That's Totally Tool
A teacher may provide this type of break to help a student or group regulate energy and refocus.
What is a movement break?
This legal document outlines special education services for students with disabilities who attend private or religious schools.
What is an IESP (Individualized Education Services Plan)?
This multi-tiered framework provides different levels of academic and behavioral support to help all students succeed.
What is MTSS? (Multi-Tiered System of Supports)
Every Academic Support teacher must check this daily for both internal and external communication.
What is their Yeshivah of Flatbush gmail?
This part of a lesson plan clearly states what students should learn by the end of the lesson.
What is the objective? (or AIM)
These small objects, such as marble sliders and foam blocks, help students stay engaged by providing sensory input.
What are hand fidgets?
These changes help students access learning in a way that works best for them, without changing the content or expectations
What are accommodations?
These higher-level cognitive skills help students plan, focus attention, remember instructions, and manage multiple tasks successfully.
What is EF? (Executive Functioning)
Teachers must take this daily and document it for every class or group they teach.
What is student attendance? (on the “Learning Plan/Sequence” Google sheet)
Teachers spark student curiosity and engagement by using hooks, thought-provoking questions, or real-world connections at the start of a lesson.
What is interest generation?
Teachers use these memory aids, such as acronyms, rhymes, or songs, to help students remember important information.
What are mnemonics? (or mnemonic devices)
his instructional approach adjusts the content (what students learn), the process (how they learn), or the product (how they show what they know).
What is differentiation?
This integral component of education helps students develop self-awareness, emotional regulation, and social skills to support their well-being.
What is SEL? (Social-Emotional Learning)
Reading this weekly update ensures Academic Support teachers stay informed about important department announcements, to-do’s, and deadlines.
"What is the “Friday Notes for Teachers” email?"
These state guidelines ensure all students receive instruction that meets grade-level expectations.
What are learning standards? (or What are NYS Next Generation Learning Standards?)
Students who have difficulty with handwriting or speech may use this type of technology to help them type, dictate, or communicate their answers.
What is AT / assistive technology?
This teaching practice provides temporary supports to help students learn new skills, with assistance gradually reduced as they gain independence.
What is scaffolding?
This instructional framework focuses on making learning accessible to all students by universally providing multiple means of engagement, representation, and expression..
What is UDL? (Universal Design for Learning)
Keeping this record of parent phone calls, emails, and meetings helps ensure clear documentation, follow-up, and accountability.
"What is a communication log?"
This instructional model shifts responsibility from the teacher to the student through 3 stages: explicit instruction/teaching modeling, guided practice, and independent work.
What is the Gradual Release of Responsibility (GRR) model? (or “I do, We do, You do”)
his tool helps students see the passage of time, making transitions and task completion easier to manage.
What is a visual timer?
This is the term for a learning environment where students receive support while being included with their peers and while having access to the general studies curriculum, as much as possible.
What is the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)?
This term refers to students who have been assessed and have been determined to have a disability under federal law.
What is SWD (Students with Disabilities)?
If a teacher will be absent, either planned or unexpectedly, who do they need to email.
Who are Tara & Jenny (Tara, Jenny, & Haya for JS)
This strategy helps teachers check for student understanding during the lesson, rather than waiting until the end.
What is formative assessment?