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How to help struggling students? (by Lucy), Identification of Students…
How to help struggling students? (by Lucy)
Collecting the evidence: Communicate with the subject teachers and write down struggling children's learning difficulties and other symptoms.
Teacher will communicate with school's psychologist and get support.
Psychologist will meet parents and suggest how to support the their child at home.
Psychologist and teacher will have the student profile to tract the student.
If needed, suggest further outside medical support.
Make an individual plan with parent for struggling kid.
Follow the plan and have a teacher, parents, psychologist online meeting every 2 weeks.
Change the plan based on the meeting.
Base on their symptoms, set a comfortable and suitable seating and learning environment for them. Do a survey and see what type of learner he/she is.
Set appropriate learning objectives for them.
Differentiate the process: Group together with a "class buddy" who can work together with the student during group assignments.
Differentiate the product
Give them differentiated individual classwork and homework (difficulty level) and more time to do.
Let them choose their ways to present the assessment.
Use different teaching strategies.
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Use assistive technologies to help their learning.
Use multi sensory learning
Use audios, videos, pictures, songs, dance movement etc to meet their ways of learning.
Set different learning stations.
Pre-teach vocabulary
provide repetition
establish routines
Teach to interests
Use checklists for class activities, homework and lessons.
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Develop good relationship with students
Provide graphic organizer
Psychologist will meet with the struggling student to have one to one talk.
Communicating with their parents and ask about their prior history. (academic, family, behavior, etc.)
Identify struggling students （Based on the interview from cohort member Apple)
All students should be assessed at the beginning and throughout the year (Identification of Students with Learning Disabilities, n.d.).
Difficulty maintaining attention with directly communicating
Difficulty maintaining attention during tasks or game activities
Easily distracted by extraneous stimuli
Difficulty following instructions, fail to complete school assignments, tasks or tests.
Difficulty playing or engaging in leisure activities quietly, or wait in turn.
Talk too much, and keep interrupting others.
Lack of social skills，and always alone in the corner.
Repetitive actions or strange language patterns
Identification of Students with Learning Disabilities. (n.d.). New York State Education Department.