need to facilitate learners to interact with and internalize (Wilson & Peterson, 2006).
The teacher varied her teaching strategies so as to provide each student with content based on their learning needs. She managed to engage and disengage learners while retaining their attention to the subject matter in the course of the learning session. The teacher utilizes the existing knowledge and skills that a learner already possesses to develop new areas of content understanding. The teacher identifies and differentiates instructional material for the purpose of meeting the individual learning needs of each member of the classroom. The teacher also consistently and persistently reinforces important points of learning… Continue Reading...
conducted observation of the classroom for 6 hours. The interview provided significant insights regarding the nature of the classroom environment and teaching strategies utilized in this co-taught general education classroom. The observation was made during an English class that incorporated different learning activities to help meet the diverse learning needs of the students. These students have different types of disabilities including visual impairment, intellectual disability, speech impairment, and emotional disturbance. Students exhibited behaviors that reflect the symptoms of each of these disabilities. This English class was a co-taught general education class since the students with special needs were not pulled out from the rest of the classroom to undertake the class… Continue Reading...
teachers. Similar to other school districts, teachers in this school district are required to identify and utilize suitable teaching strategies that help in enhancing the learning outcomes of all students. As an English language teacher to English Second Language (ESL) students, a critical aspect towards enhancing the proficiency of these students in this language is developing a curriculum plan. The curriculum plan provides a suitable framework and learning activities that helps in enhancing these students’ mastery of the English language. This paper provides a curriculum plan for teaching English to ESL students in grades 3, 4 and 5 at Paterson Public School.
Link Between Curriculum Plan and the… Continue Reading...
His name is Bo. [1: Larry Ferlazzo, English Language Learners: Teaching Strategies That Work (Santa Barbara, Calif: Linworth, 2010)]
Bo recently immigrated to the United States with his family two years ago. While Bo has learned conversational English and some grammar, he still has problems writing in English. The way to write simplified Chinese is different than English and so he had to get used to writing. So far, Bo continues to make progress. His ability to learn vocabulary has helped him improve in speaking in English. However, his writing progress has been slower.
I assessed this information through language,… Continue Reading...
as reflected in the development of multicultural curriculum, textbooks, and teaching strategies. As this concept continues to grow, there are various approaches to multicultural education in the modern educational setting. This paper compares and contrasts two approaches to multicultural education i.e. the contribution approach and the transformation approach. The analysis also includes a discussion on the compatibility of the approaches with a Christian worldview.
Approaches to Multicultural Education
Even though multicultural education has become a major philosophical approach in today’s educational setting, there is a lack of a universal definition of this approach. According to Gay (1994), the concept of… Continue Reading...
teaching strategies (see Figure 3 below) (Shack, 2014). Some of the more attractive features of the Goalbook Toolkit include its ease-of-use and intuitive interface that even novice students can readily navigate (Shack, 2014). The “wizard” that is used in this application also allows new users to browse the content and revisit information they need to review (Shack, 2014).
Figure 3. Vocabulary preview featured in the Goalbook Toolkit application
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The Goalbook Toolkit also has several useful features that can benefit special educational needs students, including those set forth in… Continue Reading...
to instructions, an approach that gives room for interaction between the students and teachers, gives room for various teaching strategies and gives time for the students to acquire knowledge. The material should also integrate Psychological Principles Relative to Cognition, Motivation, Development, and Social Psychology. The material also need to have varied curriculum emphases, this is in recognition of the fact that not all students have the same strengths or demands. The curriculum materials also need to include the appropriate educational technologies for instance the inclusion of computers and the appropriate software. The materials also need to give a large range of opportunities to develop knowledge for both the… Continue Reading...
