Resources on ‘General Support for Learning’ for a teacher who teaches children in Post Primary School
| Title | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Study Tips for Students at Post Primary Level | This leaflet provides advice and simple strategies for Post-Primary students in relation to study. It may be useful for teachers to incorporate into their lessons or for teachers or parents to share directly with students. | English |
| Supporting Students with Autism | An overview of web resources to support students with Autism during Covid 19. | English |
| AT Webinars Blind VI | A list of upcoming Assistive Technology webinars for students who are Blind or Visually Impaired | View/Download |
| Bitmojis in the Virtual Classroom | Perhaps you are considering making your remote teaching more visual, accessible or interactive, adding a relevant Bitmoji with a message, to your tasks, can help some students to understand the intent a little more. By embedding Bitmojis in your virtual lesson, some activities that students do every day could be introduced in a more engaging format. | View/Download |
| Creating Virtual Tours of your School | Whether to maintain familiarity and comfort with own school or to aid with transition into a new school or section of a school, a virtual tour resource can have a number of benefits. The term “virtual tour” is often applied to slideshows, video presentations, or sometimes even PDF files, but modern students and parents can expect more. | View/Download |
| Marking an End of School/ Awards Ceremony /Graduation Event | Ideas for celebrating school leavers. Some schools are creating a collage of videos, editing them and presenting the award ceremony/graduation ‘live’ using YouTube Premieres function. | View/Download |
| NEPS Transition from Primary to Post Primary | Supporting Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)/Social Communication Difficulties Transition from Primary to Post Primary School. An information and support pack for parents and teachers | View/Download |
| NEPS Transition to Post Primary | Transition to Post-Primary School. Sample Transition Programmes | View/Download |
| PLC Primary and Post Primary: Making the Links | The Primary Language Curriculum seeks to support children on their language-learning journeys, in both English and Irish. Children continue to engage in language learning and development as they progress to post-primary school through their experience in junior cycle. | English Irish |
| Supporting Students with Dyspraxia | “The Next Adventure" Transitioning from Primary to Secondary School is an invaluable guide for students, parents and educators | View/Download |
| Supporting students with Down syndrome transition from Primary to Post Primary School | Down Syndrome Ireland | View/Download |
| Tips for Teacher Supporting Pupil Engagement and Motivation during Remote Learning | SMART Strategies to support pupil engagement during COVID 19 | View/Download |
| Transition Activities: Tips for parents/guardians | All children, and particularly those with special educational needs need a sense of predictability during periods of transition. Being prepared with transition strategies is key. These strategies may take place before, during, or after the transition. | View/Download |
| Transition from Primary to Post-Primary for Children with Special Educational Needs: Parent/Guardian Booklet | This resource is packed with activities to help your child with the transition from primary to post-primary. This document is in word format to allow editing. | View/Download |
| Transition to Post-Primary Transfer Profile | NEPS document to support transition | View/Download |
| School Transitions | Practical strategies to help with a variety of transitions including: Back to school/new class/new teacher/new school. Links to various resources included. | View/Download |
| Time Capsule | Transition from primary to post-primary school time capsule. | View/Download |
| NASA Space Launch: Potential for Disciplinary Literacy | Following on from the Space Launch you might like to use this resource to support home learning | View/Download |
| Communication and Keeping in Touch | An introduction to this weeks Theme of The Week Communication and Keeping in Touch. | English Irish |
| Study Tips for Students at Post Primary Level – Vision Impaired Student | This leaflet is the adapted study skills resource for a student with low vision at post primary. It is in Ariel 24 – white on black | English |
| Study Tips for Students at Post Primary Level – Braille using Student | This leaflet is the adapted study skills resource for a braille using student at PP – text only. | English |
| Communication and Keeping in Touch - lots of ideas | Lots of activities and ideas including some competitions to promote the theme of Communication and Keeping in Touch. | View/Download |
| Creating a Summary using Microsoft Word | These steps can be used as a shortcut to create a summary of a document, by selecting all the lines of text in the document that you have deemed important and collating them in a new document in four easy steps. | View/Download |
| Communicating with Friends and Family Using Apps | Resources for different ways of communicating with friends and family. | English Irish |
| Communication and Links to L1LP and L2LP | Communication and Junior Cycle: This document for teachers was preprared in collaboration with JCT. | English Irish |
| Communication and Keeping in Touch: Suggestions for Students with Complex Needs | Some ideas for keeping in touch with others for students with Complex Needs. Practical activities to support communication development. | English Irish |
