Adapting to a New Normal: Tips and Tools for Engaging and Supporting ALL Middle & High School Students with Online Learning (CATDC Online)

Are you struggling to engage adolescent learners and meet the various challenges of working with different ability students during this COVID-19 transition to online school? In this workshop, Dr. Sharon Saline, clinical psychologist and author of the award winning book, What your ADHD child wishes you knew: Working together to empower kids for success in school and life, will help keep kids engaged and accountable with online learning. We will also explore the new role for parents in their child’s education and methods for teachers to collaborate with parents.

Topics will include:

• How to support successful learning periods for students in a remote setting
• Tools for differentiated virtual instruction
• Strategies to improve student participation and accountability in the distance learning model
• Techniques for motivating students, addressing alternative learning styles and special needs concerns and maintaining your connections with pre- teens and teens from afar
• Communication protocols for engaging parents as partners in successful remote learning

This workshop will be both didactic and experiential, so you’ll have opportunities to discuss issues particular to your individual situation and find workable solutions.