Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on November 21, 2007 - 17:02.
I am studying to work with children who have dyslexia. I am already realizing through my lesson planning and the time constraints of doing therapy with children that "newbees" desperately need mentoring from their veteran peers. No newbee wants to be shadowing their veteran peers for the rest of their career as
some may think but there must be a set period according to one's need for the "newbee" to be networking and learning various teaching techniques with multisensory methods. I recently borrowed an idea from my daughter's teacher for example. She did biography boxes with the fifth grade girls. First the girls had to pick out a biography of someone who made the world a better place to live in. For each chapter she had them write a summary of the chapter. Then she had them do a biography box (which is type of graphic organizer) that actually is presented as a cube made of paper with each side presenting important information about the person's life events and accomplishments etc. Things like this help me to provide interesting and meaningful ways to teach good reading comprehension and sequencing. It keeps the students excited about learning and pushing themselves to the next milestone. I hope when I start my alternative certification program, I will be welcomed into a group that provides little mini-workshops on various ideas for making learning meaningful and exciting.
I long to be back in the teaching environment and be around creative minds so we can feed off each others creativity.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Classroom management and multisensory teaching techniques
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on November 21, 2007 - 17:02.
I am studying to work with children who have dyslexia. I am already realizing through my lesson planning and the time constraints of doing therapy with children that "newbees" desperately need mentoring from their veteran peers. No newbee wants to be shadowing their veteran peers for the rest of their career as
some may think but there must be a set period according to one's need for the "newbee" to be networking and learning various teaching techniques with multisensory methods. I recently borrowed an idea from my daughter's teacher for example. She did biography boxes with the fifth grade girls. First the girls had to pick out a biography of someone who made the world a better place to live in. For each chapter she had them write a summary of the chapter. Then she had them do a biography box (which is type of graphic organizer) that actually is presented as a cube made of paper with each side presenting important information about the person's life events and accomplishments etc. Things like this help me to provide interesting and meaningful ways to teach good reading comprehension and sequencing. It keeps the students excited about learning and pushing themselves to the next milestone. I hope when I start my alternative certification program, I will be welcomed into a group that provides little mini-workshops on various ideas for making learning meaningful and exciting.
I long to be back in the teaching environment and be around creative minds so we can feed off each others creativity.
Happy Thanksgiving!