Philosophy of Differentiation

What percentage of the school population struggles with mental health?

Most kids don't come with a diagnosis, they come with ________.

The "Invisible Backpack"

Three Types of Trauma

Chronic-complex trauma

Chronic trauma

Acute trauma

Students with mental health problems can display a variety of behavioral issues. These include (7 total):

When anxiety goes UP, working memory _________

Working memory

Students with anxiety

Four crucial executive functioning and emotional skills (from "Helping Anxious Students Move Forward"

Accurate thinking

Initiation

Persistence

Help-Seeking

Ways to promote ACCURATE THINKING (and combat all-or-nothing situations/catastrophic thinking)

Ways to promote INITIATION

Ways to promote PERSISTENCE

Ways to promote HELP-SEEKING (students who struggle with asking for help)

Ways to prevent HELP-SEEKING (students who ask for help too frequently or need assistance with every step of every assignment)

Increasing independence in the classroom

Input/Output inventory

The learning environment actively supports learners and learning

The teacher actively attends to student differences

Ways to actively attend to student diferences

The curriculum must be organized to support learning

Assessment and instruction are inseparable

Content

Process

Products

Teachers must attend to expected norms and individual norms

The teacher and students work together flexibly