The Audacious Aspie Proves To Be a Resourceful Lad (Get it? Eh? Eh? Oh)
Welcome back to the Audacious Aspie. You liking it? Disliking it? You wondering why I’m talking to you like we're face-to-face and not screen to screen in the near future? Same here. I like the future aspect to this though (if she asks you out, say no. For the safety of mankind, say NO!). We’re back to looking at more resources for those with LD, maybe with less workshops. In any case, let’s move right along.
OTF, or Ontario Teachers Federation (if you're a student and a Star Wars nerd, you might see them akin to the Trade Federation), exists to help teachers...will, teach students with special needs (I guess it's all self-explanatory) by offering strategies and resources. It’s not all smiles and roses though (that’s how the saying goes, right?), as it caters to a niche audience. How niche? It only applies to Teachers, who teach in elementary and secondary schools, in Canada, in Ontario. It’s so niche, that if it wasn't the “for teachers” and “elementary and secondary schools” bit, it’d be hip.
This is how niche it would be, very niche. I'll never get tired of saying the niche. It’s niche to say niche. Niche.
What are the strategies and resources? Will, lots. Literally, lots. Three whole sections with tons of resources and teaching strategies labeled: Student Needs, Formal Exceptionalities Determined by IPRC and Diagnosed Medical/Psychological Conditions. Puts all the other sites we looked at to shame. As usual we will look at three things from each section rather than all of them. Otherwise we, will I, will be here a while. This will definitely be a multi-parter.
First up Aggression Management, which itself contains three sections as will. Three! This is going to be a long one. First one is instructional, which advises the teacher on how to impart knowledge to the aggressive student with advice like: “Use direct instruction/social skills lessons to teach appropriate ways to express anger. Establish baseline of current frequency of aggression and develop alternative programming goal on the student's Individual Education Plan. Use an Antecedent, Behaviour Consequence (ABC) chart” (paragraph one). And that was only a little bit! There's also an Environmental and a Assessment section. Il leave a link a link so you can go look at them.
It's like the arrows here: one arrow leads to several more, and all of THOSE arrows leads to several more, than all of THOSE arrows leads to even MORE. And all of THOSE...
Next blog post, we will see what is inside Exceptionalities Determined, besides more resources and strategies (good lord do they have a lot, a good thing though, I suppose). But I guess when you're dealing with kids and teenagers, you need all the help you can get. At least there isn't any workshops...yet. Until next time, this has been the Audacious Aspie (really really glad I’m not a teacher).
Sources used:
https://www.teachspeced.ca/teaching-strategies-students-special-needs
https://www.teachspeced.ca/teaching-strategies-students-special-needs?q=node/664