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Tupelo Distance Education - aired June 12
Tupelo Distance Education - aired June 12
June 12, 2020

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>> good morning and welcome to another episode of distance learning 101 on abc wtva.

We have an extended show with special ed teachers and we're going to address our special ed needs this week, and things parents can do at home.

Thank you so much for being here.

What are we going to learn today?

>> we want to talk to you-all about fears parents have and things they can do at home.

A lesson on feelings and emotions is very important for kids going through a pandemic, schools shut down, we're not going restaurants any more, we're not getting to go outside as much.

We just thought this story would be great and get tips and tricks at home.

>> and for you, we're reaching to your students.

>> i think a daily routine is a very important aspect of school and lessons, inside and outside.

>> so we have the distance learning module set up at home.

Were you guys doing that with your students in the classroom or is that a little bit different?

>> i am partial to it.

Did a great job leading us in that and making sure that the format was what we thought easy for parents to follow to have resources at home that they could use.

Parents are scared that oh, my goodness i don't have classroom resources.

Learning is so much fun.

Learning is everything.

And i think ecec did a great job making sure kids had what they needed.

>> do you all have regular classrooms?

>> yes, sir.

>> what kind of participation did you have with students?

>> a lot of my students are individualized instruction and specific skills.

>> obviously, during spring break you've come back to a new normal, education start from scratch.

Is it more difficult with the younger students and middle school students?

These kids, i mean, they're learning school already and then their world is turned upside down.

>> our education is more important hands-on.

>> i agree with that.

Well, we're going to get started.

You're going to start with the lesson and we'll get your input.

>> today we're going to deploy a rainbow by dolly parton.

We'll focus on emotions and feelings.

And this can be you throughout the day with students who are non-verbal or limited speechwise.

They can go back to this chart and point or tell their parents i'm feeling sad today.

>> so you use this in your classroom that your encourage your parents to follow through at home.

>> at school we would focus on one emotion.

>> little dolly parton at the moment.

>> yes.

>> colors make up the world.

Everything we say or do is made of colors.

What we're doing is each identifies a color.

They're going to stop at each color, and you are going to create the motion on the chart.

Don't make me speak spanish.

I'll do the emotion you're reading.

>> it means i'm feeling.

As sweet as cotton candy.

A little girl is smiling.

What emotion do you think she's feeling?

>> do i need to draw a happy face?

>> is that a happy face?

>> looks good.

>> i can draw a stick figure.

>> and our next is red.

Ges what happens when my sister pulls my hair?

Then i turn red.

I'm as angry as a bear.

See his face.

He's angry.

>> perfect.

Great job.

When you're in the school year at home you can stop at each emotion and if you're child is verbally able to, they can tell you this is a time that makes me angry or happy.

>> you're expecting your feelings live.

>>> yes.

>>> i get bored and sad and i kind of feel blue.

>> get the color now.

>> yes.

>> and the great thing about this book, there's so many other skills.

Your hear rhyming.

That is huge right now in pre-k to understand those rhyming words and pick those out.

>> that's true.

>> sometimes i get and i'm feeling green.

That happens when i'm without.

>>> there's all special skills.

>> if you come to my birthday party, i'm fine.

>> that's such a good life skill in that.

We try to get our kids to understand is somebody taws me that.

If they come from somewhere, it's ok.

They came and you were celebrated.

>> that was the best present.

>> when i'm feeling scared just call me yellow and i can find my courage and be a brave fellow.

>> he's scared.

>> and we're back to pink.

When we all play together it makes me feel cozy and everything is rosy.

>> do kids pick up on the rhymes quicker and it makes them remember better?

>> when it's repetitive.

It's one of the hardest skills we do.

They have to produce the rhyme.

Our children have a great skill of listening to it.

We use a lot of thumbs up and thumbing down.

>> but how you act is a different deal.

It's nature's way which colors you chose so simply say i am a rainbow.

>> this is the perfect opportunity.

It's ok to have emotions, get upset.

It's how we express those emotions.

>> that's not just at school.

>> now, with your special needs students do you have the same approach or different styles used?

>> we use tentative instruction.

For students who are non-verbal, i would give them a blue and say can you match the blue with the sad face?

And that way you're able to see if they're successful.

Just because you're nona-verbal doesn't mean you're not understanding the skill.

Anything a special education teacher will tell you you may think your child is different but children are so much more alike than they're different.

Just because your child learns the way or the sibling in your house learns doesn't mean we take away from we teach them.

Learn how they learn and bring the same material.

We may teach a different way.

>> perfect.

All right.

We'll take a quick break.

When we come back we'll dive into more with our emotions on distance learning 101.

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>>> welcome back to distance learning 101 on abc.

I'm with the teacher and we just read a great book and learned to coordinate with our emotions, which i love.

I like when you place things together.

It really makes you feel like you've learned.

Common household items we can use for a lot of different things.

>> i tell everybody all the time environmental print is the most important thing at this age.

