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Welcome to the NoodleNook Podcast with Ayo Jones. We are breaking down strategies, tools, and resources to help self-contained educators teach students with significant disabilities including Autism. Learn tips and tricks to manage behavior, improve communication, and build vocational skills in less time and with less stress. Work smarter, not harder. Ayo Jones has coached hundreds of teachers, trained thousands of educators, and her blog has reached over a million readers.
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Wednesday May 01, 2019
Wednesday May 01, 2019
10 Simple Strategies for Teacher Motivation
A motivated teacher is the key to a classroom- check out these 10 easy and totally doable ways to keep teacher motivation high and improve student outcomes. 10 stellar strategies and ideas to keep teacher motivation high and improve student achievement!
Read more about how supporting a teacher in the classroom and keeping them motivated can be as easy as using one of the strategies on this list. As an instructional coach or campus administrator, how can you implement these strategies to inspire teachers and keep your campus running better?
Check out the full post on Noodle Nook by visiting http://www.noodlenook.net/teacher-motivation-strategies-and-ideas/
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The Teacher Nook is a place for educators to have their questions answered about teaching students with severe and profound low-incidence disabilities including Autism. We offer tips and tricks for classroom success in academics, behaviors, and communication for classroom teachers.
Wednesday Apr 03, 2019
Wednesday Apr 03, 2019
The Prompting Hierarchy is a concept that every teacher and support staff should know about- after all we want our students to become more independent and the ADULTS in the room shouldn't be facilitating students to the point of learned helplessness... right?!? Listen to The Teacher Nook podcast to learn more about how to use the prompting hierarchy and prompting chart in your Autism classroom to support academics, behavior, and communication (even with AAC instruction).
Using Cues and prompts that are appropriate to support students at their level of need helps you to reduce a student’s level of learned helplessness and also helps to build independence, which is so important in an Autism Unit, Life Skills classroom, or self-contained setting. Remember though, these levels of prompting will work as you work with any student you support. Share this prompting hierarchy with your support staff at your next training or professional development so all staff works towards building independence and doesn’t offer too much support.
To read more about How to Use the Prompting Hierarchy, visit Noodle Nook. You will also find a printable Prompting Hierarchy Poster you can hang in your classroom.
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The Teacher Nook is a place for educators to have their questions answered about teaching students with severe and profound low-incidence disabilities including Autism. We offer tips and tricks for classroom success in academics, behaviors, and communication for classroom teachers.
Wednesday Mar 20, 2019
Wednesday Mar 20, 2019
Have you been working in a Special Ed classroom or Autism Unit and notice your students could use some ways to improve social skills? Listen to this episode to learn about 4 activities to improve social skills in autism classrooms.
To read more about the social skills training, head over to the blog at Noodle Nook.
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The Teacher Nook is a place for educators to have their questions answered about teaching students with severe and profound low-incidence disabilities including Autism. We offer tips and tricks for classroom success in academics, behaviors, and communication for classroom teachers.
Wednesday Mar 06, 2019
Wednesday Mar 06, 2019
Dealing with behaviors in your Autism unit or Special Ed classroom? Listen to learn the definition of the function of behavior, how to do a behavior analysis, and get a free data sheet. Once you know why the behavior happens, you can decide what to do about it... like using effective replacement behaviors. Listen now to learn more.
If you prefer to read this article or want to reference the materials referred to in the podcast, visit the post at http://www.noodlenook.net/function-of-behavior/
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Wednesday Feb 20, 2019
Wednesday Feb 20, 2019
What do you do when a student in your Special Ed classroom or Autism Unit refuses to work? It all depends on the function of the behavior! Listen to better understand four possible reasons a student may refuse to work and learn three strategies to address each of those 4 reasons.
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The Teacher Nook is a place for educators to have their questions answered about teaching students with severe and profound low-incidence disabilities including Autism. We offer tips and tricks for classroom success in academics, behaviors, and communication for classroom teachers.
