Core program created a fun, engaging and slightly competitive way to encourage staff to further expand the use of core words in the classroom. The activities and trainings were brief, fun, low stress and encouraged participation by all staff. There was an in- crease in modeling of core words in all of our classrooms as well as throughout the school building”.
is going to be room for improvement and ways to make things more effective and efficient moving forward. Knowing this, there are things that we would change. We would make sure Core Vo- cabulary trainings were provided to our teachers and staff (spe- cifically new hires) at the beginning of the school year especially because of our high turnover rate. We would make the “Caught Modeling Core” initiative more collaborative and cooperative rather than competitive. We would have a Core Vocabulary word of the week designated, which would help in taking some of the stress off the teachers when trying to decide which core word to target, and we would make sure Core Vocabulary words are expanding beyond the basic few words, such as “stop, go, eat, drink, yes, no, more”. One thing that has been implemented, that was not done during our “Caught Modeling Core” initiative is providing one- to-one trainings to the teachers and staff regarding modeling. In these trainings, the SLP is using Senner and Baud (2012) S’mor- res Model in order to demonstrate modeling effectively. Senner and Baud break modeling into different components: (S) slow rate, (Mo) model in which you point and participate in self and parallel talk, (R) respect and reflect, (R) repeat, (E) expand, and (S) stop, pausing and allowing the child to respond. We have re- ceived great feedback since using this training method for the teachers and staff and we believe this will help our teachers and staff have a better understanding of how to use Core Vocabulary and modeling with our students. Overall, we are extremely pleased with how “Caught Mod- eling Core” turned out; however, I think our administrator summed it up the best when she said, “The Caught Modeling
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