Practical Access Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Drs. Rebecca Hines and Lisa Dieker, UCF Faculty members, share their thoughts on how to motivate students on and offline. They share their thoughts on ways to get students engaged aligned with choice and voice.  They discuss the importance of having fun while ensuring connections with learners in online and offline environments. 

Send us Fan Mail Drs. Rebecca Hines and Lisa Dieker, UCF Faculty members, share their thoughts on ways to think about and possibly cope with anxiety in students and children. They share practical ideas from self-talk to learning about the brain. They discuss how the anxiety of adults impacts that of their children and student - but understand we are living in a time of anxiety of all.  Be sure to...

Send us Fan Mail Drs. Rebecca Hines and Lisa Dieker, UCF Faculty members, share their thoughts on rigor in learning in this online world. They share their thoughts on how to ensure and assess rigorous learning outcomes.  They discuss the importance of discourse with children/students around the content while looking for rich, rigorous, and engaging content. 

Send us Fan Mail Drs. Rebecca Hines and Lisa Dieker, UCF Faculty members, share their thoughts on the issue of safety for all students, but especially students with disabilities safety in an online environment. They share their thoughts about how to think about safety and some practical ideas they have heard related to the topic.  

Send us Fan Mail Drs. Rebecca Hines and Lisa Dieker, UCF Faculty members, share their thoughts on how to meet and track IEP goals in this online world. They share simple ideas to create IEP summaries and to use communication tools to meet IEP goals. They recognize the challenge this brings and the opportunity at the same time to ensure students receive a Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE...

Send us Fan Mail Drs. Rebecca Hines and Lisa Dieker, UCF Faculty members, share their philosophical ideas about the topic of Education. They share what it means from their personal and professional standpoint, but they also share practical examples of what it looks like to have high expectations for all students, while still empowering families and students to have access to the continuum of servi...

Send us Fan Mail Drs. Rebecca Hines and Lisa Dieker, UCF Faculty members, share practical ideas for the role of support personnel (SLP, OT, PT) as well as administrators and instructional assistants to support students with disabilities and their families and their teachers. They discuss how that role should be clear with synergy and organized in a way logical to parents, teachers and students wit...

Send us Fan Mail Drs. Rebecca Hines and Lisa Dieker, UCF Faculty members, share practical ideas for supporting students with disabilities and their families and teachers related to behavior and technical support. They discuss ideas being used for families, teachers, and instructional aides in this shift to an online learning environment. 

Send us Fan Mail UCF Professors Drs. Rebecca Hines and Lisa Dieker share practical ideas to help teachers think about how to use this new online world to still allow students to learn offline.  This episode is anchored in practical ideas to get kids thinking away from the computer aligned with project-based learning and UDL.  Remember to share your questions for us to answer on our Podcast to twit...

Send us Fan Mail This episode Drs. Becky Hines and Lisa Dieker, UCF Professors answer a question posed by a listener.  "What innovative ideas have you both heard are being used to connect kids with disabilities and their families in this change to an online world?"  As is the title of our podcast, we don't share answers but practical ideas and structures we have heard from the field...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode UCF Professors Drs. Rebecca Hines and Lisa Dieker share practical ideas to consider for students who have significant disabilities in an online world.  They provide specific ideas to consider for students with significant needs and how to use the resources of multiple adults of found in the traditional classroom to support these students.  

Send us Fan Mail In this episode UCF Professors Drs. Rebecca Hines and Lisa Dieker share practical ideas to consider for students with low or no tech options as we move into this new online world.  They provide specific ideas to support students with disabilities.  

Send us Fan Mail This session UCF Professors Drs. Lisa Dieker and Rebecca Hines provide practical ways to consider keeping students with a range of disabilities and really all students connected.  The episode includes quick and easy ways to connect students to each other in this new online world. 

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our first Practical Access Podcast by two UCF Professors, Rebecca Hines and Lisa Dieker.  We provide in this podcast tips for teachers related to immediately moving their instruction online and how to consider tools to support students with disabilities.  We share our favorite ideas for supporting students with disabilities.  

Send us Fan Mail This podcast comes from a request to talk about how to co-teach in an online environment. This sessions is filled with quick ideas to consider in your shift to online co-teaching.   Remember the purpose of our podcast is to provide practical solutions to "real" problems in the field.  Please share your problems of practice for us to consider in future podcast by sharing...