4812EDN Effective transition for students with special needs Assessment 1 29th April
This essay will explain, analysis, and give examples on five strategies that teachers can uses, to enhance the learning and assessment out comes for students with special needs. These strategies include: Lesson planning and contextualising, Task analysis, Scaffolding, Explicit teaching and direct instruction, and Differentiated Instruction to enhance content.
Lesson Planning and Contextualising
Lesson planning and contextualising content is an overall course plan, that will define the mindset and lay out the framework for how lessons and units will be developed (Lenz & Adams, 2006). Lessons need to be thought out, planned, and developed in relation to …show more content…
In addition to the strategy that ACARA offers Lenz & Adams (2006) provide comprehensive analysis of the planning of units in regards to using graphic organisers to encourage inclusive learning. Students will be able to engage more with lessons they can understand and relate to content they have previously been taught. With each lesson plan, introduce the content of the lesson to the class so the students receive an outline: Firstly how the students are able to relate to the lesson taking into consideration real-life applications, next how the students are able to relate this content, to other content topics they have previously learnt. Then the teacher needs to outline what is to be learnt, and identify the learning goals for all students as well as to ensure that students identify their own learning goals. After that the teacher needs to set out a structured and sequenced learning task that will engage students, finally the teacher should summarise the content covered and plan for post-lesson …show more content…
Teachers and fellow student may need to ask tough questions in order to help a student scaffold and make correct choices in determining the steps that must be taken. Even when scaffolding, Students my make mistakes and be further away from achieving the task then desired. With a combination of constructive feedback and taking pressure off, the student is able to increase their performance self-sufficiently (Hattie & Timperley (2007)). Scaffolding is a great approach if teacher wish to decrease the fear of failing in a student, and for students who need a certain level of accomplishment as they
This essay will explain, analysis, and give examples on five strategies that teachers can uses, to enhance the learning and assessment out comes for students with special needs. These strategies include: Lesson planning and contextualising, Task analysis, Scaffolding, Explicit teaching and direct instruction, and Differentiated Instruction to enhance content.
Lesson Planning and Contextualising
Lesson planning and contextualising content is an overall course plan, that will define the mindset and lay out the framework for how lessons and units will be developed (Lenz & Adams, 2006). Lessons need to be thought out, planned, and developed in relation to …show more content…
In addition to the strategy that ACARA offers Lenz & Adams (2006) provide comprehensive analysis of the planning of units in regards to using graphic organisers to encourage inclusive learning. Students will be able to engage more with lessons they can understand and relate to content they have previously been taught. With each lesson plan, introduce the content of the lesson to the class so the students receive an outline: Firstly how the students are able to relate to the lesson taking into consideration real-life applications, next how the students are able to relate this content, to other content topics they have previously learnt. Then the teacher needs to outline what is to be learnt, and identify the learning goals for all students as well as to ensure that students identify their own learning goals. After that the teacher needs to set out a structured and sequenced learning task that will engage students, finally the teacher should summarise the content covered and plan for post-lesson …show more content…
Teachers and fellow student may need to ask tough questions in order to help a student scaffold and make correct choices in determining the steps that must be taken. Even when scaffolding, Students my make mistakes and be further away from achieving the task then desired. With a combination of constructive feedback and taking pressure off, the student is able to increase their performance self-sufficiently (Hattie & Timperley (2007)). Scaffolding is a great approach if teacher wish to decrease the fear of failing in a student, and for students who need a certain level of accomplishment as they