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Shop NowFocus! We have created 16 categories based on the Expanded Core Curriculum for students who are deaf and hard of hearing and the areas of learning most likely to be impacted by hearing loss. While many of our students’ learning issues overlap with students who have language or learning disorders, hearing loss is not a disorder. It is a sensory perception issue that reduces access and therefore impacts learning. The materials within Teacher Tools Takeout keep this difference in mind!
Teaching support! There are too few teachers of the deaf/hard of hearing, educational audiologists, and specializing speech language pathologists to meet all of the intervention needs of students with hearing loss. Increasingly, families and educators that do not have special training in the learning needs of students with hearing loss are taking on the responsibility to enhance their education and/or address their identified learning needs. Teacher Tools Takeout not only wants to provide good materials, we want to improve teaching practices so our students have better school and life successes.
Beyond just ‘Sales’ The Supporting Success for Children with Hearing Loss (SSCHL) website (http://successforkidswithhearingloss.com) has over 300 pages of information related to the specific needs of children, students, and youth who are hard of hearing or deaf. Within these pages we have had downloadable handouts, information, and checklists. All of this information has now been made available on Takeout so that it is easy to search for and download. Many items are FREE. SSCHL has gained a reputation as a preferred ‘go to’ information site and we want Takeout to become known as a ‘go to’ place to find instructional materials and relevant DHH teaching practice information, including offering many materials at no cost.
Teacher Tools Takeout not only wants to provide quality materials, we want to improve teaching practices so students who are hard of hearing or deaf have greater success in school and life.
Takeout focuses on the needs specific to children who are deaf or hard of hearing by offering information and instructional materials in 16 broad categories and 100+ subcategories.
Instructional Materials
Informational Resources
Hundreds of creative educators work many hours creating great materials to support the specific learning needs of our students with hearing loss.
Teacher Tools Takeout is a forum for you to share your work, whether for sale or free, so that other educators and family members of children with hearing loss can more effectively support good child development and student outcomes.
When you have created/chosen original materials (length of material is up to you)
What if I want to offer my materials for free?
Teacher Tools Takeout encourages you to submit free materials as long as they are high-quality, beneficial to students, teachers, or parents, and would not be considered ‘sales literature’. Any items, including those for free, will still need to have a submission form completed so that we have the information needed to upload the item(s) into the Takeout system.
Why are Teacher Notes pages preferred?
There are too few teachers of the deaf/hard of hearing, educational audiologists, and specializing speech language pathologists to meet all of the intervention needs of students with hearing loss. Increasingly, families and educators that do not have special training in the learning needs of students with hearing loss are taking on the responsibility to enhance their education and/or address their identified learning needs. For these reasons we encourage you to include a Teacher Notes page with your submitted materials (usually first or last page of material).
Quality teaching + quality engagement = powerful learning! Instructional videos are a wonderful resource for families, DHH educators, and educators who support our students without having a DHH specialist background.
There are too few teachers of the deaf/hard of hearing, educational audiologists, and specializing speech language pathologists to meet all of the intervention needs of students with hearing loss. Increasingly, families and educators that do not have special training in the learning needs of students with hearing loss are taking on the responsibility to enhance their education and/or address their identified learning needs.
Teacher Tools Takeout not only wants to provide good materials, we want to improve teaching practices, so our students have better school and life successes. Because of this, Teacher Tools Takeout encourages you to include Teacher Notes with your materials. We also encourage you to include as many of the following 6 items as appropriate to be included on an instructional page with each set of instructional materials.
The format of your Teacher Notes page may look different than the example. Please note that any information you can provide regarding IEP goals, relevant CC standards, Expanded Core Curriculum relatability, and teaching ideas will all help sell your materials!
All Teacher Tools Takeout accounts are free, including to sellers. All sellers must have a PayPal account so that PayPal can pass on the royalty payment. Payments will be set to be sent to authors once a month.
