Sunday, October 28, 2012

Mind Steps - Oct. 15

Mind Steps

Reference Guide

Planning Sheet

English Unit Plan

Parents as Partners

Parents as Partners Handbook



Special Education Law

IDEA

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a law ensuring services to children with disabilities throughout the nation. IDEA governs how states and public agencies provide early intervention, special education and related services to more than 6.5 million eligible infants, toddlers, children and youth with disabilities.
Infants and toddlers with disabilities (birth-2) and their families receive early intervention services under IDEA Part C. Children and youth (ages 3-21) receive special education and related services under IDEA Part B.

ELL Resources

ESL for Students and Teachers
     This site is designed for both people who are learning or teaching English as a second language.  This site focuses on helping open up job opportunities and how to communicate in daily life.  There are games, quizzes and categories that are well-organized and easily assecible.

ESL Mania
     This site includes classroom materials, ESL teacher talk, idioms, grammar, accent reduction, business english, and much more for both students and teachers.

ESL Resources for Parents
    Parents can help facilitate their students learning if they are involved with the student.  This site offers ways that parents can get involved as well as giving teachers ways to reach out to parents.

Common Slang
     This site tells the meaning of "Common American Slang" words.  Slang is never something that I would have thought about when teaching ELL students, but I think it could be something fun or interesting to get ELLs involved in learning English.

30 ESL Resources
     This is an article that has 30 different links to free online resources and activites for ESL teachers.  Each resource has about a two sentence description.

Oct. 22 - 3 Resources

How to meet student needs
Connecting Schools and Parents
Grading Students with a Disability