| Keeping in Touch: Museums | At this time it is important to keep in touch with our interests or even explore a new interest. This resource can virtually introduce you to some of Ireland's most well know museums. | English Irish |
| Keeping in Touch: Postcard | Keep in touch with family members and friends by creating your own picture postcard. | English Irish |
| Keeping in Touch: With Zoos and Wildlife Parks | At this time it is important to keep in touch with our interests or even explore a new interest. This resource can virtually introduce you to some of Ireland's most well know Zoo and Wildlife Park. | English Irish |
| Keeping in Touch: Writing an informal Letter | Keep in touch with family members and friends by writing an informal letter. | English Irish |
| Useful Chrome Extensions for Teachers/Parents | Google Chrome Browser allows you to install additional third party developed software called extensions. Some of the extensions that can be added to the browser include some with fantastic accessibility features. This resource list gives information of 7 extensions including Helperbird and Grammarly. | View/Download |
| Kahoot and Science | An introduction to using Kahoot to support home learning | English Irish |
| Bernoulli Effect | Read about it, Try it safely and Explore it further! | English Irish |
| Icebergs and Climate Change | Read about it, Try it safely and Explore it further | English Irish |
| Magician's Tablecloth Trick | Read about it, Try it safely and Explore it further | English Irish |
| Melting Ice Cubes | Read about it, Try it safely and Explore it further | English Irish |
| Outdoor Fun Science | Read about it, Try it safely and Explore it further | English Irish |
| Plastic Spinning Cups | Read about it, Try it safely and Explore it further | English Irish |
| Rolling Down the Hill | Read about it, Try it safely and Explore it further | English Irish |
| Science Ideas | Links to online activities relating to science to support home learning. | English Irish |
| Secrets of a Guitar | Read about it, Try it safely and Explore it further. | English Irish |
| The Last Straw | Read about it, Try it safely and Explore it further. | English Irish |
| Vaccination Nation | Science Comprehension. | English Irish |
| Visual Recipe Interactive Demonstrations | Interactive Tool for parents and teachers of students with GLD / ASD | View |
| Baking for the Coeliac Diet | A recipe with step by step visuals to support baking for the coeliac diet. | English Irish |
| Activities for Vocabulary Development based around Baking | Lot's of ideas to develop language at home around the theme of baking. | English Irish |
| Coronavirus A Book for Children | This online book by Elizabeth Jenner, Kate Wilson & Nia Roberts is illustrated by Axel Scheffler and may support parents with questions their children have around Coronavirus | View/Download |
| Baking Wordsearch | Wordsearch to aid visual tracking and targets word identification skills | View/Download |
| Collaboration Platforms that Support Live Video Communication: Tips | Tips for Teachers on on Video Conferencing Lessons to support Remote Teaching | View/Download |
| Gardening for Students who are Blind/Visually Impaired | A resource prepared by our Visiting Teachers to support students who are blind / visually impaired in relation to gardening. | English Irish |
| Gardening for Students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing | A resource prepared by our Visiting Teachers to support students who are deaf / hard of hearing in relation to gardening. | English Irish |
| Using the “Our Story” app to Support Home Learning with Gardening | A guide to using Our Story App for making a story relating to gardening | English Irish |
| Weeds and Plants comprehension, dictionary work, cloze procedure & answer sheets | This resource contains actvities and answers in relation to gardening | English |
| Tips on Green Screen use for Remote Teaching | This is a simple how to guide for using a green screen. Teachers an read step by step instructions and see a video from a teacher using this approach to reach out to his students during this time. | English Irish |
| Chatt Comprehension Strategy | CHATT, a during and after reading strategy, encourages students to actively engage with text as they read. Teachers may find this a useful resource to support all learners in their online classrooms | View/Download |
| Overview of online supports for Post Primary Teachers | This document gives an overview of some of the key supports that are available to Post primary Teachers in order to ensure they can support all their students to the best of their ability during this time of uncertainty and to support teachers to access materials in relation to online learning. | View/Download |
| Apps for supporting students with Autism | This document outlines some useful apps that you might recommend to parents to help them to support their students with Autism. | View/Download |
| Supporting Learning at home for children with Down Syndrome | This document outlines a number of activities that could be suggested by teachers to support parents in meeting the needs of their children with Down Syndrome. There are a number of activities that may also support other learners with Special and additional needs. | English Irish |
| Supporting Categorisation for Students with Autism | This document is designed to support the teachers of students with Autism in relation to categorisation. | English Irish |
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