Krystle Johnson obtained dual credentials in special education and general education teaching. She is currently interning as a case manager and differentiation specialist. Next year, she will be a full-time case manager. She discusses how she is making subject matter comprehensible, assessing student learning, engaging students, planning instruction, creating effective environments, and developing professionally. She highlights strategies like differentiation, various assessments, interest-based centers, and attending trainings. Her goals are to continue interning and case managing, develop her skills, and utilize available resources.

1. Presentation of Learning
Krystle Johnson
Intern Differentiation Specialist/ Case
Manager
TK-1st grade Teacher

2. Background
• I went to National University to obtain a dual
credential in special education and teaching
general education.
• I was a first year teacher at SDCCS 2, switched in
November to being part-time SAI/Case manager
and part-time teacher under the mentorship of
Kate Dickinson
• Next year, I will be a full time Case Manager at
SDCCS 1 under the mentorship of Ethan Williams.

3. TPE’s and Me
How I am…
• Making Subject Matter Comprehensible to Students
• Assessing Student Learning
• Engaging and Supporting Students in Learning
• Planning Instruction and Designing Learning Experiences
for Students
• Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for
Student Learning
• Developing as a Professional Educator

4. Making Subject Matter Comprehensible to Students
• Differentiation
– Alternate Morning Meeting
– Co-teaching a lesson that highlights different ways
students can learn one subject/standard.
– Materials accessible to all students
– Teaching the same idea multiple ways on different days
– Maslow’s Hierarchy
– Learning styles

5. Assessing Student Learning
– Small Center work
– 1:1 work
– Observations in the classroom
– Teacher and Parent interviews
– Woodcock Johnson III
– Common Core Standard Analization
– First Step Phases

6. Engaging and Supporting Students in
Learning
• Interest based centers
• Games
• Flexibility
• Modifications
• Small Center Grouping
• Intentional Grouping/ Pairs
• Scaffolding Learning
• Leadership Skills
• Social Stories

7. Planning Instruction and Designing
Learning Experiences for Students
• Curriculum plans are collaborated on for the
week
• Alternate morning meeting addressing skills in
a small group
• Bring in interests
• Present problems
• Small group teamwork
• Self-confidence

8. Creating and Maintaining Effective
Environments for Student Learning
• Early social skills
• Relationship
• Social rules
• Center rules
• Non-verbal cues and signals
• Natural consequences
• Purposeful freedoms
• Consistency
1. GO TO A CENTER
2. READ THE
DIRECTIONS
3. ASK FOR HELP IF YOU
NEED IT!
4. START

9. Developing as a Professional
Educator
• Attending Alfie Kohn lecture on how students
learn on April 23rd
• Using Reading, Writing, and Math Developmental
Continuum Books and Phases’
• Exceed training
• Weekly mentor meetings
• Weekly Special Education meetings
• HTH Classes: Put it to Practice, Learning
Seminars, using the resources around me

11. Developing as a Professional Educator
through HTH
HTH 103A: Theory of Reading
• Maze Assessments
• DIBELS
• RICA
• Identifying student difficulty in reading
• Phases of learning reading

12. What I’ve Learned
HTH 110A: Methods
• Autism resources such as:
www.autismspeaks.org
www.autisminternetmodules.org
• Ideas for different methods of classroom
teaching
• Severe student difficulties and solutions
• Different classroom perspectives
• IEP timelines/ legal cases/ Importance of IEPs

13. What I’ve Learned
HTH 112: Assistive Technology
• CAST UDL Learning model for curriculum
planning
• Every type of assistive technology available to
students
• Help with current students
• Assistive Tech resources from multiple places
– CSUN
– PINTREST
– UCP
– GUEST SPEAKER

14. What I’ve Learned
HTH 112: Assistive Technology
• The importance of the appropriate assistive
technology.

15. Goals for the Future
• Become a 2nd year intern at HTH
• Finish my 2nd year as an intern for SDCCS
• Case manage SDCCS 1 students 5th and 6th
grade
• Continue to seek out experiences to develop
as a professional
• Use all resources available to me
• Travel all over the world