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CHAMPS
Are you feeling like the honeymoon stage is over with your students and they are not as easily meeting your classroom expectations?
If that is something that resonates with you, take a moment to assess how well your students are meeting the CHAMPS expectations for a particular instructional activity. If less than 90% are meeting the expectations, determine if there is a particular activity to target through more explicit instruction and acknowledgement with a classwide goal for meeting that expectation. If it is only a handful of students that are not meeting the expectations then you may want to consider the relationship you currently have with those individual students. If there is an opportunity to strengthen the relationship try using trust generators to build more rapport. Students are more likely to want to meet expectations when they feel a connection with adults.
Inclusive Practices
Do you have these questions about inclusive practices:
"Will children in the general education class be expected to help other children learn?"
"Is special education going away?"
"Why are we moving to inclusion? Has it ever been done before?"
"How can I, as a classroom teacher, possibly meet all the needs of children in one class if they are all different?
On September 29, 2021, we held our first session of a multi-part series on inclusion across D65, D67, and D115. Dr. Carol Quirk, from the Maryland Coalition of Inclusive Education, facilitated learning on the history of inclusion, the benefits of inclusion, and discussed what inclusion looks like in our schools.
If you were unable to attend this presentation it is a wonderful opportunity to hear the answers to common questions. Please see the linked presentation slides and the recording to watch it at your own convenience.
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