exceptional alice my world and the worlds of alice collide melissa pearson west ashley high school
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Exceptional Alice
My World and theWorlds of Alice
Collide
Melissa PearsonWest Ashley High School
In My World
A 19 year old loves Barney.
In My World
Supported employment and living at home are the ultimate goal.
In My World
The exact same skills are taught daily. (Lather. Rinse. Repeat.)
Data is collected but the increases are few and far between.
Something needs to change.
The Facts Trainable Mentally Disabled Student
I.Q.s below 50 learn personal living skills work in supported settings
restaurants, retail stores and sheltered workshops
Reading and Mathematical Levels First or second grade level Most use picture symbols
to read
The Facts
Direct instruction- studies have shown that this is the most effective pedagogy for teaching this population
Teachers daily model skills, give guided practice and then the students practice independently.
Social Stories
Are tools for teaching social skills to children with disabilities, the most prevalent being autism.
Provide an individual with accurate information about situations that they may find confusing.
Social Stories Focus On
The important social cues The events and reactions the individual might
expect to occur The actions and reactions that might be
expected of them Why the event happens
Lining Up
At school, we sometimes line up.
We line up to go to the gym, to go to the library, and to go out to recess.
Sometimes my friends and I get excited when we line up, because we are going someplace fun like recess.
It is okay to get excited, but it is important to try to walk to the line. Running can cause accidents, and my friends or I could get hurt.
I will try to walk to the line.
http://www.polyxo.com/socialstories/introduction.html
Social Stories
The most common presentation style for social stories is text.
My World and Alice Collide
What do all of our students no matter the ability level love to do?
If text isn't the best way to present social stories then what is?
What would happen in an ideal world?
The Real World
In the past this is what they created: animation projects using Macromedia Flash that would stay in the confines of cyberspace never to be heard from again after assigned a grade.
Are your classes much different?
The Real World
What's so great about Mark Blacklocke's Programming Classes?
Create animated social stories Motivated to complete assignments Immediate product testing available with
honest feed back Best Practices for all at work.
Exceptional ALICE
While ALICE was written to be used in computer programming classes for one purpose its potential far outreaches the confines we have put on it. Much like our students.
Thanks
Steve Cooper RoxAnn Stalvey Mark Blacklocke and students Mary Runyon The Exceptional Wildcats