What are the SHARE factors for the classroom? How do you use each of them in your
classroom?
Choose one of them and try to improve what you are already
doing in this area. How would you incorporate it into your lesson plans and
instruction. Try it and report back on
its success. (It does not have to be a
big plan, it can be as simple as a single strategy.)
Respond to two others.
The SHARE factors are Standards-based Curriculum and Instruction; Hope-building; Arts, Athletics, and Advanced Placement; Retooling of the Operating System; and Engaging Instruction.
ReplyDeleteSince I don't have a specific classroom, I'll talk about ways as a school psychologist that I'm connected to each SHARE area.
1. Standards-based--As a group, HPEC psychologists have provided state assessment scores to our interrelated teachers and to school principals in an effort to help target instruction. We have also worked with Spell/Read to provide feedback to our teachers working with select students.
2. Hope--In our meetings with students and their families, our teams have tried to start with student/family dreams for the future. We have tried to direct students, through projected courses of study and work/study, to academic routes that could help them achieve success in adulthood. In an effort to give hope, I give parents and students information about Section 504 accommodations available at college and differing agencies providing financial support at the post secondary level. The student or family should not have to give up hope just because the student has an IEP. I always try to remain positive with students and communicate that the teams assembled care about them and their success in school. I think that there has recently been an increase in hope due to the new federal policies directed at our undocumented students. Never deny the power of hope and, if we can give hope where there was none, we've done a good thing.
3. Art, Athletics, Advanced Placement--Our teams always try to encourage students to be involved in extracurricular activities and to support them in their attempts to stay eligible. This is an area, however, that has been affected by budget restraints. I applaud those schools who have held the line and realized the benefits of these programs to their students. Too many times, these are the areas cut and under appreciated.
4. Retooling--Our teams often try to look at the accommodations/modifications that will most benefit the students with whom we work and create plans providing them with opportunity for success.
5. Engaging Instruction--This is the one area that is perhaps the hardest to influence. I have attended Rick Wormeli's Differentiated Instruction inservice and have developed a Power Point to be presented at the next psych. meeting. I also have tried to include in our reports those accommodations that could specifically engage individual students and included specific student learning styles to help teaching staff be more engaging.
Alan, I always appreciate your support and encouragement in focusing on the "kids/students". Sometimes it's easy to forget an area or to get discouraged because we don't see much progress. It's good to get input from someone who can see things from a different perspective and I appreciate how much you care about the students and always are supportive of the teachers. Maybe you can share your Wormelli powerpoint via e-mail sometime.
DeleteAlan, although I have not had the pleasure of working with you during an IEP, I have been at various workshops and inservices you've attended. You always exemplify what we are trying to teach students - positive attitude, positive effort, acceptance, and being open-minded!
DeleteShare stands for-
ReplyDeleteStandards-based Curriculum and instruction
Hope building
Arts, athletics, and advanced placement
Retooling the operating system
Engaging instruction
I use the arts in my instruction as often as I can. As I teach 1st grade it is very helpful. Kids naturally want to express their ideas in many ways. I will often let students draw about something before they write about it, and I have seen an improvement in organization and sequencing in their writing. I also try to teach with music often. I find that it improves memory skills and attention. Body movement is also beneficial in instruction practices. Movement in general may help improve memory by giving a bodily connection to learning. Moving body parts across the midline is also beneficial to a child's learning and brain development. The most obvious reason to use movement is that it wakes them up, gets the blood flowing to the brain.
You have that rare opportunity to enhance the arts, etc. it was interesting to read both the book and read your supporting statements of memory skills and attention. It would be an awesome feat if schools could develop such creative programs for after school for the middle school. And I don't mean sports. An after school program for enhancement and not punishment, what an idea!
DeleteThat is so important to use art in the classroom. Kids need the fine motor skills to help them process lifes adventures. Moving the body is also an important concept when you are trying to get kids to learn. They do much better when they use their entire bodies not just their brain.
DeleteI agree that body movement is very important in a child's education. I have seen a difference in child that are allowed to move and those that aren't.
