1. Professional Development
by Marissa Engelhard
2009-2010

2. Professional Development Opportunities
Lutheran Educator’s Conference - CA
Apple Education Conference - Phoenix
Apple One-to-One Lessons - Tucson

3. Lutheran Educator’s Conference - CA
Google Earth - Faith Las Vegas
Support for Students with Learning
Disabilities - Faith Las Vegas
Technology Teacher Toolkit by Perry
Bresemann

4. Google Earth
Free download from Internet
Application (program) that allows students
to “fly” around the globe
http://earth.google.com/
Can look at different buildings, pictures,
movies, and much more from around the
globe

5. Support for Student with Learning Disabilities
Value of Early Identification
What are signs of a learning disability?
How can you help?

8. Introductions
Kirsten Lopez
lopezk@faithlutheranlv.org
Paula White
whitep@faithlutheranlv.org

9. Objectives
•ID markers for learning disabilities
•Discover 3 ways LD impacts a students ability to
learn
•List 3 strategies that can help LD (and all) students
be more efficient
•Experience what it feels like to have a learning
disability

10. Value of early
1. Allow for earlier intervention
2. Allows for remediation
3. Saves years of struggle
4. Allows us to carry the message to more students

11. What is LD?
A learning disability affects the way
kids of average to above average
intelligence receive, process, or
express information, and lasts
throughout life. It impacts the ability
to learn the basic skills of reading,
writing, or math.
©2000,2002 Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation

12. What a Learning Disability is Not
•Attention disorders, such as Attention Deficit/
Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD), and learning disabilities
often occur at the same time, but they’re not the same.
•Learning disabilities are not the same as mental
retardation, autism, hearing or visual impairment,
physical disabilities, emotional disorders, or the normal
process of learning a second language.
•Learning disabilities aren’t caused by lack of
educational opportunities, such as frequent changes of
schools, poor school attendance, or lack of instruction in
basic skills.
• ©2000,2002 Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation

13. What to look for…

14. Preschool
•Speaks later than most kids
•Is unable to find the right word when carrying
on a conversation
•Can’t rapidly name words in a specific category
Ex: name all the animals you can think of
•Has difficulty rhyming
This can be a marker for reading problems
•Has trouble learning the alphabet, days of the
week, colors, shapes, numbers
•Is extremely restless and easily distracted
•Can’t follow directions or routines
•Difficulty adapting to changes in routine
• ©2000,2002 Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation

15. Grades K–4
•Is slow to learn the connections between
letters and sounds
•Can’t blend sounds to make words
•Makes consistent reading and spelling errors
•Has problems remembering sequences and
telling time
•Is slow to learn new skills
•Has difficulty planning
©2000,2002 Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation

16. Grades 5-8
•Avoids reading and writing tasks
•Is slow to learn prefixes, suffixes, root words, and
other reading strategies
•Avoids reading aloud
•Has difficulty with word problems in math
•Spells the same word differently in a single piece of
writing
•Has difficulty remembering or understanding what she
has read
•Works slowly
•Has difficulty understanding and/or generalizing
concepts
•Misreads directions and information
• ©2000,2002 Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation

17. 1. Trust your instincts
2. Maximize potential
3. Make students more
efficient

18. What to do…

19. Movie Time
Auditory Input

20. Movie Time
Auditory Input

21. Strategies
•Write the objective on the board = making the
target clear
•Emphasize key points
•Preferential seating
•Allow headphones for seat work
•Braingym.com

22. Reading Activity:
Input/Output

23. Reading Stats
•Only 5% of children learn to read effortlessly.
•90% to 95% of poor readers can increase reading skills to
average reading levels through prevention and early
intervention programs.
•88% of poor readers in first grade have the probability of
being poor readers in fourth grade.
•75% of children who are poor readers, who are not
helped prior to age nine, will continue to have reading
difficulties through high school. 10% to 15% of children
who have difficulties learning to read will drop out of
school; only 2% complete a four-year college program.

24. Strategies
•Dibels for free assessment https://dibels.uoregon.edu/
•Assess verbally
•Spread work out on a page. Do not give single space
•Readthewords.com
•Audio books
•See it Right or Irlen (colored overlay testing)
• http://www.seeitright.com/
• http://irlen.com/index.php

25. Writing:
Output

26. Strategies
•Chalk activities
•Writing on the board (shoulder muscles)
•Draw me a picture
•Grid paper
•Use of a calculator
•Audacity.com
•Consider consultation with an OT if problem persists
•Need to remediate early!

27. Objectives
•Id markers for learning disabilities
•Discover 3 ways LD impacts a students ability to
learn
•List 3 strategies that can help LD (and all) students
be more efficient
•Experience what it feels like to have a learning
disability

29. 3 things to try
•Verbally assess
•Draw me a picture
•Give extra time

30. Give one/Get one

31. Something to Ponder
Grades
What does a grade represent?
Compliance versus knowledge acquisition

32. Resource: What We Do
•Academic support
•Nutrition education
•Balancing/coordination
•Problem solving
•Lost lunch cards
•The button falling off your pants
•Social thinking
•Group building
•Collaborate with teachers and parents

33. Resource: What We Do
•Academic support
•Nutrition education
•Balancing/coordination
•Problem solving
•Lost lunch cards
•The button falling off your pants
•Social thinking
•Group building
•Collaborate with teachers and parents

34. Technology Teacher Toolkit
20 Tools for the 21st Century Teacher
Additional Tools
Resources

35. 20 Tools for the 21st Century Teacher
Keyboarding in word processing in a timely manner
Use spreadsheet program to compile grades
Use database program for data
Use electronic presentation software
Navigate and search the Internet
Design and maintain a web page
E-mail to communicate
Operate a digital camera and use images
Know the basics of computer networks and school networks
Manage computer files

36. 20 Tools for the 21st Century Teacher
Download software from major companies
Install computer software
Use online teaching tools (ex. Moodle)
Use videoconferencing tools (ex. Skype)
Use disks, CDs, USB drives, Zip disks, DVDs
Use a scanner and OCR
Use a PDA
Know the deep web and use it as a resource tool
Know copyright issues
Know security issues

37. Additional Tools
Digital Photography
Fundamental Operations
Podcasting (ex. iTunes
Productivity Tools
University)
Web Literacy
Skype
Classroom Technology
Screen casting
Management and Use
Primary Sources
Wikis
Social Networking
Blogs and RSS Feeds
Second Life (Virtual
Digital Storytelling
Worlds)
Google Earth
Webquests

38. Resources
Iteachlearn.lspwiki.net
http://21stcenturysoth.wikispaces.com
wiki.luthed.org
MTM Project - www.mtmproject.org

39. Apple Education Conference - Phoenix
How will the server support our school
ministry?
Student Communication with iChat, Mail,
and iCal
Easily share files and templates with
students for projects
Create videos with Podcast Capture -
automated system

40. Apple One-to-One Lessons
Provide individual instruction for the uses
of the MacBook
The lesson is set by you in terms of pace
and topics
I am available Monday, Tuesday, and Friday
from 3:00-6:00 for lessons

41. Questions?
marissa.engelhard@cuw.edu