AAC Table Talk
AAC Table Talk is a wonderful device made for students who need special help with getting their thoughts and feelings out.
Student Directed & Collaborative
Swivel or Knees Please
Swivel or knees please is a preventative tool that can be used in any classroom when the teacher would like all the students to stop what they are working on and face the teacher, giving their full attention.
Responsibility Action Plan (RAP)
This tool gives students a set of three questions that assesses their behavior and focuses on what they can change to improve their behavior. The questions include: “What specifically were you doing in class?”, “Are the choices you are making helping or hurting your success in this class?”, and “What could you agree to do differently today or tomorrow? Please be specific”. This allows the student to understand how their choices effect the students around them and gives them an opportunity to improve their behavior.
Planned Ignoring
Planned ignoring can be used when a child is off task and it is believed at the time that they may be able to correct their behavior themselves. It is helpful as a conscious first response to a slightly distracting situation that another response may draw more attention to.
Greeting Students at the Door
Greeting students at the door helps us as teachers know how our students are doing on that particular day. Students also know you are ready for a wonderful day of class.
Peer Ignoring
Peer ignoring is a valuable skill to teach students in the classroom which can help in reducing misbehavior’s. In order for it to be effective, the teacher must rehearse and practice it with the students. Essentially, it consists of students ignoring a classmate who is being either disruptive or distracting during class time
Inside Outside Circle
The inside outside circle is where the class is split in half and there is a big circle and a smaller circle on the inside where the students on the inside are facing the students on the outside circle and vice versa. The people on the inside stay in place and the people on the outside rotate to answer and discuss the teachers question s with new partners.
Popsicle Stick Mix-Up
Popsicle sticks can be used as finding partners in class. Since some students may not always have a partner in a class this makes sure that every student is getting someone new to work with.
Tangle Fidget
Some students have a hard time focusing on academics in the classroom and need a fidget tool. Research has proven by using a fidget device many students perform better academically and socially.
Team Poster
The team poster is an activity that is designed to build relationships between students.For this poster making activity you have two students hold a marker and have them try to make a picture between the pair, while being completely silent to allow imagination and creativity.