DeleteSHARE in the classroom: Standards based Curriculum and Instruction is how and what drives our IEPs. Hope Building is what effective teachers/adults should be doing every day. I've implemented creating and using personal "I" statements daily. For one student, it will be "I am a well organized student getting good grades." I believe in daily positive affirmation of what you hope to achieve will put resolve and belief behind those words. I'm hoping for student buy in. It will take time to tell, probably sometime this spring. Arts, Athletics, and Advancement Placement has been interesting to read. Intuitively I knew that it affected the brain and well being, but I never specifically knew how. During the springtime, I've always encouraged students to go out for track. Now it won't be for just getting outside but for brain growth! Unfortunately, this is one of the areas that could be cut back first, especially in the lower grades, when money gets tighter. Maybe school board members should be reading this book? Retooling of the Operating System is what we seem to be doing constantly. If something doesn't work, try something else. And lastly, Engaging Instruction can be a challenge when our students are from the tech/video game world. I have really enjoyed team teaching with our two English teachers. They bring such wealth of knowledge and ideas to share. I recommend team teaching a class to everyone.
ReplyDeleteI also like the "I" statements. Many of our students need to hear positive affirmations and learn to believe in themselves. That is really where hope building comes in to play.
DeleteI agree that school board members should read this book! I have been thinking about things like chess and music in the classroom. One thing I worry about, but shouldn't, is what people will think. Will they know I am doing something beneficial?
Thank you for sharing the "I" statements. I've been thinking of making {"I" can's} for my students.... maybe I can fill them with personalized "I" statements.
DeleteLike your idea of "I" statements - -when you say it, you start to believe it!
DeleteAlan-- I agree that the Rick Wormeli inservice was very insightful. Perhaps that powerpoint my benefit some of the interrelated teachers also.
ReplyDeleteStephanie-- I love the idea about "I" statements. It provides such a positive atmosphere.
Standards-Based Curriculum and Instruction: I write standards based goals and then teach them. If it is not a goal, but still a tested standard, I also teach it.
ReplyDeleteHope building: I encourage my students and try to provide them with hope every day. I explain why I believe they can do something, sometimes we have affirmative quotes that we talk about, and I give lots of positive feedback.
Arts, Athletices and Advanced Placement: The arts and athletics are so important, yet it is one thing my classroom and school lack. The elementary school has no art. They do have music and pe every day. The jr high and high school band program was cut about 6 years ago and will probably never come back. I definately need to find a way to implement arts more than I do. That is something I can think about over break!
Retooling of the Operating System: I like the CHAMPS system - It seems to include everything we need to do in order to bring out the best in our kids and allow them all of the opportunities they need for growth. We really can change their lives by making sure we provide for all of their needs.
Engaging Instruction: I wasn't surprised by the amount of high school kids who report being bored every day. My own children are in 8th and 10th grade and probably fall in to that category, even though they are good students. What an eye opener this chapter has been for me. I get very bogged down with making sure I get everything taught that I forget to make sure they can learn it at my pace. I really like the quote "You can teach faster, but students will just forget faster". The important thing is to engage them and make school more motivational for them. I can do this with projects and more physical activity very easily.
I am going to put more physical activity and projects in to my students' days. Even if it's easy as playing hopscotch to practice math facts or playing catch to practice sight words. I used to do these things but have forgotten how important they are.
Putting more physical activity and projects in your student's day will make such a big difference. However, you have to remember that some students no matter how much they need the physcial activities just can't handel the situation. It is important to monitor the students before picking the activities. I have done this before and the students got so excited it almost backfired on me. But using the body to learn is one of the best tools that teachers have.
DeleteI liked the author's take on kids getting too excited from physical activities. There were suggestions in Chapter 6 for calming activities as well.
DeleteI agree with you that it's tough to make sure you are engaging when working with kids. There is so much to cover and so little time, that I too, forget to be creative and in tune with "their needs" rather than "my goals".
DeleteThe SHARE factors:
ReplyDelete*Standards-based Curriculum and Instruction
*Hope-building
*Arts, Athletics, and Advanced Placement
*Retooling of the Operating System
*Engaging Instruction
Since I am going to start doing more teaming with one of the 4th grade teachers, we are going to try to incoporate more movement and art into daily lessons. Our school does not have and art class for the students and I believe they are really missing out. They also do not get daily PE classes. I attended an Affective Needs conference and the focus of that conference was to incorporate more movement into their day to help with behavior. We are going to try to do learning with movement and movement breaks. We also want to start an art club before school.
The art club sounds like an exciting program! I could see some students really getting into that.
DeleteAlan- retooling is essential, especially for students on IEPs. We need to be looking at their progress and their plans to ensure their continued growth.
