[Lindsay Abramson]

Having one year of EASE training and experience under your belt will definitely help you conduct basic and even more advanced EASE activities with you class. However, it will always depend on the population of your class and the different academic/behavior/social levels they are on. Once you have the basics down, you can always incorporate EASE into any part of your day.  For instance, after my students come back from recess, they do painting with water.  I play meditation music and I consider it a calming down time for them. They get to choose the color of paper and paintbrush they want.  I also have students pass out the materials. Besides that, I incorporated more curriculum components in my lessons.  For instance, after my students participated in the basic floor map lesson, I went on to teach them how to make a floor map used to guide them in answering multiple choice science review questions.  (I obviously didn’t do both lessons on the same day).  I had a one path that guided them down to 3 X’s.  The student who walked down the path had an index card in their hand containing a questions and had to read the question out loud.  If they weren’t at reading level yet, I would have either a staff member or another student assist them.  Then, 3 different students would be placed on an X holding an index card (2 wrong answers, 1 right answer).  The student who read the question had to walk to the X with the correct answer.  To make it easier, you can only have 2 choices/X’s to choose from. You can also ask them questions pertaining to their IEP goals or any other subjects/topics you have been covering in class.  Hope this helped!

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