Mary Brownrigg

EDL 637
 Pleasant School is a center based program. All
students in the school are cognitively impaired.
Ages range from 3-26 years old.
There are 3 types of classrooms in the school,
which include Moderately Cognitively Impaired,
Severely Cognitively Impaired, and Severely
Multiply Impaired.
A Title One School
Very diverse school, 40% white, 25% black, 20%
Middle Eastern 15% Hispanic
30 classrooms, over 300 students, 100 staff
members which include teachers and
paraprofessionals.
 Mrs. Nice has been teaching for 10 years.
She has only taught in SCI (Severely Cognitive
Impairements)
Teachers students who are 17-20 years old.
First was hired in the room she was teaching
in, then moved to younger SCI room with
ages 5-7.
On several committees and has had several
student teachers.
 For the pre-conference, Mrs. Nice filled out
her IDP and we discussed her goal for the
year.
When she told me what her goals were, I
asked her to elaborate and tell me why she
picked those specific goals.
At our school, when teachers have been
hired for 5 or more years, they no longer
have to fill out an IDP. They do however, still
have to create their goals for that school
year.
 In
the lesson plan the teacher
created, Mrs. Nice referenced which
Michigan EGLCEs align to her lesson
that she has planned for that
particular moment.
 Based off of our teacher evaluation rubric, I
observed how Mrs. Nice used instructional
methods.
Below in the next slides, it shows how I
evaluated Mrs. Nice on her instructional
methods.
 I gave Mrs. Nice the evaluation rubric with what I
circled and the comment section had what I
thought was strong during her lesson and what
she could improve on. I also had a conference
with her after the lesson to explain everything.
I wanted to explain to her what I saw, what was
strong in her lesson plan, and what she could
improve on.
Overall, she mostly scored high effective on the
rubric. She only scored effective on a few of
them. She did not score anything below
effective.
 Mrs.Nice did a great job responding
to the needs to all of her students.
The needs of each of her students
are different because of the
population of students she teaches.
She based her lesson and changed it
as she went to adapt it to each
individual student. She did a great
job at doing that.
I gave Mrs. Nice a few examples of different
activities she could do to adapt even more of
her lesson to her students based on their
ability.
Also told Mrs. Nice that she could separate
her students by ability level and create
different activities for those specific
students.
It would help decrease the amount of time of
her lesson and be able to do other academic
activities.
 Mrs. Nice uses several current research/data-
informed practice to reach all different
abilities.
She uses PECs in her classroom. She also
uses the new Core Vocab Communication
System. Both of these systems help students
communicate using pictures. These systems
are research based to help differentiate
instruction for each student.
 Mrs.Nice uses several different items for
technology. She uses her computer which is
connected to her project. The computer is
where Mrs. Nice plays music to help give
breaks to her students during the lessons.
Mrs. Nice also uses her IPAD to communicate
with her students.