Vocabulary Interventions for Really Terrific Instruction (RTI)
Kinesthetic Strategies Increase Vocabulary Recall Many students who may need a vocabulary intervention are Bodily-Kinesthetic learners, meaning they learn through their bodies and they need to “move” their bodies in order to learn at their highest...
A Memory Strategy; Chunking, Processing, and Paraphrasing
Many students with learning disabilities struggle with memory deficit issues. Primarily, they forget information they need to do well on tests or to do the higher-level thinking required for problem solving, analysis, and synthesis. For example, students who struggle...
Top 8 Mistakes That Doom Effective Lecture Delivery
If you are going to direct teach, sometimes still referred to as lecture, one of the best ways to do it well is to identify the mistakes made during ineffective lectures and steer clear of them. Here is a list of the top eight mistakes that can keep you from...
Proven Tips, Tools and Strategies To Teach English Language Learners, Part. 1
Immigrant Children and Public Education The number of immigrant children in American schools is quite literally growing by the day. It’s estimated that children of immigrants represent 25% of the K-12 population in the United States and that number has jumped...