Solutions for Distance Learning

Here is a list of simple solutions to help you with distance learning. Contact your Attainment Account Manager or email [email protected] for more information about these remote learning solutions.

1. Lite Apps – Attainment offers dozens of free, lite apps for English language arts, math, and life skills. Easily access them on the App Store for free, interactive content for students at home.
2. Attainment Hub – This website allows educators to log in and retrieve all printable student materials from Attainment resources purchased (e.g., Student Books, Workbooks, flashcards, graphic organizers, posters, videos, reference guides, software, and more).
3. Our five research-based ELA software titles, ELSB, ELSB for Older Students, ERSB, Access Language Arts, and Access Language Arts: WRITE, plus Computers at Work, Show Me Math, and Dollars & Cents are available now through a web browser on your computer, iPad, Android tablet or Chromebook. Visit our Web-Based Software page for more details.
4. Consumable Student Workbooks – Receive discounted prices for Attainment’s 10-packs of consumable student workbooks for all content areas across the grade bands; ideal for parent packets at set pick-up locations for students everywhere.
5. GoWorksheet activities – Receive free, interactive GoWorksheet activities for the iPad to correspond with various Attainment resources.
6. Free, Virtual Lessons to Enhance Digital Learning – Attainment’s in-house special education team is continually creating free, virtual lessons to use at home to cover key learning concepts while engaging students remotely.
7. Professional Development for Teachers – With less face time with students in the classroom, teachers may have time for professional development opportunities. Check out four of our Best Practices Series for various topics and ideas: Teaching Students with ID and Autism, Teaching Students with Communication Disorders, Mastering the IEP Process, and Mastering the Transition Process.
8. Virtual Manipulatives – Enjoy lessons developed by Attainment’s team to use concrete manipulatives virtually to teach counting, map skills, scientific concepts, and more.
9. Live, Interactive Webinars – Join our experts in the field to gain knowledge about WIOA and Pre-ETS services and instructional insights for teaching remotely.
   

   Using Google Classroom in Special Education
   Wednesday, November 4, 2020 2:00PM Central Time / 3:00PM Eastern

   Learn how to fully utilize the features of Google Classroom in your virtual teaching! Join this webinar and learn to use Google Slides, Whiteboards and Spreadsheets to support students in special education.
   Presenter: Whitney Fowler, MEd

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   Meeting ID: 897 2341 1749
   Passcode: 208313
   
   

   Collecting Data in a Virtual Environment
   Wednesday, November 11, 2020 2:00PM Central Time / 3:00PM Eastern

   Are you unsure how to collect data when teaching virtually? This webinar will share ways to collect important data to support your IEP goals when teaching in a virtual classroom.
   Presenter: Whitney Fowler, MEd

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   Meeting ID: 889 0915 0816
   Passcode: 282557
   
   

   Data Collection for Job Coaches
   Wednesday, November 18, 2020 2:00PM Central Time / 3:00PM Eastern

   Learn ways to collect important data when job coaching students in community employment. Resources will be shared on data collection tools that can provide important information to support targeted job coaching when needed and how to build independence for the worker.
   Presenter: Janet Estervig, MS, RN

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   Meeting ID: 874 4167 4532
   Passcode: 000967
   
   

   Teaching Community Skills in a Virtual Environment
   Wednesday, November 25, 2020 2:00PM Central Time / 3:00PM Eastern

   What Apps can help you teach students skills they will need to live in their community? Teaching community skills virtually adds challenges. Topics will include safety skills, social skills, and getting around my community.
   Presenter: Whitney Fowler, MEd

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   Meeting ID: 896 0288 5184
   Passcode: 622714
   
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10. Activities to Promote Independence - Print out various sample lessons from our website that encourage independence at home and in life—recipes from Ready, Set, Cook!, a step-by-step hygiene routine, and a task analysis for appropriate social skills!
11. Communication Boards - Print out these sample COVID-19 related medical communication boards to use with a GoTalk 4+ or GoTalk 20+ or standalone.
    - COVID-19 Chat Board 9+
    - COVID-19 Medical Board 20+
    - Health Concerns 4+
    - Health Concerns 9+