesting
programs that arent offered. How could this
have been avoided?
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Advancement from elementary to middle school and
from middle to high school must be coordinated
between the sending and receiving campuses and
related support staff (PRIOR to an ARD).
Collaborating about everything from academics to
the students preferred food etc. can prevent
frustrations later on.
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Life Skills Standard Curriculum

• Each time the Coordinator visits the Life
  Skills classroom, Maria is sitting on a beanbag
  flicking beads no matter what time of day. Which
  two tools are helpful in determining whether the
  student is actively engaged throughout the day?

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All students must be actively engaged throughout
the instructional day as evidenced by classroom
1)schedule and 2)data collection.
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Life Skills Standard Behavior Management
Little Jimmy (who does not have a history of
behavioral issues and loves to eat) is becoming
increasingly aggressive when he is told no or
asked to do an activity that he does not like.
He has pushed several of the other students and
bit a little girl who uses a wheelchair. The
teacher should     
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a. Call Jimmys mom and ask if she can keep
him home the rest of the week. b.      Look Jimmy
right in the eye and say No! every time he
misbehaves. c.       Have Jimmy miss lunch after
any serious incidents of aggression. d.      Call
to make an appointment with the Behavior
Specialist so they can do a Functional Behavior
Analysis. e.       Meet ASAP with Jimmys
family, and others who know him, and write a FBA.
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Life Skills Standard Student Communication
Jamal is non-verbal and does not read print.
What does he need to access his education?
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All students must have a communication system and
access to adapted equipment and devices as
appropriate
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Life Skills Standard Schedules

• When the Principal, Mr. Abbott, drops in to view
  Mrs. Taylor's 4th grade Life Skills Classroom, he
  finds the room empty. As he glances around the
  room, he observes numerous picture symbols on the
  wall. Focusing his attention on the large
  calendar posted on the chalkboard, Mr. Abbott
  notes that today the class is volunteering at the
  Humane Society.

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The classroom schedule(s) and/or calendars(s) are
posted.
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Physical Environment
Life Skills Standard Physical Environment
It is not mandatory for each Life Skills
classroom to have a color printer and a digital
camera.
True or False
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Life Skills Standard Team Communication
Where should the phone log be
maintained?
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Answer is
In the SEEDS Communication Log.
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Life Skills Standard Inclusion
Steve is in the fifth grade. He is beginning to
demonstrate emerging reading and math skills.
His teacher decides that the best inclusion
placement is in Pre-K where he can be on the
same academic level with his peers. Is this an
appropriate placement?
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Transition
Life Skills Standard Transition
Since Transition doesnt start until High School,
information regarding community service agencies
should be obtained by families without support
and they should wait to get on those agency
waiting lists until a student is at least in
Middle School.
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The answer is

• Transition planning is required at age 13
  (doesnt matter at what grade) and continues
  throughout the students school career.
• Transition planning is often appropriate to do
  in elementary school.

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Parents should be given information regarding
waiting lists and community service agencies as
early as possible PPCD - High School.
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Life Skills Standardvocational
Life Skills Standard Vocational
Instruction
How does vocational instruction change as a
student becomes older?
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The scope and sequence increases and work
tasks occur more frequently and in varied
settings.
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Life Skills Standard CBI
Life Skills Standard Community
Based Instruction (CBI)
Community Based Instruction is primarily for
secondary students. True or False?
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Life Skills Standard Data
Collection

• Ms. Valley is a teaching assistant in Mr.
  Leafs Life Skills class and
  she takes data on Baileys IEP objectives each
  week. Is this an assignment that can be given to
  Ms. Valley, even if the Ms. Valley does not have
  teacher certification?

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• Data must be taken on all IEP goals/objectives
  and documented at least twice a week or as
  specified in the IEP
• Teachers may designate Teaching Assistants to
  collect data as needed.

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Life Skills Standards In Action

• Data Collection segment from the Rosedale film
• Beyond The
• Lesson Plan

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LIFE SKILLS TAKS ALT
We are now on the radar...
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Say Goodbye..

• LDAA
• SDAA
• TAKSI

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EGL

• Acronym of the year awarded to Enrolled Grade
  Level (EGL)
• All students must be assessed at their enrolled
  grade level
• TAKS-ALT prerequisite skills link us to EGL.

EGL
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TAKS-M
EGL
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TAKS-ALT
EGL
SEE HANDOUT
via Prerequisite skills
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Assessment Overview

• TAKS and TAKS w/Accomodations
• TAKS Accommodated (TAKS-A)
• TAKS Modified (TAKS M)
• TAKS-ALT (Our favorite!)

All students must fit into these 4 options
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Subjects tested by Grade
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Lets look at this again
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Essence Statements (ES)

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Talk with your team

• Estimate how many essence statements you will be
  required to assess for each student in your
  class.
• The team with the highest total number of essence
  statements wins a prize.

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TAKS ALT TIMELINE

• 1) Review state mandated Essence Statements on
  T.E.A.s assessment site, choose 3 yourself and
  align your instruction/data collection
• http//www.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/reso
  urces/taksalt/essence/index.html
• 2) Complete the 4 modulesAGAINthey have been
  revised and contain pertinent information.
  Complete by October 1st
• http//pearson.learn.

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TAKS ALT TIMELINE

• 3) On October 1 begin creating and/or documenting
  your assessment on TAKSAlt.com
• 4) Final submission window is

APRIL 7th- April 18th
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TAKS ALT Module Help

• http//pearson.learn.com
• Username
• Last name, first two letters of first name, birth
  month, birth date
• Merrittsa1201
• Password
• 1-800-627 0225 or TAKSAlt.techhelp_at_pearson.com

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Changes from TEA TAKSALT

• Checklist is more user friendly
• Sample activities now include prerequisite skills
• Modules completely redone so redo
• NO drop down menu for pre requisite skills so
  well still have to cut and paste
• BTCs can access taksalt.com earlier than you so
  they can enter your names, stay on them to do
  this!

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SEEDS Updates

• Calculate
• Notice of Decision
• Every transfer must start with transfer button on
  bottom of table of forms
• Transportation cards
• Communication Log
• Case Manager Button