Meaningful Participation Workshop

Summary:

This page gives information about the Meaningful Participation: Planning Instruction for Students with Significant Disabilities workshop and provides downloadable handouts and sets of transparencies for trainers.

Description of the workshop
This is a one-day awareness level workshop that provides tools and strategies for instructional planning for students with significant cognitive disabilities. Participants learn to apply best practices and become familiar with resources available to educators who work with students with disabilities. While the workshop emphasizes planning instruction in general education environments, the methods described may be applied across all types of educational settings.

Target audience
This workshop is designed for teachers in regular and exceptional student education (ESE). It is also beneficial for guidance counselors, speech pathologists, and other educators who deal with students who have special learning needs.

To schedule training, contact

• Your local FDLRS Associate Center at http://www.fdlrs.com/
• Your regional Florida Inclusion Network (FIN) office at http://www.floridainclusionnetwork.com/
• Jan McKay, FSU Learning Systems Institute, (phone: 850-921-0695, email: jmckay@lsi.fsu.edu)

Meaningful Participation trainer resources

To open the PDFs you will need the Adobe Reader software available free from the Adobe website. To read the PDFs with a screen reader, please go to the Access Adobe website at http://access.adobe.com/ for resources. Follow this link to Adobe's online conversion tool for PDFs: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_onlinetools.html.

Color transparencies in PDF format (53 slides, 536 KB)

Color transparencies in PowerPoint format

• For Mac OS 9 (53 slides, 1.1 MB)
• For Mac OS 10 (53 slides, 1.3 MB)
• For Windows 2000 (53 slides, 1.1 MB)
• For Windows XP (53 slides, 1.1 MB)

Additional PDF resources
File 1, Your Thoughts Questions, Activity 3 (27 KB)
File 2, Pennies handout (T-8), Activity 8 (188 KB)
File 3, Nameplates for Roles, Activity 13 (24 KB)

Modifications | Alternate Curriculum | Partial Requirements | Lower Grade Level | Impact