Special Education
This program is the basis for our Self-Regulation conversations with students and provides common language and strategies to use throughout the school.
What is "Zones of Regulation"?
Examples include monthly newsletters, group emails, edsby messages, shared student portfolios, class calendars, google classroom announcements, positive phone calls to parents.
What are methods of parent communication?
this definition refers to the teaching approach that emphasizes the significance of connecting the culture of students and their social situations with the school's curriculum.
What is Culturally Responsive and Relevant Pedagogy?
This is the practice of working with small, flexible groups of students based on on-going assessment
What is Guided practice?
Dr. Ross Tilley was famous for this type of experimental medicine on these patients.
What is plastic surgery for soldiers who were victims of burns?
Responsible for creating and implementing the IEP including academic, behavioural and other goals and assessment of these goals.
Who is the Teacher?
Feeling intimidated, language barriers, varied work hours and daycare are examples of these
What are Obstacles/barriers to parent engagement?
the practice of providing equal access to opportunities, resources and class participation for students who might otherwise be excluded or marginalized, such as those who are neurodivergent or have physical or behavioural needs.
What is Inclusion?
These are the steps of the 4 Step Problem Solving Method in math.
What are:
Understand the Problem
Make a plan
Work Out the Plan
Answer and Check /concluding sentence?
This company lets us know it's 2pm with their school-shaking explosions.
What is St. Mary's Cement?
Preventative strategies designed to keep a student included and engaged in classwork vs strategies to respond when they have had an incident or have left class.
What is Proactive vs Reactive?
This is a tool where teachers have students sit alongside them in a circle and talk about a prompt that the teacher gives. Students pass around a certain object and share their thoughts and feelings about that prompt to build a sense of togetherness and understanding in the classroom.
What is a "Community Circle"?
This is the first step to being able to be culturally responsive with your class.
What is getting to know your students?
TEEC is an acronym for reading responses that summarizes these components.
What are Topic, Example, Explanation, Conclusion?
Guinea Pigs
What is the name given to the soldiers who volunteered for Dr. Ross Tilley's experimental procedures?
Goal is to foster independence, these supports answer 2 questions:
Where am I supposed to be?
When will I get to do _____?
What are Visual Schedules?
"Filling up the bank" refers to this intentional act by teachers with parents.
What is making positive phone calls/communication before potentially having to make a negative one?
A year of learning outlining different user-friendly lessons on Indigenous Education each month found in the Indigenous Education tile on Edsby.
What is the Passport to Reconciliation?
Based on curriculum expectations and collaboratively created with students for each unit to outline expectations and indicators of progress for self-assessment.
What are Learning Goals and Success Criteria?
A Canadian-run POW camp for German Officers during WWII located in Bowmanville that included famous escape attempts.
What is Camp 30?
These are the Dos and Don'ts of Trauma Informed Practice.
What are; Create a Safe Space, Establish Predictability, Build a Sense of Trust, Offer Choices, Stay Regulated, Don't Punish
Daily schedule posted, classroom agreements and incentives, on-going assessments, guided groups, CRRP, engaging activities, high expectations, Community Circles: mindfulness activities, Zones of Regulation and self-regulation spaces are examples of these.
refers to the unconscious assumptions, beliefs, attitudes and stereotypes that human brains have about different groups. These learned mental short-cuts affect how we perceive and respond to people.
What is "Unconscious Bias"?
These are transferable skills to promoting student engagement also referred to as the 6 C's.
What are Character, Creativity, Collaboration, Communication, Critical Thinking, Citizenship?
This little known secret is buried under the bench outside the front of the school.
What are the ashes of Dr. Ross Tilley's widow?