Modeling in Morning Meeting
What You’ll Learn🔗
See what modeling AAC can look like during a whole-class morning meeting. You’ll learn how communication partners can combine spoken language with a lite-tech core board and discover why modeling, even when it’s simple or slow, helps support AAC learning.
Learning Goals
- Identify how AAC modeling can be incorporated into whole-class activities such as morning meetings.
- Recognize how spoken language and AAC can be used together during modeling.
- Apply beginning AAC modeling strategies by selecting key words and building confidence over time.
Course Resources
Modeling During Morning Meeting🔗
You’ve learned what modeling is and how to use it to bolster AAC users’ language learning. Let’s take a look at an example of what this would look like in Morning Meeting with a whole class.
What to Look For🔗
In this example, I want you to pay close attention to how the demonstrator chooses words on a lite-tech core board at the same time as using spoken language. You can watch this example in the video above starting at 00:27. In the dialogue below, the capitalized words are the core words being pointed to as the teacher speaks to the class.
“GOOD morning, everyone! I am so excited to SEE you all today!”
“Alright. Come on OVER. I’m going to have you sit DOWN on the carpet.”
“First, let’s say GOOD morning to everyone. Go ahead and LOOK around and say GOOD morning to your classmates!”
“Hm, WHAT day IS it today?”
Remember: It’s Okay to Take It Slow!🔗
In this video, the person modeling is an experienced modeler, so it’s okay if your modeling looks a little different.
They selected quite a few words on a low-tech board at the same time as their spoken message. However, it’s okay if you go slow and just select one word that you know where it is.
It takes some time to build confidence in modeling.
What Matters Most🔗
What really matters is that you are modeling and that you model in the classroom setting. Every opportunity to model language helps AAC users see and hear how their communication system can be used throughout the day.
Want more modeling examples? Check out Modeling Across School Environments.
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