Grade/Class: Self Advocacy A   (Grades 10 - 12)      

Department: Special Education

Aligned to Minnesota State Standards:

Aligned to National Standards:

Eligibility for Small Group vs. Special Education Study Skills Class

Unit of Instruction and

Duration

Curriculum

Materials

*Essential Outcomes/Learning Goals (Typically are the benchmarks)

What do we want students to know or be able to do?

Content and General Academic Vocabulary

Technology Alignment

SAMR Model

(Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, Redefinition)

http://education.state.mn.us/MDE/dse/sped/cat/aut/

Executive Functioning Skills:

     Overview of 10 skills and keys

     Pretest

     Writing SMART Goals (2 days)

Executive Functioning Lessons and Activities

To review how the 10 executive functioning skills    are intertwined with each other.

To be exposed to general vocabulary.

Executive functioning vocabulary associated with all 10 areas.

Augmentation

http://education.state.mn.us/MDE/dse/sped/mon/prog/list/

Identify Study Needs

     Getting Organized

     Study Strategies (5 days)

Study Skills Toolkit

To demonstrate understanding of various study strategies to be successful in all classes.

Identifying study needs, calendar / planners, flashcards, class partner, study guides, creating a study space.

1. Student has ASD disability.

2. Social skills are goals / objectives on IEP.

3. Received small group social skills instruction the past 2 years.

Skill 1. Self Control (5 days)

Executive Functioning Advanced Workbook

To demonstrate understanding of how self control affect other skills, knowing what to do when you lose control, I statements, strategies for anger and emotions.

Identifying self control ideas.

I statements.

Skill 2. Task Initiation (5 days)

To demonstrate how task initiation affects other skills, overcoming procrastination, shunking tasks, making a plan, strategies for getting stuck.

Identifying task initiation cues and reminders.

Procrastination

Skill 3. Planning (5 days)

To demonstrate how planning affect other skills, keeping a planner of some sort, homework planning, habits and routines to help with planning.

Writing SMART goals.

Skill 4. Organization (5 days)

To demonstrate how organization affect other skills, organizing materials, organizing for homework / projects, at home organization.

Daily checklists.

Skill 5. Time Management (5 days)

To demonstrate how to balance homework and leisure activities, prioritizing, minimize distractions.

What are your leisure activities?

What are your distractions that keep you from homework?

Sill 6. Working Memory (5 days)

To demonstrate how working memory affects other skills, strategies for compensating a weak memory, paraphrasing,

Paraphrasing

Skill 7.  Metacognition (5 days)

To demonstrate how metacognition affects other skills, always improving your memory, knowing how you learn, understanding your learning target, evaluate your learning.

Metacognition

Skill 8. Sustained Attention (5 days)

To demonstrate how sustained attention affect other skills, identify and avoid distractions, how to “pay attention,” behaviors aligned with paying attention, listening for keywords.

Attention

Distractions

Listening

Skill 9. Flexibility (5 days)

To demonstrate how flexibility affects other skills, dealing with change, handling frustration, problem solving skills, considering other’s perspective.

Flexibility

Frustration

Problem solving skills

Perspective

Skill 10. Perseverance  (5 days)

To demonstrate how perseverance affects other skills, how hard work pays off, reflecting, encouraging yourself, staying goal orientated, knowing when and how to get help, quotes.

Perseverance

Reflecting

Review / Post test

Review Task Cards

Executive Functioning Task Cards

Review various situations and problem solve  solutions.

Brainstorming