Homework Ideas for Students with Learning Disabilities
By guest author Anna Super. As a child growing up with a diagnosed but unspecified learning disability, I was often told that I was intelligent but that I learned differently. I believed that wholeheartedly until I was in high school. In high school, I began to...Helping or Hovering?
One important issue that we often see when teaching students with special needs is the difference between helping students to complete tasks themselves and hovering over them. The Council for Exceptional Children published a study that addresses and clarifies this...
Homework, A Letter To Teachers
Dear Teachers, My former child and teenage self wanted to share something with you about homework. Something that may help you assign homework that will educate kids like me. You see, I have a learning disability. I was diagnosed with one in kindergarten, but I wasn’t...
Teaching Summarizing Skills
Summarizing is a life-long skill that greatly affects student learning. It is also a skill that students struggle with significantly. One of the worst consequences of a lack of summarizing skill is the ease with which students will mistakenly plagiarize. Early in my...