Teaching Strategies for Students with Special Needs
All students with special needs are unique. Their needs may be recognized by teacher and parent observations and/or assessment by a certified professional. Some students may have their needs formally identified as an exceptionality through an Identification Placement and Review Committee (IPRC). Regardless of the manner by which needs are determined, teachers and school teams can implement strategies as soon as a student’s need is realized.
Cognitive map
Overview[edit] Cognitive maps serve the construction and accumulation of spatial knowledge, allowing the "mind's eye" to visualize images in order to reduce cognitive load, enhance recall and learning of information. This type of spatial thinking can also be used as a metaphor for non-spatial tasks, where people performing non-spatial tasks involving memory and imaging use spatial knowledge to aid in processing the task.[6] The neural correlates of a cognitive map have been speculated to be the place cell system in the hippocampus[7] and the recently discovered grid cells in the entorhinal cortex.[8] Neurological basis[edit] Cognitive mapping is believed to largely be a function of the hippocampus.
Teaching the Gifted - Professionally Speaking -March 2012
BY GABRIELLE BAUER and ILLUSTRATION BY RÉMY SIMARD IT'S 9 AM IN THE GRADE 8 CLASSROOM of Rima Srinivasan, OCT. Peter* opens his math book and starts on an exercise. Bradley reaches for the newspaper. Scott has his head on his desk. Kiera asks if she can do some sketching for her manufacturing project.
WebToolboxes - Graphic Organizers
Strategy Tutor cst.cast.org/cst/auth-login Help students research and read strategically.Education Place 38 Examples of Graphic Organizers from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/ Visual Graphic Organizer, Concept Mapping, Mind Mapping Software, Flow Charts Timeline makers
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Best Buddies 'can change your life;' Program promotes inclusion
The goal is to create as many friendships as possible for students with and without intellectual disabilities “The goal is to create as many friendships as possible for students with and without intellectual disabilities,” said Steven Pinnock, executive director of Best Buddies Canada. Best Buddies runs chapters in high schools, colleges and universities. In 2006, only 85 chapters existed, but six years later, there are 270 across Canada and approximately 6,000 student volunteers.
EnhancED Coggle in the Classroom: Clean, Easy Concept Mapping
We've used many concept mapping tools like VUE and Mindmeister in the past, but we recently discovered Coggle and were able to recommend it to TC Professor Patricia Martinez-Alvarez for a systemic network exercise in her course Language and Science. Why Coggle? Coggle.it is a concept mapping tool with a clean, easy-to-use interface.
Peer Modeling
Peer modeling provides children with the opportunity to learn social skills from typically developing peers through games and activities. Lessons are designed so that children learn while they play and observe the proper behavior of others. Through structured play sessions led by trained professionals, children are able to practice and acquire social skills pertaining to pragmatic language, friendship, self-esteem, and overall socio-emotional development. After assessing your child's skills and determining which skill sets are to be targeted in the program, we will carefully develop lessons tailored to your child's specific language ability and learning style. Our goal is to create an effective program that will allow your child and his or her peer to have fun while they learn. After all, having fun is a child's number one priority!
21 Awesome Kids Books About Feelings and Emotions
I am a huge fan of using books as a resource to open discussion with kids about all manner of situations and problems. This collection of books about feelings and emotions was sparked by the popularity of our Managing Big Emotions emotional awareness series, with the picture books featured here handpicked for their capacity to spark discussions with children about a range of emotions. Helping children learn to identify emotions, the situations that spark these feelings and effective coping skills provides them with a strong emotional foundation, which in turn can lead to increased self confidence and sense of self esteem. 21 Picture Books about Feelings & Emotions Picture books are great for exploring with tiny tots but these stories are also wonderful for initiating discussion with children in preschool, kindergarten and even children in the primary/elementary years. Explore the Managing BIG Emotions series…
How working memory games can improve kids' executive function in 5 minutes a day
Are there kids in your class that struggle with multi-step directions and need frequent reminders about what to do? Or students who lose their place in texts, struggle to copy information and take notes, and forget what they were just taught? If so, there’s a strong possibility that the issue might be something that you haven’t yet considered–working memory. What is working memory? Working memory is the information you can consciously hold in your mind in any given moment. It is one aspect of executive function, a collection of the brain’s cognitive processes.
When Rote Learning Makes Sense
As a youth, I remember feeling cheated out of rich content in my education when I listened to my mother in times of sorrow or tenderness, lovingly recite entire poems and passages from books she studied in high school. We all know that practice makes perfect, but for some reason perfection is not one of the goals of learning in most schools. In today's classrooms, students practice plenty, but are not required to retain knowledge perfectly. The M Word Somewhere along the way, rote learning got a bad rap.
7 Ways to Increase a Student's Attention Span
Children often struggle to pay attention, but when they are given a task they view as challenging or hard, they are even more likely to give up before truly trying. If you notice a child that is regularly losing focus during challenging tasks, here are some strategies that might help increase that attention span and improve the overall outcome of tasks. 1.
How to Teach Self-Regulation
Many students enter our classrooms with psychological and learning issues, ADHD, or even adverse childhood experiences and trauma that affect their executive functioning and ability to self-regulate. They do not have the tools they need to focus and pay attention, keep their emotions in check, adjust to change, or handle the frustration that is sometimes a part of interacting with others or learning something new. This can make it very challenging to complete required tasks in the classroom.
How Albert Bandura's Social Learning Theory Works
Learning is a remarkably complex process that is influenced by a wide variety of factors. As most parents are probably very much aware, observation can play a critical role in determining how and what children learn.1 As the saying goes, kids are very much like sponges, soaking up the experiences they have each and every day. Because learning is so complex, there are many different psychological theories to explain how and why people learn. A psychologist named Albert Bandura proposed a social learning theory which suggests that observation and modeling play a primary role in this process.2 Bandura's theory moves beyond behavioral theories, which suggest that all behaviors are learned through conditioning, and cognitive theories, which take into account psychological influences such as attention and memory.
