RISE (Reaching Independence Through Support and Education
Makenzie Weberski, RISE Teacher, Catherine Fanthorpe, RISE Teacher, Monica Gloor, Speech & Language Pathologist, Erica Gutesha, former Program Coordinator
Tony White, Principal
Classroom/Setting: Elementary age students with low incidence disabilities who are impacted in a variety of areas including academics, communication, gross/fine motor, and executive functioning. Examples: Blindness, deafness , physical limitations, non-verbal, developmental delay, complex health issues, etc.
The RISE program expands students' strengths, and skill sets, to build independence, communication, executive functioning, and academic skills.
An interactive whiteboard integrates methods of learning, and allows children with disabilities to be actively engaged within an accessible learning environment, i.e., a student visually impaired, benefits from enlarged icons plus contrast differences.
An interactive whiteboard meets the accessibility needs of our students, and expands their access to developmentally appropriate instruction to increase student engagement and growth.
A student with difficulty isolating their fine motor movements necessary to manipulate a mouse, or a standard keyboard, can access educational material on an interactive whiteboard with their open-hand, fist, or elbow, to demonstrate what they know, and engage in the curriculum.
A student averse to writing with a traditional pencil can interact with the interactive whiteboard’s drawing feature to write letters and words. This demonstrates their ability to write, not observable without the interactive whiteboard. The standard rule of thumb for learning is, a word needs to be modeled 50-150 times before students will start using it independently.
The interactive whiteboard allows teachers to model a student's communication device, as the software links the device to the interactive whiteboard. This turns the whiteboard into an oversized interactive communication device.
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