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Using Sensory Tools In The Classroom

November 5, 2015 in Blog, default, Features Tagged: Behavior, Educators, Special Education

Using  Sensory Tools In The Classroom

Thank you to NEARI's Smoothies for the Brain author Penny Cuninggim for providing this article to share.Shannon Chabot, NEARI's coordinator and school consultant in the areas of sensory integration and reflex and motor development, hosts this blog and explains the importance of sensory development and learning. He built the list below that both provides teachers with some useful sensory tools and shares their impact on areas of learning readiness.Our nervous systems begin the process of … [Read more...]

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Creating a Culture of Collaborative Problem Solving at Seaport Academy

April 26, 2012 in Features Tagged: Differentiated Learning, Extended Learning, High School, Project Based Learning, Relationships, Special Education

Creating a Culture of Collaborative Problem Solving at Seaport Academy

Seaport Academy was recently recognized in The Navy Yard News, a quarterly publication of the friends of the Charlestown Navy Yard, as emphasizing collaborative problem solving and a curriculum designed to be flexible enough to meet the wide variety of learning needs presented by their students.Here is the story: “We’ve scrapped the usual style of ‘reward-consequence’ learning in favor of collaboration — students identify issues and help solve problems together,” says Alex Tsonas, Director … [Read more...]

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On Teaching Woodshop

April 19, 2012 in Best Practices, Features Tagged: Engagement, Relationships, Special Education

On Teaching Woodshop

When I tell people I teach woodshop to special needs students I am fairly certain to receive one of a couple of responses. Particularly when I first started, people would go on about what a noble thing I was doing. I don’t get that as much these days, and I don’t know whether that is a sign of the times or something about the way I now explain my work.People also tend to tell me about their own shop experience and how they still have this or that old shop project hidden away somewhere (that … [Read more...]

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