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Special Day Classes (SDC). We must take them from GOOD to GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Who can read this?.
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Special Day Classes (SDC) We must take them from GOOD to GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Our Students are Unique! • Special Education students may have various learning differences. Although they are seen as disabilities, they are really differences in the way they operate as opposed to the average student. • Visual Processing Differences (Slide 2) • Auditory Processing Differences- (Hearing final and initial parts of conversations) • Attention Differences- The ADHD child • Sensory Motor Differences- Writing difficulties.
How Should You Help If You Get This Student? • LRE- Least Restrictive Environment • IDEA- Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (2004) • SLD- Specific Learning Disability • Auditory Learners- discussion, books on tape, recorded text, recorded lecture and discussions… • Kinesthetic Learners- Movement in the lesson, rewards (incentives), projects, hands-on activities, manipulatives, building or sculpting activities, music… • Visual Learners- Visuals, posters, realia, videos, flashcards… • Tactile Learner- Note taking, writing, feeling an example…
Positive Reinforcement is the Key! • Positive Reinforcement Strategies are the best! Here are some ideas. • The marble jar • Raffle tickets • Group points and prizes • Good notes • Positive phone call home • Student of the Week • School Incentives (Peary Dollars, Top Sailor Awards, etc.) • Stickers
Yes, they can!!! Good Better Best Never let it rest until your good is better and your better is best!