Glencoe+Online+-+Career+Education

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Glencoe Online - Career Education provides advice and strategies for teachers who have student in their class with a disability. It states that our role as teachers is to create an environment in which all students can participate to the best of their abilities. This site states that the greatest challenge is to provide a positive learning environment for the students, and to use a varitey of teaching styles, as it is important to cater for students with varied learning styles (Teaching Strategies, 2010). It is important to explore, research and determine the needs of students to identify the areas of curriculum that may present barriers to them. This site then adivses teachers to modify your teaching strategies in order to eliminate those barriers. The site gives strategies to help teachers identify students with special needs, and offers strategies for teachers to plan lessons and presentations, so that all students have the equal opportunity to experience success in the classroom (Teaching Strategies, 2010).

The site gives an overview and a list of teaching strategies for students who are gifted, have behavioral disorders, learning disabilites, physical impairments, visual impairments, hearing impairments and speech impairments.

For Example:

Gifted

//Overview// Although no formal definition exists, gifted students can be described as having above average ability, task commitment, and creativity. They rank in the top 5 percent of their classes. They are usually capable of divergent thinking. Students in your class who consistently finish work more quickly than others and who have above average ability, task commitment, and creativity may be considered gifted.

//Teaching Strategies// (Teaching Strategies, 2010)
 * Emphasize concepts, theories, relationships, ideas, and generalizations.
 * Let students express themselves in a variety of ways, including drawing, creative writing, or acting.
 * Make arrangements for gifted students to work on independent projects.
 * Make arrangements for gifted students to take selected subjects early.
 * Encourage gifted students to take on a wide variety of enrichment and independent practice activities that will put them in contact with people in the "real world" and allow them to observe the daily practices that lead to success

This website will help teachers alot as it is very direct, gives great strategies when dealing with students with special needs, and has many helpful tips for teachers who may be finding it difficult teaching a class with students who have a variety of learning styles.

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