The purpose of Making Math Accessible to Students With Special Needs is to support everyone involved in mathematics education to become confident and competent with mathematics instruction and assessment so that 99% of students will be able to access enrolled grade-level mathematics. Six chapters address topics critical to effective mathematical instruction such as federal and state legislation, research-based instructional best practices in mathematics, and the selection, administration, and evaluation of accommodations for instruction and assessment. These topics are combined to offer teachers understandable, practical instructional procedures. The resource guides readers through the 5E instructional model, which provides an array of choices and strategies for providing high-quality instruction to all students.
Difficulties with figure-ground processing include trouble seeing an image within
a competing background or picking one line of print from another while reading
or following math sequences. Using an index card or marker will help to blot out ...
This book is a comprehensive and practical guide for reconnecting with discouraged students and reawakening their excitement and enthusiasm for learning. With proven strategies from the classroom, Dr. Mendler identifies five effective processes you can use to reawaken motivation in students who aren’t prepared, don’t care, and won’t work. These processes include emphasizing effort, creating hope, respecting power, building relationships, and expressing enthusiasm.
In the case of students who refuse to work, we have a better chance of inspiring motivation when we let go of our need to shape a student's behavior. It is helpful
to identify how the student's behavior is actually positive so that we can be ...
Learn why students disengage and how to motivate them to achieve success with a five-step framework. Research-based strategies and fun activities show how to instill a lasting love of learning in students of any age. Classroom tips and troubleshooting advice for common motivation problems prepare readers for the real-world ups and downs of motivating students.
25 Strategies to Light the Fire of Engagement Carolyn Chapman, Nicole Vagle.
To make assessment after instruction informational, Amanda Smith uses student
reflection sheets in her fourthgrade math class in Newfoundland, Canada.
7 Key Student Proficiencies of the New National Standards
Packed with examples and tools, this practical guide prepares teachers across all grade levels and content areas to teach the most critical cognitive skills from the Common Core State Standards. Discover a doable three-phase model of explicit teaching, guided practice in content-based lessons, and authentic application in standards-based performance tasks that will strengthen students’ ability to learn across the curriculum.
Another listening technique is affirming what someone is saying, signaling that
the listener is with the speaker. That occasional nod or intermittent “uhhuh” lets
the speaker know that the listener is there and hearing what the speaker saying.
Strategies Aligned With Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards
It is essential that students learn to examine, review, and evaluate knowledge and ideas through a process of scientific investigation and argumentation. Using these instructional methods and lesson scenarios, teachers of all disciplines will gain the tools needed to offer students a richer, lasting understanding of science, its concepts, and its place in their lives and the global community.
Such teachers consider the processes involved in comprehending a text, as well
as the instructional routines that ... As we've noted throughout this chapter, the ability to comprehend and critically respond to a text is initially dependent on
one's ...
This well-rounded collection of research-based reading intervention strategies will support and inform your RTI efforts. The book also includes teacher-friendly sample lesson plans and miniroutines that are easy to understand and adapt. Many of the strategies motivate average and above-average students as well as scaffold struggling readers. Maximize the power of these interventions by using them across grade-level teams or schoolwide.
54). Students like my granddaughter Abigail (whose story I told in the preface)
are a very hard sell when it comes to reading a lot. I am hopeful that this final
intervention strategy will inspire you to seek out the most reluctant readers in your
...
Prompt students to become the sophisticated readers, writers, and thinkers they need to be to achieve higher learning. The authors explore the important relationship between text, learner, and learning. With an array of methods and assignments to establish critical literacy in a discussion-based and reflective classroom, you’ll encourage students to find meaning and cultivate thinking from even the most challenging expository texts.
Comprehending, Analyzing and Discussing Text Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey.
Literature's. Ability. to. Transform. The most obvious question to ask at this point is
“Why read literature?” We are partial to Cullinan's (1989) explanation: literature ...