ReplyDeleteStephanie- I like your idea of using "I" statements to help build hope with students. Accountablity is important in building confidence.
The SHARE factors are: Standards Based Curriculum & Instruction, Hope Building, Arts, Athletics & Advanced Placement, Retooling of the Operating System and Engaging Instruction.
ReplyDeleteI feel that one of my biggest challenges is Hope Building. I have a student who is in junior high who lives not only in a poverty situation, but home life is extremely rough. My SPED team, as well as other teachers, have been trying to encourage hope for the future. Right now it is really hard for this student to “see” a future and to feel hope that things will get better. We have talked about goals and that passing classes and doing well in school is a way to make things better. It is hard to tell if we can help this student realize any short term successes that matter. School is going okay; but life at home overpowers all else. This book and blog have given me some ideas. I plan to share the “hope” information with specific teachers who have this student.
I you luck in you endeavors. I have had children who have a really tough home life. It is often a challenge on how to give the child home about their life. I wish this book had been around several years ago when I had a whole classroom of children who lived under poverty.
DeleteDon't give up on this child!! You may not see anything right now, but it may surface later. I think too if you continue to follow up on this student even in the coming years, they may see you care and will make a difference in this child's life.
DeleteS=Standards based curriculum and instruction
ReplyDeleteH= Hope building
A= Arts, athletics, and advanced placement
R=Retolling of the operating system
E= Engaging instruction
Arts is one that I very seldom do. However, duing the Christmas season. I did an art project with my students. It wasn't very indepth but they still needed to make choices, use fine motor skills, and clean up after themselves. Which are all areas that my students need. I had them make picture frames for their parents. They first had to make a choice which picture frame would they like to decorate. They then had to pick the color of glitter to put on their frame. Then they had to use their fine motor skills along with problem solving skills to get the glue and glitter on their frame. At first I would just give them the materials and see what happened. I was amazed at how many of my students didn't understand that the glitter had to be glued on the frame and how many of them were unsure of how to get the glue out of the bottles. This just shows me at how far we have driven our students away from the basic skills of cutting, gluing, and decorating.
That's something that I wouldn't have thought of, with the cutting and gluing. I just take it for granted that students know how to do that, but even in Kindergarten, we've gotten to be so acadmics-oriented that some students don't even get the experience then!
DeleteA fine arts class such as music or art is a graduation requirement at Scott Community High School. It is surprising how talented students find out they are with a little guidance in these areas! It spurs their creativity and I think build confidence for them to try other ways of self-expression.
DeleteShare Factors for the Classroom are:
ReplyDeleteStandards-Based Curriculum and Instruction
Hope Building
Arts, Athletics, and Advanced Placement
Retooling of the Operating System
Engaging Instruction
When I work with students, I write goals based on the Common Core Standards. I try to select books and materials that interest the student and create activities for the students to do that meet the standards written in their goals with the books and materials selected.
Last year, I had a student who struggled turning in work. He was taking several college classes at the high school level, but he often procrastinated until the work was late. We started using part of his time to work on his writing assignments, sometimes using graphic organizers to get his ideas on paper. I would also help him revise and edit his work. This isn’t anything that’s earth shattering, but it’s what I could do to help him. Instead of just letting him struggle, I tried to help and give him hope. I encourage him to keep going and keep working.
I can’t say I do much with the A section. Many of my high school students are preparing for AP or Dual Credit courses. I often push my students to take a foreign language for reasons similar to those that the book gives for studying Arts. I think that having students study another language gets them analyzing language to an extent that it opens new pathways in the brain and makes them better learners.
I have a student who could use some help with Attentional Skils. He struggles with being organized and remembering what he needs to do. I would like to find ways to help him in this area. I think that would help him succeed in other areas as well.
Retooling to me means to focus on what is positive and make changes and improvements to the rest. It’s tough to make changes, but focusing on the good in the situation helps.
I feel like engaging instruction is something I do often. The main reason is that I work with students 1 on 1 or in small groups. With such small numbers, it is much easier to focus instruction on the students’ strengths or weaknesses and incorporate their areas of interest.
I would like to try to implement part of the CHAMPS acronym. I have a student who could use some help with Attentional Skils. He struggles with being organized and remembering what he needs to do. I would like to find ways to help him in this area. I think that would help him succeed in other areas as well. That will be a focus of our time together this coming semester.
