For a few of my 7th and 8th grade students that receive special education service, under the disability of ASD, I have decided to try something new and flip their service this year. Instead of seeing them 1x a week during their social skills hour. I am now observing them in a general education class 1x a week and then meeting for about 10 minutes to discuss the observation with them. The hope is to get a better sense of the skills they are or are not using in the general education setting. That way we can reinforce generalization and target more specific skills that the students need to continue to work on. So far it has worked really well. The kids are receptive to discussing the observation, and making small social goals to work on for the next week. I have access to an Ipad this year, and I am able to take notes on it via the Google Drive App, while I'm in the class. I like this option a lot, because I can share the notes with the student's case manager, and social skills teacher (if they have someone different). I wanted to create a better document to share with the students and teachers. The one thing I have noticed is that if I create a google drive document with tables on the computer, when I go to edit the document on the Ipad it won't let me edit in the table section. Do you have any suggestions Emily?
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Social Skills General Education Observation Form
About Me
- Brianne Oachs
- I am one part of the middle school speech pathologist duo at Mounds View. I split my time between Chippewa, Highview, and Oak Grove. I just started my 5th year in the district. I absolutely love working with middle school students, and can't imagine working with another age group.
"Flipping" seems to have been really beneficial for kids so far based on your description. I like how you can type up observation feedback and share it instantly with both teachers AND students.
ReplyDeleteI'll look into the table edit problem and get back to you ;)