Engaging Diverse Learners in Group Instruction Utilizing Interactive Whiteboards

Presenters

Kathleen McClaskey (Primary)

Founder and President
EdTech Associates

Randy Welch (Primary)

Chief Program Officer
Spaulding Youth Center

Description

The significant increase in diverse learners including students with autism spectrum disorders and behavioral disorders with learning disabilities necessitates a new and effective model for engaging these learners. In this webinar, Kathleen H. McClaskey, President of EdTech Associates, Inc., and Randy J. Welch, Chief Program Officer, Spaulding Youth Center, will discuss how interactive whiteboards have revolutionized the ways teachers engage and teach diverse learners at a special education school in New Hampshire. This technology, in conjunction with desktop and online tools, has offered new opportunities for these students to demonstrate spontaneous social learning and increased on-task classroom behaviors while significantly decreasing disruptive and maladaptive behaviors. Video vignettes will illustrate how instructional practices have changed the paradigm of a classroom for diverse learners and present both the expected and unanticipated student outcomes.

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