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Learning Supports
This section is devoted to information and resources that families can access in order to offer learning supports [including non-academic barriers to learning] to their children.
Below are links to information and resources regarding learning supports:
ACADEMICS
These are a small example of possible web links and merely samples to begin your journey in exploration of supports.
BEHAVIOR
Positive behavior support strives to use a system to understand what maintains an individual’s challenging behavior. Students’ inappropriate behaviors are difficult to change because they are functional; they serve a purpose for the child. These behaviors are supported by reinforcement in the environment. Functional assessment clearly describes a behavior; identifies the contexts (events, times, and situation) that predict when behavior will and will not occur, and identifies consequences that maintain the behavior. It also summarizes and creates a hypothesis about the behavior, and directly observes the behavior and takes data to get a baseline. The positive behavior support process involves goal identification, information gathering, hypothesis development, support plan design, implementation and monitoring.
Links for families and community members on behavioral supports:
LITERACY
In 1997, Congress recognized that too many children were reading below grade level. Because children's reading ability is critical to their overall success in school, this was simply unacceptable. Congress directed the creation of the National Reading Panel to reevaluate educational research and give our teachers and schools a roadmap to address this problem.
The Panel found that for children to be good readers, they must be taught:
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phonemic awareness skills - the ability to manipulate the sounds that make up spoken language;
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phonics skills - the understanding that there are relationships between letters and sounds;
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the ability to read fluently with accuracy, speed, and expression; and
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to apply reading comprehension strategies to enhance understanding and enjoyment of what they read.
Links for families and community members on literacy:
TECHNOLOGY
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