1. Engaging Parents of Students with Special Needs OCTOBER 13, 2016
PARENTS AS PARTNERS
Engaging Parents of Students with Special Needs OCTOBER 13, 2016

2. AGENDA WELCOME and INTRODUCTIONS LEARNING AT HOME
Guest Speaker – Peter Mercado, SELPA
Communication: Parent to Parent
Next Support Group: November 8, 2016

3. Let’s Welcome: Peter Mercado, SELPA
GUEST SPEAKER
Let’s Welcome: Peter Mercado, SELPA

4. Strategies to Support Common Core At Home
Presented by:
Peter Mercado, WESELPA Program Specialist

5. WESELPA Mission
The West End SELPA team works in collaboration with students, parents, school districts and community agencies to maintain communication, provide quality services, and ensure the provision of appropriate resources which support the education of all students with disabilities.
Today, as never before, it is essential that parents, students and staff work together to make certain that the appropriate services are provided on an individualized basis for every child with a disability.

6. Common Core: What is it?

7. How do we include all in instruction?
Universal Design for Learning
Multiple means of Perception
Multiple means of Expression
Multiple means of Engagement
Multi-Modal
How do I See, Hear, Do, Say, and Care?

8. Common Core English Language Arts
Key Shifts
Regular practice with complex text and its academic language
Reading, writing and speaking grounded in evidence from text, both literary and informational
Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction

9. Activities to Support ELA
Read with your child: Both Fiction & Nonfiction
Read aloud as your child reads aloud
Ask questions about how things are the same and different
Ask them to describe key characters or topics
Ask them to show you where in the text they found that information
Read more than one version of the same story or topic. Have them describe what is the same and what is different

10. More ELA Support Perseverance is as important
Help your child build reading stamina
Start small
Take turns reading; assign characters
Give incentives
Identify tools to overcome obstacles
Take short breaks
Use finger to track words while reading
Place bookmark horizontally under current reading line
Use dictionaries online or in word processing software

11. More Tools to Support ELA
Access free books from public libraries
Access free digital copies of books from public libraries online
Use free text-to-speech readers when you and your child cannot read together
Use free speech-to-text software (speech recognition) when generating ideas for writing

12. Common Core: Math Key Shifts Greater focus on fewer topics
Coherence: Linking topics and thinking across grades
Rigor: Pursue conceptual understanding, procedural skills and fluency , and application with equal intensity

13. Activities to Support Math
Play games that support math concepts
Where in this room can you find a (shape)?
What number am I thinking of? Give hints that require calculation.
Guess how many ______ are in this jar? Share techniques on how to estimate. Count items and have your child identify who was closest.

14. Strategies to Support Word Problems
Part
Whole

15. Part-Part-Whole
Supports problem solving to find where you started (X), what changed (Y), or what you end with (Z). X +/- Y = Z
Ask questions about the problem before attempting to solve:
What are they asking you to find?
What would you need to know?
Do you have the information to find your answer?

16. Part-Part-Whole Example
Ricky went shopping with $7. When he was done shopping he had $3. How much did Ricky spend? $4

17. Part-Part-Whole Example
Alicia has 2 pet fish in her fish tank. Today is her birthday and her parents gave her 3 more fish. How many fish does Alicia now have in her fish tank?
5 Fish

18. Integrated Activities
Baking from a recipe (with supervision)
Have your child read the entire recipe first
Have your child summarize the process
Ask your child to collect and measure the ingredients
For older children, ask them to bake a fractional batch of cookies.
“Follow this recipe but cut all the ingredients in half”

19. More Integrated Activities
Some Assembling is Required
Have your child read you the instruction and have them carry out the instructions when appropriate

20. More Integrated Activities
For older children, have your child assist you in paying the bills by asking them to find the amount owed and help with the calculations when balancing your checkbook. Create a pie chart of your monthly expenses.
Have your child help you create a budget for their birthday party, create a list of items to buy and an action plan of things to do

21. Resources
National PTA “Parents’ Guide to Success Booklet” available on line
Common Core State Standards Website

22. Questions?

23. Contact information: (909)

24. PARENT TO PARENT Social Media connection (closed Facebook page) Blog
Text (Remind 101)
Face to Face (like this)

25. THANK YOU! Next meeting is scheduled for November 8, 2016
9am -10:30am pm -7:30pm
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