Self-Advocacy

Subject: Special Education

Lesson Length: 30 - 45 mins

Topic: Self-Awareness

Grade Level: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Standards / Framework:

Brief Description: This lesson is intended to allow students to practice asking for help while creating a future scenario.

Know Before You Start: This lesson is designed to assist students who may have difficulty asking for help.

Hook:

Ask students, “What do you do in the classroom if you need help?”
Make a list of student responses. Explicitly review the expectations that the general education teacher has set in place.
Explain that it is important to ask for help when we need it.

Activity:

Have students create a comic that illustrates a time in the classroom when they need help.
Students will include themselves raising their hand and asking the teacher for help.
Once comics are completed, have students act it out with you, or in small groups.

Closure:

Advise students that raising their hand is a good way to ask for help.
Follow up with students later in the day to see if they accomplished their goal.
Print out or display comics for students to have as a reference.

Differentiation:

Create the comic with students individually as needed.
Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.
Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.
Work with students to come up with a scenario that is unique to their needs and situation.

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