Lesson 10, Chapter 10

This week we talked a lot about how to help the student learn by using different strategies and acronyms. These acronyms will help students remember different strategies through school so that they will be able to succeed. By memorizing these strategies they will better be able to learn without relying on others and the teacher.

As a future educator in special education I will be able to help my students learn these basic strategies so that in the future as they go throughout their school years they will have the ability to learn and stay more caught up with their peers. A child with a disability has a 10 to 1 fail rate compared to those that do not have a disability. This means that they have a harder time learning and remembering what they are taught. It will be my job to teach my students to the best of their ability so that they will be able to have more success.

We got together in groups during class to share some of these strategies and show the different ways that we can use them in our future careers. My group chose to do the WWW What=2 and How=2 strategy and made it work for second graders. Our group said that to modify and teach this in the best way we would teach the who, what, when and where and then work together and discuss the other components of this strategy. We thought if there was a handout with pictures to help remind students what they needed to remember then they would be able to know better what they needed to know to answer these questions. To put this strategy into practice we would then read a book to the class and let them fill out the different parts by writing or drawing the who, what, when and where.

I really enjoyed this activity in class because it helped me see that there are so many different ways that these strategies can be modified to what we need. It showed us how no matter what we are teaching or doing with these strategies, we can make them work in our favor so we can help the students.