Executive Function is a set of skills that control and regulate other skills, enabling us to manage everyday tasks. We cannot assume all students have mastered things like planning, organizing and problem-solving. By using strategy boards and other tools, we can embed executive function into our existing schedule and empower students to succeed.
- Pamela Farley
Students may prefer the kind of assessment that has 4 answer choices and bubbles, but quality instruction means asking them to create real-world whole language presentations. Criterion-referenced rubrics can help us set expectations, eliminate bias and quickly calculate a grade we can stand behind.
- Jennifer Bennett
We will explore various AI tools that can be used in lesson planning and educational tasks in an ASL classroom. Participants will have the opportunity to engage with these tools and address their individual needs.
- Bethany Davis
Discover how to design and implement choice boards that foster student creativity and growth in expressive, receptive and interpersonal communication. Students have options to ways to show the mastery of content while pushing to new levels in their academic growth.
- Rebekah Witt
Bethany Davis started us off with a target-language mindset, teaching how to review various techniques for an effective ASL immersion classroom and helped us select one to apply in our classrooms.
Jennifer Bennett presented on how to design and implement projects that foster creativity and expressive language through relevancy, frequent checkpoints, clear expectations, transparent grading, good examples and creative freedom.
We finished our day with a presentation from Rebekah Witt who showed us how to analyze classroom practices of intervention and extension.
Pamela Anderson graciously served as our emcee for the day.
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