One tip that helps my students learn is to do my classroom tasks in conjunction with a learning activity. This activates students' knowledge with a warm-up based on readings or previous work.
Teaching math to students with mild to moderate learning disabilities can be done in two ways, conceptual interventions and arithmetic interventions. Conceptual interventions focus on students being able to explore and cement the important underlying math concepts. Arithmetic interventions focus on strategies that help kids be able to complete the algorithms successfully.
Problem-Based Assessments use manipulatives that help explore student's understanding of the concepts and to teach new ones. Ask your students lots of questions to help understand students' thinking.
Teaching math to students with mild to moderate learning disabilities can be done in two ways, conceptual interventions and arithmetic interventions. Conceptual interventions focus on students being able to explore and cement the important underlying math concepts. Arithmetic interventions focus on strategies that help kids be able to complete the algorithms successfully.
Problem-Based Assessments use manipulatives that help explore student's understanding of the concepts and to teach new ones. Ask your students lots of questions to help understand students' thinking.
When teaching students to write, it is critical to reduce the number of elements a student has to focus on in order to allow him/her to work on the content and organization.
Whatever element of writing you want to work on, make sure you focus on one element at a time. One week you might want to work on building and sequencing ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, or conventions. It is up to you, but students need to have one skill taught one at a time.
Focus on getting ideas on paper before worrying about editing, spelling, etc. Allow students to dictate into a computer or tape recorder. Give students choices of topics and focus on affinities.
To reduce the demands of writing, allow pair writing and peer dictation. Provide a choice of writing tools. Use keyboards instead of handwriting. Use graphic organizers that help with spacing and format. Teach students to write short, simple sentences, and then enrich by making sentences more complex.
Working with textbooks may be difficult, our students tend to have way too much information for them to process. By going through the textbook thoroughly you might be able to pinpoint pertinent information that will help your students grasp the content. So you choose the BIG IDEAS! Choose at least three big ideas from each chapter and see what that information means to us and relate it to what it is happening today.
Whatever element of writing you want to work on, make sure you focus on one element at a time. One week you might want to work on building and sequencing ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, or conventions. It is up to you, but students need to have one skill taught one at a time.
Focus on getting ideas on paper before worrying about editing, spelling, etc. Allow students to dictate into a computer or tape recorder. Give students choices of topics and focus on affinities.
To reduce the demands of writing, allow pair writing and peer dictation. Provide a choice of writing tools. Use keyboards instead of handwriting. Use graphic organizers that help with spacing and format. Teach students to write short, simple sentences, and then enrich by making sentences more complex.
Working with textbooks may be difficult, our students tend to have way too much information for them to process. By going through the textbook thoroughly you might be able to pinpoint pertinent information that will help your students grasp the content. So you choose the BIG IDEAS! Choose at least three big ideas from each chapter and see what that information means to us and relate it to what it is happening today.