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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Ways Faculty Can Help Students with Traumatic Brain Injury/Acquired Brain Impairment There is a range of inclusive teaching strategies that can assist all students to learn but there are some specific strategies that are useful in teaching a group which includes students with Traumatic Brain Injury/Acquired Brain Impairment. In considering alternative forms of…
Unlike some other academic skills, the ability to write well is something that follows you from elementary school all throughout your life, particularly if you work in an office environment – so it’s no wonder there’s such an emphasis on it in school! From creative short stories and descriptive paragraphs in elementary school to lengthier prose and argumentative…
Find links to classroom and professional development resources for K–3 teachers, as well as tips and resources to help librarians and parents support the goals of the Common Core. For those who are new to the Common Core, we offer an overview of the standards and how they will shift English Language Arts teaching and learning. Overview of the Common Core The…
The purpose of this booklet produced by the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency (QCDA, formerly QCA) in collaboration with the National Strategies is to offer guidance to teachers on teaching effective mental strategies for calculation and to make clear the expectations concerning the use of calculators. It was designed to assist teachers in their…
The year I started teaching seventh- to twelfth-grade English in Minneapolis, Prince launched his song about urban ruin, Sign o the Times. That song was an apt musical backdrop for the lives of my students, most of whom lived in poverty and challenged me daily. That year also afforded me the opportunity to be assaulted with a stone, two chairs, a Rambo knife…
This discussion focuses on impact of effective teaching strategies on the students’ academic performance and learning outcome along with the researcher’s own experiences. A teacher plays a vital role within a few hours in the classroom by delivering the daily specific planned content which is a part of curriculum for a specific grade. It depends on the teacher…