Royalty Percent Received is Based on Number of Items YOU have in the Takeout System
BRONZE LEVEL | 1-5 items | 50% royalty* |
SILVER LEVEL | 6-20 items | 60% royalty* |
GOLD LEVEL | 21-35 items | 70% royalty* |
PLATINUM LEVEL | 36-50 items + | 75% royalty* |
DIAMOND LEVEL | 51 items + | 80% royalty* |
PayPal is only able to pay to one account. In the case of work(s) by multiple authors, the authors decide independently which PayPal account the royalties will be deposited, and how those monies will be shared. Many authors set up a PayPal account specifically for payment of marketplace royalties.
Supporting Success will monitor the number of sales transactions occurring for authors by state. State sales tax will automatically be collected once the number of allowed transactions has been reached (i.e., 200 transactions) for those states that require sales tax to be collected for digital products.
Supporting Success for Children with Hearing Loss, the parent company of Teacher Tools Takeout, will supply 1099-K tax forms to sellers who have submitted information to Takeout which has resulted in gross sales of $20,000 or greater. Those who have met the $20,000 sales criteria will be contacted to submit a W-9 form.
Purchasers will have the opportunity to provide feedback to sellers if they experience any concerns about the materials purchased. How? Most feedback provided will be assumed to be relevant, although we know that sometimes feedback received reflects a ‘bad day’ situation.
With the wide variety and types of materials for sale on Teacher Tools Takeout it is not possible to have a set pricing formula. During the submission process authors need to identify a sale price for their material. The length, complexity, variety of activities, flexibility, adaptability, and creative use of images or other features all need to be taken into account when you set your prices.
The most valuable perspective is for authors to consider for themselves and ask colleagues what they think a fair price would be to pay for the material. Pricing that is enough to reflect the true value of the material for its designed educational purpose, but not too much so that the customer will reject the item as too costly is the desired price point.
Teacher Tools Takeout reserves the right to adjust the author’s suggested pricing so that it is more in line with similar materials already for sale. Email communication with the author will occur regarding any pricing adjustments.
.avi - | Audio Video Interleaved video file |
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.bmp - | Bitmap image for PC |
.bnk - | ExamView Question Bank |
.doc - | Microsoft Word pre-2007 |
.docx - | Microsoft Word post-2007 |
.dot - | Graphviz Graph Visualization Software |
.exec - | PC/Windows executable program |
.epub - | E-Pub free and open e-book format |
.flp - | Promethean ActivPrimary or ActivStudio interactive lesson plan |
.flv - | Flash Video for Adobe Flash Player .flipchart - Promethean Activeinspire or Activeboard interactive content |
.gif - | Graphic Interchange Format image .htm - Hypertext Markup Language for all web browsers |
.html - | Hypertext Markup Language for all web browsers |
.ink - | Mimio whiteboard |
.jpeg - | Common image usually produced by digital cameras |
.jpg - | Common image usually produced by digital cameras |
.key - | Apple Keynote presentation software |
.knt - | KeyNote tabbed notebook and personal information manager |
.mov - | MPEG 4 video file for Apple Quicktime |
.mp3 - | MPEG 3 digital audio |
.mpeg - | MPEG 1 & 2 digital audio & video |
.mpg - | MPEG 1 & 2 digital audio & video |
.mp4 - | MPEG 4 digital audio & video |
.m4a - | MPEG 4 digital audio & video |
.m4v - | MPEG 4 digital audio & video with Digital Rights Management |
.notebook - | SMART Technologies SMARTboard content |
.ods - | OpenOffice spreadsheet |
.pdf - | Portable Document Format universal document |
.png - | Portable Network Graphic image |
.pps - | Microsoft PowerPoint slide show presentation pre-2007 |
.ppsx | Microsoft PowerPoint slide show presentation post-2007 |
.ppt - | Microsoft PowerPoint pre-2007 |
.pptx - | Microsoft PowerPoint post-2007 |
.pub - | Microsoft Publisher |
.ram - | Real Audio Metadata |
.rm - | RealMedia audio & video |
.rtf - | Rich Text Format |
.swf - | Adobe ShockWave Flash |
.tif - | Tagged Image Format for publishing and graphic design |
.tiff - | Tagged Image Format for publishing and graphic design |
.txt - | Plain text |
.wav - | PC/Windows CD-quality digital audio |
.wpd - | WordPerfect Document |
.wmv - | Windows Media Video |
.xls - | Microsoft Excel spreadsheet pre-2007 |
.xlsx - | Microsoft Excel spreadsheet post-2007 |
.xlt - | Microsoft Excel template pre-2007 |
.xltx - | Microsoft Excel template post-2007 |
.zip - | Common archive usually containing multiple internal files. Specify the included file types within your .zip file. |
