Assessment and Educational Interventions for Students with LD Vernice Blackaby Grand Canyon University: SPE 359 Characteristics of Learning Disabilities and Strategies to Teach Individuals with LD May 19, 2013 Assessment and Educational Interventions for Students with LD According to the Learning Disabilities Association of America a learning disability is a “neurological condition that interferes with a person’s ability to store, process, or produce information” (Learning Disabilities Association of America, n.d.). A learning disability (LD) can affect a student’s ability to write, read, spell, figure out math, social skills, attention, and memory. Students with LDs will have a difficult time in school and will find it hard to succeed therefore it is important to find ways to detect the type of disability and then find ways to help the student. Unlike physical handicaps or disabilities like mental retardation and autism, to name a few, LDs cannot be seen and might go undetected. But with the right type of help, students with LDs can succeed and do well in school and life.
Running head: Benchmark Assessment EDU 536-Week 8 Classroom Engagement and Management This essay will give instruction of how a classroom should be managed. Classroom management may be influenced by a large variety of things. The classroom is where a teacher should be able to teach kids in a structured setting with few distractions. However, this is not always the case. There are many negative situations which often happen in a structured setting, such as the classroom, that causes teachers to have to do more than just teach.
Learning Styles: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences Ellen Chesser COLL100 American Public University Professor Monica Ludwig Learning Styles: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences In many learning institutions, some students succeed tremendously while others struggle and often times fail. Why is this? Very rarely is it because the student is incapable of comprehending the material but rather how the student is taught. Many educators are familiar with the theory of multiple intelligences, which is the theory that each student possesses a different learning style that closely relates to the way they are able to learn and understand information and how successful they will be in the academic field. The theory of multiple intelligences and what this process entails should be recognized and implemented in every school to improve the grades and success rates of all students.
A basic rule for brain based research is that maximum learning is achieved when current concepts are linked to prior knowledge (Hardiman, 2001). Students prior experiences, interests, and thought processes highly influence learning of current content area concepts in several ways. Students' attitudes and perceptions greatly influence how they learn. They tend to make strong distinctions based on the emotional sense of words (Doyle, 2011). For example, a student may not want to learn math due to a negative experience from a previous course.
Teachers have all different types of students in their classroom, and they want all of them to succeed. They must remember that not all students learn in the same way. With that being said, I believe teachers need to be creative in their lesson plans so they are not always using the same strategies while teaching. One student may be a bookworm and only learn through reading. Another student may not learn material well without having a hands on activity.
Because of these problems, a child’s comprehension will diminish on a consistent basis because they will be concentrating solely on pronouncing the words rather than understanding what the words mean and how they connect to a story or passage. Instruction is crucial when it comes to the elements of reading fluency: accurate word identification, rate, and prosody; also, exceptional teachers will become quickly aware of each child’s needs in his/her classroom and will plan accordingly to provide proper instruction for these students. To begin, the most important reason why reading fluency must be constantly taught and assessed is because of its strong correlation to reading comprehension; according to this article, “poor automaticity in word reading or slow, laborious movement through the text taxes the reader’s capacity to construct an ongoing interpretation of the text”(703). They also state that without accurate word identification and poor prosody, a child may change the author’s intended meaning by substituting or misreading a word, or perhaps changing or omitting the author’s intended punctuation for
Running head: Influences in the Teaching Environment Influences in the Teaching Environment Joe Smith Grand Canyon University: EDU 536 August 28, 2012 Influences in the Teaching Environment There are many negative classroom conditions and disruptive behaviors that can influence the teaching environment. These include, but are not limited to, large class sizes, unmotivated and disrespectful students. It is important for teachers to be prepared for these conditions and behaviors, and have effective strategies to deal with them. These strategies need to include preemptive tactics that prevent disruptions from happening. However, some disruptions are unpreventable and inevitable and strategies need to been in place to deal with these when they occur.
Strength in Learning Strategies and Information Processing Development Kimberly Coggins Grand Canyon University: SPE-557 June 26, 2013 The struggle with the inability to process and retain knowledge starts a journey of Learning Disabilities (LD) for students as early as kindergarten. This journey make a student take two-steps back before taking one step forward. Students with LD present deficits in one area of learning causing then to fall two-grade level behind their regular peers in school. Their ability to communicate and extend knowledge for growth is impacted by these deficiencies. It is critical for parents and teachers to identify these deficiencies early since the ability to process and retain information can be strengthen with learning strategies and information-processing development.
What difficulties do children have in studying history and what approaches appear to work most effectively in overcoming problems? The study of history poses difficulties for children of all ages for different reasons. These difficulties range from getting to grips with evidence, understanding that different interpretations of the same event exist or accepting a different perspective that may go against what they have previously believed. It is the role of the teacher to recognise and understand these difficulties that pupils may face collectively or individually and provide pupils with challenging but achievable ways to overcome them. A major challenge for pupils to come to terms with in the history classroom is that for every question a teacher asks there may be a number of different ways to answer it and for many children this concept is alien to them.
It is a strong responsibility for the teacher to assess the learner at improving this skill while learning, as it is natural that mistakes lead us to develop our language ability gradually; That is why, We as teachers should be very careful when correcting, as it could be very dispiriting to get a piece of written work back covered with marks everywhere which can create a visual impact that discourages anyone. In the following pages you will find a piece of work of two students of different levels and the way I made the necessary corrections and recommendations to learners. II. Basic Learner a) Task Profile During the last couple of weeks, we have been practicing the correct identification / capitalization of nouns –Common and Proper- along with prepositions with the objective of using them to describe things correctly while writing. The task I asked the learners was to write a simple composition describing themselves by writing simple things like their age, their likes and dislikes as well as their personal interests; This sample was chosen from that activity done during the class.