The SHARE factors:
ReplyDelete*Standards-based Curriculum and Instruction
*Hope-building
*Arts, Athletics, and Advanced Placement
*Retooling of the Operating System
*Engaging Instruction
As a school psychologist, I too don't have a classroom to practice in, but do try to influence teams to use the common core standards, stay focused on capacity building and hope for each student, get kids involved in extracurricular activities that play to their strengths, make adjustments to fit the students, and encourage engaging strategies. The thing that most caught my interest in this Chapter was the AVID program for getting kids with low SES involved in advanced placement classes. We have these courses, but don't make a concerted effort to get students involved who might be the first in their family to attend college. This takes the Upward Bound idea to a whole new level. I plan to research more and share this with the high school teachers of these courses.
The SHARE factors:
ReplyDelete1 Standards-based Curriculum and Instruction
2 Hope-building
3 Arts, Athletics, and Advanced Placement
4 Retooling of the Operating System
5 Engaging Instruction
I also participated in a book study at Scott City School district on 8 to Great by Mueller. One of the keys to Mueller’s theories is the need for hope. I see students who have no hope, without hope they have no dreams, and without dreams they cannot picture themselves in a better place. I think building hope is so important for students at my level. They need hope to transition on to the next phase of their lives and be successful.
Most of the kids seem to live only for the day, maybe the weekend. But to think beyond high school seems tough. I'm glad they have you at the end of their career so you can help solidify some of those dreams, goals, and hopes. Thank you.
DeleteSHARE stands for:
ReplyDeleteStandards-based curriculum and instruction
Hope builidng
Arts, Athletics and Advanced Placement
Retooling of the Operating System
Engaging Instruction
I use standards-based curriculum by pulling from Common Core and Early Learning Standards to write goals. I am constantly encouraging kids to do their best (including speaking their best). Using encouraging words is a timeless simple gift. Using arts, athletics and advanced placement is probably my weakest area (especially advanced placement). I do have my students cut with scissors from time to time. Retooling the operating system: being a support service, I often don't get to see the kiddos as much as other teachers. Since I often work with them one-on-one, kids feel more comfortable talking about their life (and I encourage a lot of talking) so I can usually give teachers and administrators a different perspective on what might be happening at home. I also do home visits which is a birds' eye view. I can with others and we can brainstorm ways to "retool" their operating system. Engaging Instruction: this is something that I sure hope that I do a good job of. I try to work off of their goals but using their interests, building on their strengths while supporting their weakness.
One area I can improve on is Athletics. While I do a lot of oral motor activities, I don't generally take the time to let my little ones be active. I have a lot to get done in a little amount of time. I worked with a student earlier today and had him stand at my white board and be more active. I had a lot better compliance from him - and compliance is an issues a lot of the time.
It is easy to get so focused that one area gets left out. I also agree that being in the home give insights that often help in finding what is engaging for the child and what type of retooling skills are needed. You do a great job of creating engaging instruction.
DeleteStandards-Based Curriculum--I follow the Kanss Early Learning Standards to help create goals and rubrics for the children I work with.
ReplyDeleteHope Building--I encourage children to try and offer immediate feedback; sometimes this is clapping or saying "Bravo" for every little step.
Arts, Athletics, and Avanced Placement--I incorporate music and movement to teach and reteach skills; I try to incorporate higher level questions to generate thinking, and I attempt to use a variety of medium for children to explore with.
Retooling of the Operating System--I attempt to provide a systematic way of working on foundational skills.
Engaging Instruction--I work with the preschool teachers and parents to learn about the child and then use that knowledge to build on the child's interest; I also help facilitate child-directed learning.
The Head Start teacher and I got together and created a system of grouping children and dates to work with children on foundational skills. We also created a notebook to keep track of the children's progress. We just implemented this system in December. Early monitoring shows that the system seems to be working.
