Marjorie S. Schiering

Special Needs, Different Abilities (eBook, ePUB)

The Interactive Method for Teaching and Learning

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book describes the Interactive Method (IM) for teaching different abilities, special needs, and all learners. It involves hand's-on techniques for retention of curriculum and the teaching of thinking; from the elementary through college years. Types of comprehension are defined along with how memory works. Chapters address types of special needs and defines the term and different abilities, in conjunction with creating lessons that result in memory acquisition and transference to personal success on tests or exams, as well as daily situations regarding experiential learning. Also offered are entry level means of instruction for developing a sense of self-confidence, efficacy, reliance and skills necessary for future learning challenges. In conjunction with this is the Reciprocal Thinking Skills Cognition to Metacognition Chart for identification and application of what one is thinking when engaged in the aforementioned IM. A few examples of this are provided through a listing and explanation of the values of this method, lesson objectives and application of these. Personal narratives are provided by teachers and/or parents of children with different abilities before the author's closing comments respective of one's being enough and practice of providing lift-up statements to encourage student learners in the academic and social cognition environments.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781475849950
• Artikelnr.: 59225417

Autorenporträt

Marjorie S. Schiering' has taught first, third, fifth, sixth, undergraduate, and graduate courses for five decades. She is an international presenter and children's book author. She has written seven textbooks, continually weaving in teaching creativity, using interactive methods, and means for being a person of good character. She teaches with an emphasis on students realizing their academic success, increasing their desire to learn, and meeting their academic and socialization needs.

Inhaltsangabe

Prelude
Foreword: Patricia Eckardt and Madeline Craig
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part one: information gathering and distribution concerning special needs
and different ability learners
Chapter One: Reaching/Teaching Varied Learners
Chapter Two: Response to Intervention, Individual Education Plan and
Classroom Organization
Chapter Three: Individual Processing Style and Social Cognition
Chapter Four: The Interactive Method, Student Engagement and Self-Efficacy
Chapter Five: Memories and Interactive Learning Techniques
Chapter Six:Interactive Learning Technique Pluses, Leadership Building, and
Alternative Means of Assessment
Chapter Seven: The Reciprocity of Thinking
Chapter Eight: The Cognitive Collective: Thinking and Feeling
Chapter Nine: Definition and Examples of Reciprocal Thinking Phases' Skills
Part two: different ways of teaching, personal commentaries, and author's
closing thoughts
Chapter Ten:The IM's Self-Reliance and the "How To" of Teaching Thinking
Chapter Eleven: Objectives of the Interactive Method and its Components
Chapter Twelve: Two Personal Perspectives Addressing Special Education
Disabilities, Differences and Diversity: Maggie Blair
Autism Awareness: Author Interview of a Different Abilities Child's Parent:
Kevin Cooney
Chapter Thirteen: Commentary and Personal Experience: Teaching and Being
Special Needs
Commentaries and Personal Experiences: Special Needs and Different
Abilities
Commentary: Engaging Students with Exceptionalities: Patricia Mason
A Teacher with Epilepsy: From Childhood through Retirement: Marc Hoberman
Chapter Fourteen: Author's Summative Sharing: Classroom Comfort Zone
References
About the Author