This webinar explores how to:

• Effectively support the first two stages of language acquisition of ELL students (Preproduction and Early Production).  
• Create targeted activities based on ELL students’ academic levels.
• Use Clicker to improve ELL students' ELA foundational skills and communication. 

In this webinar, Rebecca demonstrates our three Clicker Apps for iPad and Chromebook: Clicker Writer, Clicker Books, and Clicker Talk.

During the session, Rebecca:

• Navigates participants through the core features of each app
• Explores the ready-made resources created by our team of teachers
• Explains how to quickly scaffold and differentiate Clicker Sets to meet individual learner needs

In this webinar, Rebecca travels through an entire school day to see how Clicker can support learning in a 1st grade classroom.

During the session, Rebecca: 

• Demonstrates how Clicker can be used to support learning across a range of subjects 
• Shares how you can differentiate resources with Clicker for whole class, small group, and independent learning 
• Explores a variety of scaffolded resources readily available to you in LearningGrids for use across the curriculum 

In this webinar, our Customer Experience Consultant, Rebecca, and our Curriculum Specialist, Tania, explore how Clicker supports social emotional learning (SEL).

During the session, Rebecca and Tania:

• Highlight the importance of social emotional learning in the classroom
• Provide examples of SEL resources from LearningGrids – Clicker’s bank of already made resources
• Demonstrate how Clicker resources can be used for whole class, small group, or independent learning

Toni and Assistive Technology Specialist Rose Racicot discuss some of the key questions that school educators and district leaders need to consider as they prepare for the new academic year, including:

• What lessons have been learned during the pandemic that should influence our long-term teaching and learning practices?
• How can school districts maximize their COVID-19 relief funding to ensure students with diverse learning needs do not get left behind?
• What equity issues can be addressed by selecting accessible resources that can be easily differentiated for diverse learners?

Predictable chart writing is a shared writing experience that many educators are implementing with their learners. Speech-Language Pathologist Beth Poss takes you through how to make this popular writing strategy even more accessible for your students using Clicker, including:

• Front-loading information on a range of topics with Clicker Books
• Using mind maps for group prewriting activities
• Enabling students to independently reconstruct their sentences
• Producing a class book that everyone will be proud of!

Speech-Language Pathologist Lidia Giosa highlights why oral language skills are such a crucial part of every child’s development and shares her ideas for developing these in the classroom. Lidia explores:

• How oral language skills are fundamentally linked to reading and writing skills
• Specific strategies that educators can use to support students’ oral language development
• Engaging oral language learning opportunities for children of all abilities provided by Clicker

AT Specialist Gayl Bowser discusses the role of school and district leaders in supporting technology rollouts that encourage adoption and deliver tangible results. At the end of this session you will be able to:

• Describe at least three lessons for effective leadership of virtual and hybrid educational systems learned during the pandemic.
• Begin planning to establish and share your program's AT vision and expectations.
• Identify ideas for effective planning and use of data to support future program improvement activities.