As with children who learn to read print, children who are blind must have broad and repeated exposure to language, concepts, and books before they receive formal instruction in reading. Young children will benefit from being read aloud to, and should have a chance to handle braille books well before they are formally taught to read. In addition to adequate language…
Adult enrollment in higher education grew by more than 50 percent between 1991 and 2011, according to U.S. News & World Report . This trend shows that today’s educators and corporate trainers must adapt to the different needs, learning styles and challenges presented by teaching adult students. Keep It Relevant Adult students truly latch onto lessons they…
Teaching Science is not about preparing students for a world that is static and fixed, but it concerns getting students ready to cope with changes and challenges in their lives. Traditional direct instruction in Science generally focuses on mastery of content with less emphasis on the development of scientific skills and attitudes; students are the receivers while…
TYC contributors Louis Mark Romei, Holly Seplocha, and Laura Colker answered the question: What s your advice for a new preschool teacher? as part of a Q&A on Back to School Strategies. Together they shared 10 tips. Your first teaching job is both exciting and scary. You will have some great days and some will be more challenging. Just like children we learn…
In this section, teachers will find practical suggestions for making geography and social studies accessible students who are blind or visually impaired. Included are tips for the classroom, ideas for activities, and techniques to adapt lessons and materials. Below is a list of topics you ll find in this section. Click on a title to jump to a specific topic. Family…
Traditional science lessons have often begun with teachers presenting students with science vocabulary words and asking them to write the words, find the definitions in a dictionary or the glossary of the textbook, match the words to definitions, or use the words in a sentence. In this model of instruction, words are often presented in isolation and students are tested…
Strategies to promote literacy for children with blindness or visual impairment: Determine what medium is best for an individual child through the Learning Media Assessment. This may be braille, print, dual media, auditory strategies, objects, symbols, or some combination. Provide books and literacy tools in a format that is accessible to the child. Read aloud using…
Because vocabulary knowledge is critical to reading comprehension, it is important that those working with young readers help foster their development of a large “word bank” and effective vocabulary learning strategies. There are several effective explicit (intentional, planned instruction) and implicit (spontaneous instruction as a child comes to new words in a text)…
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Schema-based instruction, which teaches students to focus on the underlying structure of math word problems, improves learning for students of all levels. I became interested in looking for better ways to teach math problems because of my daughter, who suffered brain damage in early childhood which inhibited her development of language skills. Despite this delay in…
Why is knowledge of letter-sound correspondences important? Knowledge of letter-sound correspondences is essential in reading and writing In order to read a word: the learner must recognize the letters in the word and associate each letter with its sound In order to write or type a word: the learner must break the word into its component sounds and know the letters…
