Ahoy! Welcome Aboard to ESY!
Teaching ESY always inspires me. I think it might be simplicity of it. There are specific objectives for each student and in our district's case, there are four weeks to review, practice and maintain those objectives. It also is a time to break free of the intervention mandated curriculum, use our imaginations and BE A TEACHER. Preparing Before I meet the students, I receive their IEPs with the objectives their case manager chose for them. The case managers are contacted, I asked questions about health, adaptive needs and behavior support. I make a document to compile the responses. Most of the time they email, so copy and paste works well! Over the years, I have tried different ways to consolidate the academic information and the most effective is to make a Google sheet for each subject. I make one for reading, writing and math. There is a column for the most prominent areas, for example, the reading had a column for letter names/sounds, ORF (oral reading fluency) 1-2, 3-4, co...