Rock Your Classroom – Focus on Engagement and Responsiveness – with UDL strategies, targeted supports, and intensive intervention strategies (Entire section) Note: Suggestions for Connections to COS are highlighted in red text.
Specialized Instruction Supports and Adaptations
Breadth of the Three Child Outcomes
Contents: Click on area of focus below:
Links below are those included in the “Rock Your Classroom” sections above.
Engagement by adults and children:
- Visuals for Supporting Instruction
- Environments that Invite Learning
- Encouraging Participation in Shared Reading
- TATS Talks – Supporting Communication and Literacy
- Embedding Individualized Instruction
- Supporting Communication for Various Ages and Developmental Levels
- Using Adapted Books to Encourage Participation and Teach Core Words
Conversations are Encouraged:
- Talk, Read, and Sing Together Every Day
- Reading with Children is an Opportunity for Conversation
- Talking with Young Children
- Encouraging Oral Language and Conversations
- Supporting Children with Various Response Modes
- Supporting Communication for Various Ages and Developmental Levels
Adults demonstrate respect, cooperation, and collaboration
- 11 Things Rocking Co-teachers Do
- Establishing Classroom Teamwork
- Collaboration in Co-taught classrooms
- Checklists for Teacher and Associates – FDLRS document
- Best Practices for Collaborating with Preschool Service Providers
- TATS Talks about Classroom Collaboration
Adults interact with and facilitate interactions between children
- Activities that Encourage Cooperative Play
- Book Nook – Example of Using Books to Support Social Emotional Skills
- Facilitating Peer Interaction
- Supporting Children During Play
- Grouping Children for Social Growth
- Process for Teaching Social Skills
- TATS Talks – Developing and Teaching Social Skills Lessons
- Visual cue Scripts for Playing with Friends
Teachers communicate and collaborate with families:
- COS Connections: Collaborating with Families
- TATS Talks with Families (Spanish versions included)
- Family Engagement Guide from Head Start
- Tips for Schools to Enhance Family Engagement
- Encouraging Family Engagement – CEC checklist
- Sharing Class Rules with Families
- Engaging Families in Ongoing Child Assessment