ALDI Workshops

ALDI Live Classroom 

ALDI Workshops

ALDI Live Classroom

Live Classroom Series for Teachers in a Resource Role 2009-2010

• Wednesday October 14 - IEPs and the Inclusive Classroom (ALDI: Diana Carr)
  
• Thursday November 12 - Multi-Modality Strategies for Diverse Learners: What Resource teachers need to know (ALDI: Diana Carr)
  
• Tuesday December 14 - Socio-economic factors and the impact on our school population (NANS)
  
• Wednesday January 13 - Behaviour (CoE BM: Eva DeGosztonyi)
  
• Thursday February 11 - ASD in your schools (TBA)
  
• Tuesday March 9 - Strategies to support Students with ADHD (ALDI: Diana Carr)
• Wednesday April 14 - Advice from SLP CoE on how to support students with language based learning difficulties (CoE SLP)
  
• Thursday May 13 - A response to Brain Trauma (ALDI: Diana Carr)
• Tuesday June 8 - Software and ICT in the inclusive classroom (TBA)
  

Live Classroom Series for Attendants and Technicians 2009-2010

• Tuesday September 29 - Increasing student autonomy by using visuals (ALDI: Diana Carr)
• Thursday November 26 - How to avoid hovering, smothering and verbal bombardment (ALDI: Diana Carr)
• Wednesday January 27 - Looking at language development and strategies for language stimulation (TBA)
  
• Tuesday March 23 - Introduction to ASD (TBA)
  
• Thursday May 27 - Responding to challenging behaviour: Strategies for ignoring, de-escalating and redirecting (TBA)
  

Topics will include ...
Understanding and Supporting Students with ADHD
Autism Spectrum Disorders
The Adolescent Brain
Building Attachment for Successful Relationships
Speech and Language Challenges
…and many more

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ALDI Workshops

Strategies and Tools to Use When Supporting Students with ADHD - presentation

Building Collaborative Teams

A look at how building a collaborative school based team can address issues as they emerge, provide the platform to develop action plans and follow-up, all while ownership and control stays with the referring teacher. This model offers support and assistance while drawing on the expertise and resources available at the school.

Building Collaborative Teams - presentation
Building Collaborative Teams - handout
Building Collaborative Teams - slides

Using Multi-Modality Approaches to Address Difficulties in Learning

This presentation looks at reasonable methods to develop student skills by utilizing their sensory capabilities. All students learn through their different learning style and we as educators need to understand and respect these styles.

Using Multi-Modality Approaches to Address Difficulties in Learning - presentation
Using Multi-Modality Approaches to Address Difficulties in Learning - handout

Learning in Safe Schools

The title refers to the book by the same title, written by Canadian Faye Brownlie, which is also listed on the ALDI Library. This presentation takes you through the key points addressed in the book. Once you have gone through this presentation with a group they will have a strong understanding of why they will want to add this resource to their reference library.

Learning in Safe Schools - presentation
Learning in Safe Schools - handout

Building your Strategies

A more in depth look at the strategies that can be used when meeting the multi-modality learning styles of students. This presentation along with the handout provides an base understanding on the importance of meeting the needs of the students. The strategies provided are quick and easy to use.

Building your Strategies - presentation
Building your Strategies - handout
Building your Strategies - slide handout

The Inclusive School

A brief overview on the move to Inclusion, what it should look like and why we need to build this into the culture of our schools. Based on the works of Faye Brownlie and Judith King.

The Inclusive School - presentation

How to Better understand our Students Struggling with ADHD

What we need to know and understand about ADHD in order to effectively support the 3-5% of students in our classrooms with Attention Deficit Hyper-Activity Disorder. ALDI looks at some of the current research and provides a few key resources for educators.

How to Better understand our Students Struggling with ADHD - presentation
How to Better understand our Students Struggling with ADHD - handout

Response to Trauma - An overview of the latest work of Dr. Regalena Melrose

As Educators we need to consider the brain and how it responds to Trauma. How many of our students face their school day is a reflection of the trauma they have experienced in their lives.

Response to Trauma - presentation
Response to Trauma - handout

Building An Inclusive School by Establishing Community and Collaborative Teams

(As presented at "Let's Meet on the Island", February 20th, 2009)
Building the culture of a School as a community will more effectively promote an inclusive school setting. Key in fostering that inclusive school setting is having school based teams that work collaboratively. This presentation and handout looks at different ways to promote this model.

Building An Inclusive School - presentation
Building An Inclusive School - handout
Building An Inclusive School - slide handout

Teachers Helping Teachers

This takes the collaborative problem solving team approach as established by Dr. Gordon Porter and modifies it to be used in an Adult Education Centre setting. This model can support the challenges educators face by drawing on the expertise and resources available at the Centre.

Teachers Helping Teachers - presentation
Teachers Helping Teachers - handout

Co-Teaching

(As presented at the Learning Partners Symposium, February 10th, 2009)
When you have two individuals simultaneously delivering instruction to a diverse group of students in one place, you have an example of Co-Teaching. This presentation looks at the pros and cons while providing the different models of Co-Teaching currently used.

Co-Teaching - presentation
Co-Teaching - handout

Making Every Child Count

(As presented at the Learning Partners Symposium, February 9th, 2009)
Tips and tools are provided for working with all learners in today's inclusive classrooms. The research provided supports what we know and need to know to continue helping our diverse learners.

Making Every Child Count - handout

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