Steps to help students with learning difficulties

Differentiation

Visual cues, reminders, behavioural plan to assist with management

Allow children multiple engagement opportunities

Offer lesson in different ways - visual, kinesthetic, audio etc

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Response to intervention (RTI) Tier 1, 2 and 3 -
Tier 1 - classroom teacher

  • Tier 2 - Small group intervention
  • Tier 3 - Intense intervention

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Signs to look at for

Leave classroom regularly

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Not making progress on a task

  • Problem following multi-step instruction

Seek negative attention

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Find ways to distract to avoid doing the work

Steps for Referral

1 - Collect Data
2 - Show evidence that Tier 1 and 2 weren't successful
3 - Conduct psychological educational evaluation

How to involve Parent/ Guardian

Clear Communication - share the struggles you are noticing
How the child has been receiving support in the classroom

Parents can support the plan by continuting the plan at home

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Co-Construct the IEP once child has been moved to Tier 3

Solomie Wasse

Ways to assist a student in my classroom?

  • Gather data re: is the child and EAL student? Is the child in need to speech therapy? Is the child in need to more time to complete or understand a task? Can this child benefit from small group activities or would it be better as a one-to-one assitance?

-if an EAL student see if we can use the home language to help (find a student or teacher who speaks the same language)

  • Use google translate
  • Invite the child to draw their thoughts, feelings and ideas

If the child is in need of speech assistance, invite speech therapist to spend sometime with the child to asses and give us teacher pointers on how we can help the child in the classroom before having to refer to seek speech services

If the child needs more assistance on completing a task or understanding the lesson - set up a one-to-one time or small group to help spend more time working on understand the lesson. Bring in visuals, introduce manipulatives etc