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…
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Preschool Program (3-5 Years of Age) Mini University’s preschool teachers use the Creative Curriculum for Preschool, a written research-based curriculum created by Teaching Strategies. This curriculum has been aligned to the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) Ohio’s Early Learning and Development Standards. Ohio Department of Education Core Themes All children are…
Students with visual impairments use different strategies when writing, depending on the amount of vision they have, as well as their particular needs and interests. It is important to work closely with a teacher of the blind and visually impaired to determine which strategies are most appropriate for a specific student. The document (2008) from SET-BC (Special Education…
Evidence Based Teaching Strategy 2: Show & Tell You should normally start your lessons with show and tell. Put simply, telling involves sharing information or knowledge with your students while showing involves modelling how to do something. Once you are clear about what you want your students to know and be able to do by the end of the lesson, you need to tell…
