Hello, Please note that as of December 20, 2007, "Focus on the Playbook: A Collaborative Team Approach for Serving Students with Visual Disabilities" was replaced with a revised version.
Serving Students with Visual Impairments: The Importance of Collaboration Third in a series that focuses on students with visual impairments, this movie highlights the importance of collaboration between the general education teacher and other individuals knowledgeable about the needs of students with visual disabilities. In it Ms. Milton, a beginning third-grade teacher, learns that two students with visual disabilities will be joining her class. Although she is initially concerned that she will not be able to effectively meet their instructional needs, she soon learns that she can consult and collaborate with a number of individuals. We invite you to join Ms. Milton as she discovers her roles as a general education teacher instructing students with visual impairments, and the supports that other individuals can provide. To review the first two modules in this series, click on the links below. Accommodations to the Physical Environment: Setting up a Classroom for Students with Visual Disabilities Instructional Accommodations: Making the Learning Environment Accessible to Students with Visual Disabilities The Center also posted the Data Management and Graphing Tool in the module "RTI (Part 4): Putting It All Together." This tool allows teachers to track progress monitoring data for each student. With it, teachers can set beginning and end goals for their classes and enter each student's progress monitoring scores. The program will automatically generate a graph for each student and calculate the slope. A link to the Data Management and Graphing Tool (http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/rti04_alltogether/rti04_02_link_elements.html) can be found in the Teacher's Materials Center. We encourage you to share these materials (http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/) with your colleagues. If you have any questions concerning the IRIS materials, please contact Kim Skow at 800-831-6134, [EMAIL PROTECTED], or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Happy Holiday, The IRIS Center The IRIS Center Vanderbilt University Peabody College, Box 160 Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN 37203 615-343-5610 615-343-5611 (fax) http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu You are receiving this message as a member of the IRIS Center's emailing list. If you wish to be removed from this list please contact us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________________________ The information transmitted is intended only for the person(s) or entity(s) to which it is addressed and may contain confidential, proprietary and or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this email in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from all computers.