You have a source.

You can take your job to the greatest place ever, mcdonald's, get a happy meal and you have taught a whole lesson in five minutes while eating lunch.

You can go over shapes, letters, sounds, how did it taste?

Your feelings about it.

You don't have to go to mcdonald's.

It is important to have your conversations with your child.

How did we get here?

What way did we turn?

>>> driving and observant.

>> i brought some things from my house my kids use daily.

It's summer.

So if you put just a little bit into doing an activity it is a whole thing and it's not feeding at a table doing a work sheet.

>> can you address this?

>>> do you recommend keeping a schedule in place?

>> that way it looks different than school or at home.

Five minutes will be applicable for children just to get some academics in and we go back.

I think reading is just so easy and important.

Of course, we read a book by dolly parton.

She is so big about reading to children.

If you don't have books at your house, go to the library and get one.

You can use your phone and pull up a book to read.

>> so many resources out there.

>> today we mentioned emotions and feelings.

Even if you pull up your cellphone and go over emojis with your child and what each emotion stands for.

>> i brought this book from home.

It's called max the duck.

It is a simple sight word book.

One that we use.

And the greatest thing about it is you can talk about the book.

Wheres the cover of the book?

The back of the book?

Those are things we teach.

The size of the book, where's the title?

Where is the illustrator?

Who is the author?

You can have other skills just by looking at the cover, what do you think this book is about?

A dog.

Ok.

Say that, what do you think the duck's going to do?

Max, the duck.

Things right there that asking your children they are so far prepared for the school year it's just amazing the resource you've given your four year old going into school.

>>> you say a sight word book.

Tell parents what you mean by that.

>> a sight word book is a simple sentence.

It will repeat words over and over like, ask, am.

Those words are repetitive with the book.

The child looks at those words and sees them in different settings and starts making sentences with those.

>> the child reads the book and recognizes the words.

>> those are great teaching tools for children.

So at my house we might read this book two nights in a row.

And we would talk about it, talk about page numbers.

>> you're doing a lot.

>> you are.

You've incorporated a huge day of numbers, colors.

>> what did max wear?

Just in this book here, you have i am max.

If your children know the letters, we encourage them to point.

If you do that and model that they're going to keep that skill.

The next night we night read it together.

Every time i hit the word, i can encourage them to say that letter.

They're understanding that that letser a word.

>> got you.

>> then you'd go through a.

Point to it and have them say it.

It also keeps them paying attention to your book.

Asking simple questions at the end of it.

>> got you.

>> so you placed the book and review it.

>> they ask wh questions, who is in the book, what did max do?

Where did max go.

>> they're learning.

>> they are.

>> learning is so much fun.

At this age you can't have any more fun than using household items. and if you don't want to read that much, that's fine.

You have coloring books.

We have coloring books my kids use at home.

You can talk about coloring boundaries.

Boundaries are so important in life, but you can start at it at this age.

You have to stay within the boundaries.

That's a life lesson.

And taking our dream and finish it.

Taking your scissors, cutting is a huge skill.

And then the dreaded of all... glue.

Know how to be responsible with your glue.

Sometimes they dry out, so we always have a back up.

Just knowing and you don't have to school so hard.

You can take your emotions and parents can take this with them.

If your child is nonverbal or limited you can get this in your pocket and they go through it in your purse.

And it helps you.

>> now, you talk about cutting and letters.

Where are they in that process?

Do they know their letters?

Do they know their letters?

Have they been introduced to scissors?

>> it's case by case.

Sometimes they have print out sources.

Some haven't had exposure yet.

>> this is their first.

As a teacher, you have the skills and you have to bring those who haven't been introduced to that.

How long has it taken to get that class balance out.

>> they are all on the same page, but you close the bat.

And the greatest think about having and using instruction is your kids learn so much more from their peers.

So i love that our school incorporates inclusion classrooms. they're just not in self-contained classrooms. getting that instruction from teachers and a fantastic job making sure that our kids are in those classrooms. all are special education teachers.

They're getting that education instruction.

>> we only have like a minute left.

>> we have game night.

Go fish is a great fine motor skill and it always teaches kids how to win or lose.

You have to be a good winner and a good loser.

>> that's a tough one with the little ones.

>> it's a great game.

It's a great questioning game.

Answer yes or no questions appropriately.

Is your person a man?

Not just using the word man, male or female.

Those are vocabulary words.

>> why'd you pick these two games?

Because you had them at your house or the games you had the most success with?

>> i tling gofish is the most successful game.

During the year you'll find your kids can answer these questions better.

Start with that high order and bring them into it.

>> starting point.

Got you.

>>> and the last game, jinga.

You can use boxes.

You take turns and you're going to get mad.

It's just a great skill to teach them.

We can play the game.

>> we're not.

>> well, thank you all so much for coming in today.

We'll talk about the value of the teams. if you feel bad and you lose your feelings thank you-all

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