Teachers Resource Guide This Guide is a reference for teachers who teach students with disabilities and are looking for some new things to try in with their instructions to motivate and support learning the learning process.

Teacher Survey Purpose This teacher survey is designed to get you thinking about your beliefs and teaching styles as an educator. Picture Implementation You can create similar surveys to use with your staff members to get them thinking about thinking about their teaching styles. Surveys can also be used with students as formative assessments. There are many online survey sites you can use besides Google Doc Forms.

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https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEpVTzRlVERBR050NmMtV0JQSVNVcmc6MQ

Learning Style Surveys Purpose We all learn differently and students often struggle with how to learn and study material. These links are just a starting point if you dont like the ones listed here Google Learning Styles Inventories. Click on < 1 of 11 > to view all sites in fur.ly link Look at picture red arrow . LINK http://fur.ly/6rt2 Picture Implementation Explore what is out there and find an inventory you can use with your students to determine their learning styles. Web 2.0 Tool: http://fur.ly is a great site to short several URLs that you want to share at one time.

Purpose Find your strengths in learning.

Learning Style Inventory Picture

Implementation Use with students to determine their strengths in learning.

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http://www.literacyworks.org/mi/assessment/findyourstrengths.html

Purpose This site will help guide you in teaching strategies to teach lessons using different learning styles.

List of Activities for Learning Styles Picture

Implementation Use for ideas to implement teaching to different learning styles.

LINK http://www.brighthub.com/education/k-12/articles/79912.aspx What is it: Special education students often develop learned helplessness. Students displaying this tendency often begin to expect failure after not succeeding academically. Students may also expect someone to come to their aid or feel that nothing they do matters in terms of the outcome of an assignment. Students with learned helplessness often feel theres no connection between their own actions and achievement outcomes. Success or failure, in their eyes, is beyond their personal control.Past successes and how they were achieved, The factors within their control (getting extra help, studying, strategies to compensate for learning disabilities, etc.) New support structures or things they could try All the other strengths and areas of competence they have (keeping the failure in perspective) How mistakes are good, expected, and are opportunities from which to learn--not things to be avoided. Stress strategies and improvement rather than specific level of performance

Possible responses "I know you can do it" "I'll start it for you, then you can finish it" "What strategies have you already tried?" "Let's find a way you can do this yourself" "How could you get more help with this? Steps for helping in the classroom 1. Show how to find answers. (i.e key words, bold faced words) 2. Give opportunities to use different types of representation of work. 3. Reduce the number of problems or questions to the ones that highlight what is part of the lesson being taught. 4. Provide outlines of notes that are part fill in the blank. 5. Provide choices as to how to complete an assignment. This gives them an opportunity to feel in control

Learned Helplessness: Getting Past Learned Helplessness for Children Who Face Severe Challenges: Four Secrets for Success By:Linda J. Burkhart Purpose Picture Implementation This PDF File gives four Use this article to spark secrets for success when ideas to help with dealing with students unmotivated students who that seem to feel they seem to have learned cant learn. helplessness.

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http://www.lburkhart.com/learned_helplessness.pdf

Motivation Purpose This Online site is a resource of strategies to help motivate students. He also has a book The Motivation Breakthrough. Picture Implementation Read and learn several reasons for lack of motivation / learned helplessness and how to help students become motivated in their educational process.

LINK USA Today BOOK LINK

http://www.ricklavoie.com/motivationbreakthrough.html http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2007-10-03-lavoie-motivation_N.htm http://www.amazon.com/Motivation-Breakthrough-Secrets-Turning-Tuned-Out/dp/0743289609

Purpose This site article provides information on the wrong kind of praises and how they can create selfdefeating behavior and the right kind of that motivates student to learn. LINK PDF LINK

The Perils and Promises of Praise Picture

Implementation Read and learn to give the right kinds of praise to your students. Get students to think in the right mind set to learn.

http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/oct07/vol65/num02/The-Perils-and-Promises-ofPraise.aspx http://www.nta-stockholm.se/fileadmin/NTA/Perils-and-Promise-of-Praise.pdf

Purpose This site has many teaching resources to use in your classrooms.

Kathy Schrock Ed Tools Picture

Implementation Educational tool to use in your classroom. From presentation sites and beyond.

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http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/edtools.html

Purpose This site provides way to differentiate instruction.