Google Docs™ | |
Google Forms™ | |
Google Slides™ | |
Google Drive™ folders |
ADVOCACY | |||||||||
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Specific advocacy strategies | Communication repair strategies | Disclosure of hearing loss | Understanding accommodations | Listening environments and identifying issues | Problem-solving communication challenges | Role model information from others with hearing loss | Self determination | Legal rights | Requesting accommodations |
ASL TEACHING MATERIALS | ||
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Building ASL vocabulary | Using ASL to support written language | Use of interpreters |
ASSESSMENT | |||
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Teacher information about assessment | Checklists | Observation checklists | Hierarchies / Learning Goals |
DEAF/HARD OF HEARING PLUS ADDITIONAL CHALLENGES | |||
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Communication strategies | Collaboration with teams | Life skills | Social stories |
DEAF STUDIES | ||
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History | Culture & Heritage | Deaf community |
HEARING LOSS UNDERSTANDING | ||||
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Personal knowledge & understanding of hearing loss | Anatomy, Mechanics, and Process of Hearing | Audiogram, Including interpretation | Hearing conservation | Changes in hearing |
HEARING TECHNOLOGY & MANAGEMENT | ||||||||||
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Bone anchored devices | Cochlear implants | Hearing aids | General, Non-Hearing Assistance Technology (HAT) specific | Non-specific FM or DM devices | Oticon | Phonak | Soundfield - CADS | Connecting HAT with other technology | Consistent use – refusing hearing aids or HAT | Monitoring and troubleshooting devices |
LANGUAGE SKILL DEVELOPMENT | |||||||||||||
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Attributes | Holidays/Seasonal/Famous days of the year | Teaching emotion vocabulary | Figurative language / Idioms | Multiple meaning words | Math specific language | Science specific language | Sequencing – sequence stories | Inferencing / Inferential language | Teaching syntax / Grammar - parts of speech | Written language (story starts, topical stories, etc.) | Vocabulary development | Theory of mind | Early childhood language development |
LISTENING SKILL DEVELOPMENT | ||||||
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Comprehension | Detection | Discrimination | Identification / Auditory association | Auditory closure - rhyming / segmenting | Auditory memory | Early childhood and preschool listening |
PERSONAL HEALTH | ||
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Emergency preparedness | Personal safety | Teaching sexuality |
READING/LITERACY | ||||||||
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Phonological awareness / Phonics | Using visual supports to improve reading | Story elements - plot, characters, etc. | Story retelling | Determining fact/fiction/opinion | Determining main idea | Predicting outcomes | Reading comprehension | Literacy instruction |
SELF-CONCEPT/IDENTITY | |||
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Feelings/Emotions | Feelings associated with hearing loss | Teaching resilience/perseverance | Discussion info for groups of students with hearing loss |
SELF-MANAGEMENT | |||||
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Time management | Organizational Skills | Study Skills | Behavior/Consequences | Independent living | Setting goals & self-improvement |
SOCIAL SKILL DEVELOPMENT | |||||||
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Social norms - manners | Conversation skills - active participation | Making friends | Conflict resolution | Responding to bullying | Working in a group/team (typical hearing peers) | Sarcasm / Teasing / Jokes | Nonverbal language / Social cues |
TEACHER INFORMATION | |||||||||||||||||
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These are not instructional materials. This is information to increase the knowledge base of educators and/or families. | Interpretation of evaluation-assessment information | Research support / Evidence-based practice information | Topical articles | Inservicing school staff / classrooms | Communication modality specific | Early childhood | Hearing loss identification and specific types | Language and speech | Legal issues | Listening development | Planning to meet student needs | Self-advocacy | Self-concept | Social issues | Speech perception | Transition | Reading |
TRANSITION | ||||||
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College preparation | Employment preparation | Navigating community resources | Citizenship | Living independently | Money management | General transition |