Wednesday Jan 23, 2019
Wednesday Jan 23, 2019
When students with Autism or other significant disabilities cannot sit still in the classroom long enough to work or learn, it can be a problem.
Students who wander need you to do 5 things in order to be successful. Listen for more on Autism and Wandering in the classroom.
Read more on NoodleNook.Net with tips, tricks and tools to support you as you teach students with low incidence disabilities and Autism.
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The Teacher Nook is a place for educators to have their questions answered about teaching students with severe and profound low-incidence disabilities including Autism. We offer tips and tricks for classroom success in academics, behaviors, and communication for classroom teachers.
Wednesday Nov 28, 2018
Wednesday Nov 28, 2018
The Nook is a podcast specifically supporting teachers in Autism Units and Special Education. Today's question is all about behavior.
Caitlin asks:
"How can I lessen the stimming in a student… they are making other students have more behaviors!"
Great question. In this podcast we will talk about the 4 reasons you may see stimming and 4 strategies you can use to better manage stimming behavior in your classroom.
Items referenced in this podcast:
Visual Schedule- LINK HERE. Read more about visual schedules and First-Then charts at NoodleNook.Net
First-Then Chart- LINK HERE
DIY Dollar Store Task Boxes- LINK HERE Read More HERE
DIY STEM Builder Bins- LINK HERE
Tips to Establishing Routine and Procedure
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The Teacher Nook is a place for educators to have their questions answered about teaching students with severe and profound low-incidence disabilities including Autism. We offer tips and tricks for classroom success in academics, behaviors, and communication for classroom teachers.
Wednesday Aug 15, 2018
Wednesday Aug 15, 2018
On the Noodle Nook Podcast today, Emily asks:
How and what functional skills should I teach to my self-contained high school class of 20 students with intellectual disabilities?
Centers for Functional Skills in High School
Wow Emily! That is a lot of students in a self-contained classroom. Just managing that can be tough and meeting the needs of so many students will be a challenge. Good news is that you CAN do it and do it with purpose!
Most states have or are changing the law to require all students who graduate from k-12 to have curriculum that is based on the state standards. Even with academic curriculum in your classroom, you may have enough time to work on other skills. So, with that in mind, it sounds like you are interested in some other ideas for functional skills you can work on beyond that. So let’s talk about that a bit...
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Wednesday May 09, 2018
Wednesday May 09, 2018
Teacher in Autism Unit Needs Help Dealing with Parents
Meredith asks for advice on how to deal with her student's parents:
“The parents of my student with severe Autism, a speech impairment, and self injurious behavior that leads to a lot of self biting insists that he’ll be going to college to become a computer programmer. I am lucky if I can get him to log in on his computer independently. His mom wants him reading at level so he can be ready and doing on-grade-level math (Freshman Algebra), but he has a hard time with anything past two digit addition and subtraction when regrouping is involved. My campus is promising all kinds of miracles I don’t think I can deliver. I’m starting to hate my job, this is just too much. What can I do?”
Listen to find out what Meredith can do to make her parents, administration, and students all happy.
Read the related blog post at www.NoodleNook.Net/episode7
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The Teacher Nook is a place for educators to have their questions answered about teaching students with severe and profound low-incidence disabilities including Autism. We offer tips and tricks for classroom success in academics, behaviors, and communication for classroom teachers.
Wednesday Apr 25, 2018
Wednesday Apr 25, 2018
Laying down the law on the playground- some tricks and tips to transition after recess. Listen to this episode of The Nook from Noodle Nook on strategies in the severe/mod class, Life Skills or Autism Unit as well as Special Ed classroom!
Brooklyn Asks about some tips to transition after recess:
“I have a student who is having a really hard time transitioning back to the classroom from recess. He will lie down on the playground and refuse to move. And now some of my aides have been using food to bribe him back to the room- now it seems like he is just expecting the bribe, though sometimes that won’t work either. Help!”
See the post associated with this podcast at www.NoodleNook.Net/episode6/