A weekly plan to incorporate communication into a regularly planned classroom activity. Designed to consider our 5 Classroom Communication Goals, this tool helps you plan your communication targets for each of 4 days, select vocabulary to target and consider the format of the symbols (words, pictures, symbols or objects).
Download our News-2-You Lesson Plan and sample "Reading the News Topic Board" below, for an example of how you might use this tool in your classroom!
This form is for teachers to complete a detailed schedule of their AAC user(s) day. Information includes the activity, partners and the messages teachers feel their student(s) need(s). There is an additional worksheet for teachers to give us information regarding student and teacher names, favorite foods, places, activities etc. We will use this form to start customizing student AAC systems to match your classroom. We will make cheat sheets for you so that you can help your student interact during normal activities in your classroom.
The Passport is a single page document some teachers use to plan activities to meet our 6 Classroom Communication Goals. This tool gives you a simple plan for activities to get you started. Think about your lesson, consider the communication opportunities when a student might ask for something (wants & needs), tell you what they think (sharing opinions & information), greet a friend (greetings and social exchanges), expand their language (language development) or discuss academic words and concepts (academics). Be sure you have the visual supports and symbols available to allow your students to communicate these functions during the activity!
Our all new recipes tool gives you a very simple planning document that helps you plan communication opportunities in a single activity. You'll consider which specific words you will focus on during the activity including core vocabulary words (verbs and describing words-think "sight words" for communication) and specific fringe words (nouns). You also have a space to plan on the communication purpose for these words. How will you target requesting? You could use words like "want" (core) or "marker" (fringe). Can you put these into short 2-word phrases? Are there opportunities to use your word(s) to comment? You might say "like it" or "not like!"
The Routine Communication Target Poster/Planner is designed to help busy classroom teachers and their team define important words and messages to model and teach students during routine daily activities. Print and laminate poster sized, use dry erase markers for easy updates and hang on the wall to remind yourselves of the words and messages you will target all day!
The routine communication target poster planner is a tool you can use to plan the specific words and messages you will target for instruction during your typical classroom daily schedule. You'll first list the daily activities, then select the word or message you would like to target for the next few weeks and then describe what AAC supports will be used for communicating that word or message. We recommend printing a poster sized version and laminating so that the team can plan using a dry erase marker which can be easily updated! For optimal success, include all of the adults (maybe even the students) in choosing the important words and messages to target.
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