Curricular Sites to Support Differentiation Picture

Implementation Use to help determine how you might modify or accommodate curriculum and or instruction.

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http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listdifferendr.html

Accommodations Checklist PurposeAny student with an IEP or 504 can get special accommodations to help that individual access the curriculum. This site provides a comprehensive list.

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Implementation Use this site to assist when looking for appropriate accommodations for your students.

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http://www.ed-center.com/accommodations

Online Survey Tools For Schools Purpose This site provides a list of survey sites school sites. Picture Implementation Learn about these survey tools and see which are best for you to use with your class.

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http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/software/page10744.cfm

Marzanos Nine and 21st Century Learning Tools ( Livebinder Collection) Purpose Picture Implementation This source Use this site to contains learn about resources Marzanos Nine to related to implement his Marzans Nine strategies in your st and 21 classroom. Century Learning tools. LINK http://www.livebinders.com/play/play/218630 LIST OF LINKS IN WORD DOC DOWNLOAD surry.k12.nc.us/videos/InsTech/tech%20resources.doc

Web 2.0 Tools and Online Resources: Online Survey Tools LINK http://www.surveymonkey.com/ LINK http://www.zoomerang.com/ LINK http://www.polleverywhere.com/ LINK http://polldaddy.com/ LINK Http://googledocs.com http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/software/page10744.cfm LIST OF LINKS

Learning Style Inventories LINK LINKhttp://www.literacyworks.org/mi/assessment/findyourstrengths.html http://www.edutopia.org/multiple-intelligences-learning-stylesquiz?utm_source=google&utm_medium=text&utm_term=quiz&utm_campaign=0112quiz&gclid=CLmKhe-P060CFcfe4Aod_Wwbmw http://www.personal.psu.edu/bxb11/LSI/LSI.htm

LINK LINK http://www.learning-styles-online.com/inventory/ LINK http://people.usd.edu/~bwjames/tut/learning-style/ LINK http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html LINK http://www.howtolearn.com/learning-styles-quiz LINK http://www.schoolfamily.com/school-family-articles/article/836-learning-styles-quiz LINK http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=younger LINK http://kids.lovetoknow.com/wiki/Learning_Style_Test_for_Children LINK http://www.greenville.k12.sc.us/hillcrm/lstyles/ LINK http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/03/lp319-01.shtml http://www.brighthub.com/education/k-12/articles/79912.aspx LEARNING STYLE ACTIVITY LINK

Motivation / Learned Helplessness/ Praise LINK LINK LINK LINK LINK LINK LINK LINK LINK Linkhttp://www.lburkhart.com/learned_helplessness.pdf http://www.ricklavoie.com/motivationbreakthrough.html http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2007-10-03-lavoie-motivation_N.htm http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/oct07/vol65/num02/The-Perils-and-Promises-of-Praise.aspx http://www.nta-stockholm.se/fileadmin/NTA/Perils-and-Promise-of-Praise.pdf http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/motivate.htm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM-ItBe3VEo&noredirect=1 http://teaching.monster.com/benefits/articles/8019-6-motivation-techniques http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/motivate.htm http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Motivation-Miracle-Program

Shorten URLs Tools LIST Of LINKS http://www.toprankblog.com/2009/01/11-best-url-shortening-services-vote-your-favorite/ LINK http://fur.ly/ LINK http://tiny.cc/ LINK https://bitly.com/ LINK http://tinyurl.com/ LINK http://goo.gl/ LINK http://ow.ly/url/shorten-url

Differentiation Instruction / Accommodations / Modification LINK LINK LINK LINK LINK LINK LINK LINK LINKhttp://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listdifferendr.html https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos?page=1&categories=grades_9-12,topics_differentiation http://www.ed-center.com/accommodations http://www.brighthub.com/education/k-12/articles/79912.aspx http://knowledge-by-design.com/ http://performancepyramid.muohio.edu/Differentiated-Instruction.html http://www.k8accesscenter.org/training_resources/differentiationmodule.asp http://www.byrdseed.com/differentiator/ http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/strategy/strategy042.shtml

Marazons Nine / Other Teaching Resources LINK LINK LINK LINK LINKhttp://www.livebinders.com/play/play/218630 surry.k12.nc.us/videos/InsTech/tech%20resources.doc http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/edtools.html http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/Quiz+and+Poll+Tools http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listweb20s.html