Curriculum Issues with Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders

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Curriculum Issues with Students with Emotional
and Behavioral Disorders

• E. Paula Crowley,
• Illinois State University
• Beverley H. Johns,
• MacMurray College
• Presented to Ohio CCBD
• Saturday, June 27, 2009

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Curriculum Issues with

• Lets take a few moments to remember the children
  and adolescents we care about
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vxZ_fOQgTadofeature
  related

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Mappig This Session
Mapping This Session
Hope Engaged Time Self-management
Meaningful and Relevant Curriculum
Teacher Role
Teachers Thinking
Parent and Professional Partnerships
Students thinking
Social skills
Individualized Goals and Objectives
Maximizing the Potential of Instruction
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Mapping This Session in more detail

• In this session we will discuss five data based
  essential aspects of effective curriculum
  development for students with emotional and
  behavioral disorders.  We will address
• the role of the teacher as an essential change
  agent
• the importance of teachers thinking that focuses
  on both long-term and short-term goals
• implementing meaningful and relevant curriculum
• considerations for maximizing the potential of
  instruction as a unique component of the
  curriculum
• parent and professional partnerships as an
  essential component for effective curriculum for
  students with EBD
• Audience participation as well as references
  for future study will be provided.

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The role of the teacher as an essential change
agent

• Bullock, Ellis and Wilson
• Fink and Janssen
• McIntyre and Battle
• Among many others in our field who have provided
  us with evidence about the role of teachers when
  teaching students with EBD
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vDo4E9lYWMEM

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Curriculum Development and Behavior Management

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?ve1Ak0oAOAukfeature
  related

Curriculum Development
Behavior Management
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Curriculum for students with behavioral disorders

• Teachers of students with emotional and
  behavioral disorders have an opportunity to
  transform human lives (p. 6).
• Johns, Crowley, Guetzloe (2002). Effective
  Curriculum for students with emotional and
  behavioral disorders, Denver, CO Love. p. 6.

• Relevant
• Engaging
• Vibrant
• Effective
• Authentic
• Learning
• Success

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Long-term and short-term individualized goals and
objectives
The priority of an individualized education - IDEA
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Meaningful and Relevant Curriculum
Strength-based Interest-based Function-based
curriculum Age appropriate curriculum
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The Central Role of Teaching Social Skills

• Based on assessmentskill deficit, performance
  deficit, fluency deficit
• Why is it hard to teach social skills
• The Teachable MomentSocial autopsy
• Recognition of appropriate skills
• Teacher as a Role Model
• Direct instruction
• Special projects
• Conflict Resolution
• Self-Management

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A Curriculum of Hope
The Language of Hope Modeling Using positive
materials Special topics within the
curriculum Mentoring by positive and responsible
individuals Integrated and meaningful
projectsservice learning
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Engaged time

• Engaged timeportion of instructional time that
  students spend directly involved in learning
  activities.
• Transition time
• Accurate teacher
• schedule
• Watching for time
• wasters in the day

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Self-Management

• Organizational skills
• based on preferences
• Student monitoring
• of following rules
• Goal setting
• Problem solving
• techniques
• Time estimation
• Graphing progress
• WATCH
• Proofreading
• Reflection

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More on self-management

• Self-talkaffirmation
• statements,
• attributions
• Self-advocacy
• Conflict resolution
• Stress reduction
• Journaling

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Higher-level thinking
Activities that are higher level Problem based
learning Literature groups Compacting Contracts Me
dia literacy Higher level questioning
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Working with families

• Crisis assistance
• Ideas for getting
• parents to school
• Providing information
• and resources to parents
• Making families
• welcome at school
• Effective parent
• conferences
• dos and donts

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• Endnote
• Opportunity is missed by most people because it
  is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
• Thomas A. Edison