Functional Work Task Activities
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Grades: K-12

Teacher Name: CISD Occupational Therapists: Pamela Kaistha (MKB), Cristina Candelario (CHS, VRE, West), Sadie Oakley (DCE, TCE, North, Lee), Kathleen Janusz (CCE, Austin, LKS, Wilson), Stacy Phillips (CRE, CHS9)

Description and purpose of grant: 

With this grant, the district Occupational Therapists in collaboration with Special Education teachers, will create more work task boxes for our learners with developmental differences. By having multiple boxes of the same tasks, boxes can be distributed to the different special education classrooms within the district. Students with developmental differences learn skills using a structured and visual approach. Task boxes offer a structured, hands-on way for our learners to practice and build a variety of skills. They promote independence, target individual goals, and increase engagement.  They provide clear, predictable formats that can be completed with decreased supervision. The hands-on, self-contained, and individualized nature of these activities helps students with diverse learning needs thrive in the classroom. Once set up, task boxes can provide a consistent and ready-to-go activity, reducing the amount of daily planning time for teachers and support staff. The task boxes can include preacademic, academic, fine motor and prevocational skills. The attached Youtube video provides an explanation of Task Box Systems. At the time mark of 1:40 seconds into the video, the presenter defines the concept of a task box. 

These Task Boxes align with the District Core Values:

1) Values individual contribution by allowing our learners to work at their own pace and levels as their success can look different than a neurotypical learner. 

2) Allows everyone on our learner's educational team, as well as the learner's family, to invest in each other and the learner by collaborting to meet the needs of the learner.

3) Facilitates great teaching as the learner becomes more independent by completing these task boxes and can engage more readily in classroom activities and lessons.

4) Collectively engages the learner and staff in actiivties where the learner can gain success, learn new skills, expand skills that they have already gained, and generalize concepts to a new or even familiar task. 

Implementation process:  

The district has a variety of classrooms for learners diverse needs at elementary, middle and high school campuses. Once materials are acquired, the task boxes will be compiled, activities will be discussed with the teacher staff and the boxes will be provided to the classroom. Visual task strips can be also made to support the learner's comprehension of the activity, which in turn can faciliate their independence with task. The staff will be asked to document how each learner responds to the task box and what adaptations were made to ensure success. Once the boxes are made, the campus can keep the boxes to use with future learners. If the teacher or classroom moves or changes, then the Occupational Therapy department can house the materials at the Brock Center.

Items you plan to purchase with grant money 

Task box ideas:

All items can be purchased through Amazon Business. The items listed below include various containers to organize the materials. Below the containers is a list of Task box ideas that we would like to create.

All the Task Boxes will need containers or bags:

1) First Aid Kit

School Supply Kit

Sorting utensils

Sorting colored toothbrushes/Putting into containers

Sorting Various sugar packets and coffee stirrers

Sorting Colored Pencils and Erasers

Organizing Nuts and Bolts

Packing a lunch bag

Sorting highlighter by color

Sorting Hair items

Sorting and folding socks

Sorting Bingo Chips:

Sorting lids and containers:

Matching colored blocks to pattern cards:

In the event my grant is not fully funded, this is minimum amount I would need to get started on this project: $500 so that at least 1/2 of the boxes can be made and distributed.

 

 

 

 

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Narayanan Krishnamoorthy
Angela Campbell

CISD is lucky to have such great OTs!

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