COLOR CODING Color coding can also be a helpful way for students to keep information organized into similar topics and subjects so they can keep the information sorted efficiently. This can help them when they go to retrieve the information so they don’t need to go through all the information every time they need to use it. Two articles that give some specific color coding strategies are 7 Color-Coding Tips to Get Your Child Organized and Color Coding: The Differentiation Strategy You Never Knew You Needed. GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS Graphic organizers are a great method to sort information in a context specific manner that helps to track and visualize the information at a glance. Electronic graphic organizers have the added advantage of allowing the information to be links that take the students directly to more information that may be needed. It is helpful to teach students to use different types of graphic organizers depending on the information they need to synthesize. Creately blog has a resource list teachers and students can explore called The Ultimate List of Graphic Organizers for Teachers and Students. Tools for Life Georgia AT Program created a video, Using Graphic Organizers to Support Students with Disabilities, which demonstrates different graphic organizers with examples of how they can be used.
See Table 2 for the previously mentioned tools/strategies as well as a few more. For a more accessible version of Table 2, refer to this EF Information Management Resource Document.
Category
Stragtegy/Tool
Description
Ñote Taking
Website with Tools/Strat- egies and information on Executive Functioning Video (6:40 mins) by College Info Geek. Audience for video is college students but information is relevant for any student.
SETC Executive Func- tioning web page: Note Taking How to Take Notes in Class: The Five Best Methods
5 Simple Strategies for Note Taking 7 Most Efficient Note Taking Methods Example: Cornell Notes Template available at gdoc.io How to Study Your Notes (Effectively Highlight and Color Code) How assistive technol- ogy can help kids with note-taking School Tips and Orga- nization: Color-Coding School Supplies and Subjects Color Coding: The differentiation Strategy You Never Knew You Needed
Resource Sheet from Understood.org
Article by LifeHack.org
Consistent notetaking method with sections for lecture notes, key words & questions, and a summary Video (5:17) geared toward older students by @Mister Messinger
Article by Understood. org
Color Coding
Video (1:24 mins) by Understood.org
Article discussing how teachers can color code content to help students understand and retain information better. Ideas for organization with color coding by Understood.org Article discussing color coding calendars. This is an option with any electronic calendar such as MS Outlook or Google Calendar. Video (2:53 mins) by Tools for Life Georgia AT Program
7 Color-Coding Tips to Get Your Child Organized
Using Graphic Organizers to Support Students with Disabilities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zxM9kBH2EE
The Pros and Cons of Color-Coding Your Calendars
BREAKING DOWN PROCESSES (TASK ANALYSIS ) When considering how to use information efficiently in creating assignments and projects, task analysis is necessary. The assignment or project must be broken down into manageable pieces. Understood.org has an article called 6 Steps for Breaking Down Assignments to help students learn to do this. The Watson Institute has a video showing how to break up homework assignments which can be watched here: Visual Chunking: Homework.
Graphic Organizers
Using Graphic Organizers to Support Students with Disabilities The Ultimate List of Graphic Organizers for Teachers and Students
Resource sheet by Creatively blog
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