S- Standards-Based Curriculum and Instruction
ReplyDeleteH- Hope Building
A- Arts, Athletics, and Advanced Placement
R- Retooling of the Operating System
E- Engaging Instruction
I don’t actually have a classroom, but I have seen many of these factors implemented by the teachers I work with. The first example that comes to my mind involves ‘Engaging Instruction.’ The individual I’m thinking of teaches HS English/all of those related classes and is EXCITED about it. In Literature, this person does things like reading Shakespeare with all different voices, using hand/body motions, etc.; relates those works to current times so the students more easily understand what’s going on; takes every question into serious consideration (no matter how silly the question or how obvious the answer may seem); has the students explain their opinions rather than immediately forcing an answer on them; and strongly encourages classroom discussion/debate. I wish everybody could just see this person in action because nothing I type can give justice to what takes place in the classroom (I’m honestly really pumped when I get to go in and observe students in these classes, haha!). And although this person’s classes can be TOUGH, they (as well as the teacher) are consistently named as favorites among students I work with.
Dclodfelter~
That’s AWESOME to hear that you incorporate arts/music so much into your everyday activities. So many schools are completely doing away with those types of programs, so it’s great that your kiddos will still get those experiences in your classroom.
Stephanie~
I was also impressed by all the benefits physical activity provides to the brain. I knew exercise was good, but I guess I didn’t realize the full extent of its goodness (Haha!). Part of my thesis in grad school dealt with the higher achievement of smaller schools as compared to larger schools, what qualities might attribute to that, their effect on college enrollment, etc. After reading this book, it got me to thinking that maybe our sports programs played a bigger role than what I gave them credit for. In smaller schools (Well, in mine at least), not too many extra opportunities are offered besides playing on a sports team. Consequently, 99% of the students were involved with sports in one way or another, year-round, from 6th through 12th grade, and often times, even longer.
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ReplyDeleteShare:
ReplyDeleteStandards-based curriculum and instruction
Hope building
Arts, athletics, and advanced placement
Retooling of the operating system
Engaging instruction
S: I use Standards-based curriculum by using the Common Core Standard to write my goals for my students.
H: Positive reinforcement is a key part of my student's session. I encourage them as often as possible.
A: I use music with my little ones, I teach them songs with their target sound/skill in it, and we use movement when possible. I have 'crafty' activities form time to time, but not too often. I also use a multi-sensory approach for some kids. This is one area I can improve upon.
R: I incorporate problem-solving and sequencing tasks into my sessions.
E: I try hard at providing engaging instruction. One-on-one foster's a good environment to engage students. I also try to incorporate their interests to help sustain their focus and attention.
Blhoryna--I am sure it is inspiring to see a teacher like that in action. Imagine if all of our students' teachers were so EXCITED to teach and put their everything into it, these children could grow!
Jerrie--Those children are lucky to have someone like you who cares so much and builds their confidence and helps children identify their hopes and dreams. Some of those hope building skills can easily be forgotten when teaching.
Standards - based curriculum and instruction: I use the KS standards in my classroom to teach my study skills classes. I also use KS and common core standards to write the goals in my IEP's.
ReplyDeleteHope building - I use positive feedback and for some of my students who are really low stickers and smilie faces.
Arts, athletics, and advanced placement - Many times in my study skills classes will complete art projects as part of a unit we are working on or bring in music when I can.
Retooling of the operating system - I have some kids in my study skills classes that are lower functioning. We do some novel units which for them are advanced. They do all kinds of activities, projects, and creative things to help them retrain their brains.
Engaging instruction - I always try to have my students involved in the lessons. For the most part I try to have them moving, talking, writing, drawing or something to keep their attention and intrest.
I have tried to include more arts, athletics and AP material in my lessons. I saw great participation and students came into class still talking about what we had done the day before.
Stephanie - I like the concept of the I statement. It is not only encouraging, but also makes the person responsible for their actions.
Jerrie - you are right many students come to school with no hope. They see how everyone and everything around them is and give up.
Classroom SHARE factors are: Standards-based curriculum and instruction-I base my instruction/goals on Early Childhood State Standards, Hope building-I try to be positive and encouraging while working with all children, Arts, athletics, and advanced placement-I try to encourage others to use a variety of media to teach children, Retooling of the operating system-I think just building a relationship with the children I work with is important to "retool" a child's operating system, Engaging instruction-I try to learn and use new and innovative ways to teach children in they ways they learn best.
ReplyDeleteUsing Arts, athletics and advanced placement is the area that I am weakest in. Since I don't have control of my own classroom, I am trying to help the general ed teachers incorporate more "athletics" into what they do. I have been giving one group of teachers more ideas on how they can incorporate more organized activities when they go to the gym. It has been difficult for them to change, but I keep encouraging them and coming up with activities for them to use.