Education Links 4/9/15

Strategies for Strengthening the Brain’s Executive Functions

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/strategies-strengthening-brains-executive-functions-donna-wilson-marcus-conyers 

A Guide To Questioning In The Classroom

http://www.teachthought.com/learning/quick-guide-questioning-classroom/ 

What Are the Habits of Lifelong Readers, How do we Instill Them?

http://www.bamradionetwork.com/classroom-q-and-a/1790-what-are-the-habits-of-lifelong-readers-how-do-we-instill-them 

Understanding the Full Evaluation Process 

https://www.understood.org/en/school-learning/evaluations/evaluation-basics/understanding-the-full-evaluation-process 

How to Turn Any Classroom Into a Makerspace

http://www.edudemic.com/turn-classroom-makerspace/ 

How Memory, Focus and Good Teaching Can Work Together to Help Kids Learn

http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/04/09/how-memory-focus-and-good-teaching-can-work-together-to-help-kids-learn/ 

5 Excellent Free & Useful Apps for Teachers

http://www.frontlinek12.com/Products/Aesop.html 

 

 

 

 

Special Needs Tweets of the Day 11/22/13

1. Highlights From Our Wednesday Twitter Chat on Dyslexia
http://www.ncld.org/ld-insights/blogs/twitter-chat-dyslexia?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=FB&utm_campaign=Social_Blog_Posts

2. Getting kids to read: The 5 key habits of lifelong readers

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/11/14/getting-kids-to-read-the-5-key-habits-of-lifelong-readers/ 

3. Study links synaesthesia to autism

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24995232 

4. Talk It Up: Eight Ways to Have Self-Esteem Boosting Conversations About LD

http://www.ncld.org/parents-child-disabilities/social-emotional-skills/self-esteem-talk-about-ld-your-child?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=FB&utm_campaign=SocialForParents 

5. Theory finds that individuals with Asperger’s Syndrome don’t lack empathy – in fact if anything they empathize too much

http://seventhvoice.wordpress.com/2013/11/16/new-study-finds-that-individuals-with-aspergers-syndrome-dont-lack-empathy-in-fact-if-anything-they-empathize-too-much/ 

6. Response to Intervention (RTI)

http://www.wrightslaw.com/info/rti.index.htm 

7. Closed Captioned: Florida School for the Deaf and Blind

Grades 9-12, School Systems, Special Ed 

https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/school-for-the-deaf-and-blind-cc