Teacher Resources

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

The prevention of FASD is everyone's job
Teachers can help students develop skills for healthy decision-making through the learner outcomes in the K-9 Health and Life Skills, and Senior High School Career and Life Management programs.

  Teaching for the Prevention of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Grades 1-12 (2002)   french_gray
This resource supports the K-9 Health and Life Skills, and Senior High School Career and Life Management programs. It provides learning activities and background information for learner outcomes related to alcohol use and FASD.

  Teaching Students with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (2004)   french_gray
Teachers can build strengths and create hope for students with FASD. Support these students and their families by:
  • Developing an understanding of FASD
  • Organizing for instruction
  • Creating a positive classroom climate
  • Responding to individual needs

  Sample professional development activities to support Teaching Students with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
  • Facilitator Notes (in Word and PDF)
  • Masters for Overhead Transparencies and Participant's Handbouts (in Word and PDF)
These sample professional development activities are designed to engage teachers in exploring the resource Teaching Students with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and linking new knowledge with current teaching practices. These activities are provided for school districts to use to support district- and school-level inservicing of teachers. 

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Building on Success: Helping Students Make Transitions from Year to Year (2006)
This resource provides ideas and templates for creating a Learner Profile that students, teachers and parents can use as part of the transition planning process.

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Supporting Positive Behaviour in Alberta Schools (2008)   
This three-part resource provides information, strategies, stories from schools and sample tools for systematically teaching, supporting and reinforcing positive behaviour.

 

 

 

  The Learning Team: A Handbook for Parents of Children with Special Needs (2003)   french_gray
This handbook offers information and strategies for parents of children with special education needs who want to be meaningfully involved in their children's education.

Did you know ???

  • FASD is the leading cause of preventable birth defects and developmental delay
  • FASD is a lifelong disability that causes health, learning and behavioural problems
  • There is no safe level of drinking or safe time to drink alcohol during pregnancy

For more information about Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, visit the Alberta Children and Youth Services website.