Changing Instruction to Increase Achievement for Students With Moderate to Severe Intellectual Disabilities
This article was informative and useful. This was a completely practical article with effective enrichments to help the students succeed. The content was about assisting two students achieve success with math fractions. The elementary teacher was struggling with how to provide her students with better instruction so they would be able to master the skills of fractions. They were so close to completing the 8 steps, but then began to regress and act out during class. A few suggestions that were offered to improve student achievement were as follows: use smart boards, i pads, using a cookie sheet with magnetic strips. These simple visual instructional aides can make a world of difference when the goal is to improve student achievement. I have always been a visual learner and love when I am able to use technology or hands on manipulatives to help student performance.
Shawnee Wakeman, Meagan Karvonen, and Audra Ahumada (2013). Changing Instruction to Increase Achievement for Students With Moderate to Severe Intellectual Disabilities. TEACHING Exceptional Children, Vol. 46, No.2 pp.6-13
Lori,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your response to the article on intellectual disabilities. I know from experience that students have difficulty with fractions (and even fear them!). It was interesting to see the different learning strategies to teach students operations involving fractions. In particular, the magnetic cookie sheet intrigues me as an instructional tool. You are absolutely right that many students learn better with visual and tactile activities.
Lori,
ReplyDeleteI also enjoyed reading your response to your article choice on intellectual disabilities. The magnetic idea is brilliant! What a great way to use something that almost all of us have at home and be put to use that could better our student's education! Visuals and also items that can be touched and moved around are important and as you mentioned, having them can indeed make a world of difference. I myself am also more of a visual learner, and fractions were not one of my strongpoints. The idea of smart boards, iPads, etc. are all things that can be touched and allows for group involvement and interaction. I have a SMART board in my classroom with software and it is truly amazing how many different activities are available on the web. I have found activities from published authors to even teachers around the world who posted them online for other teachers to use that they found successful in their classroom. Technology is definitely on the rise!
These seems like it was a very practical and informative article. How do you think you could use these ideas in your future classroom? Do you think these tools would be beneficial for other students besides those with intellectual disabilities?
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