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Education: Teaching Math to Students With Disabilities
Working with students with disabilities (SWD) can be quite challenging, especially for teachers working on a full-time basis. Almost every classroom today has one or more students dealing with either an emotional, educational, or physical disability; and teachers are likely to find themselves looking for resources or information that would enable them teach all their students in the most effective way. There are numerous special-education websites from which teachers and instructors can obtain information or lessons on teaching their respective subjects. Five websites available to the math special education teacher have been discussed in the subsequent sections of this text.
Teacher Resources
Teachers Helping Teachers: http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/
This online resource provides teaching information for all teachers, with a 'Special Education' segment that provides a number of activities meant specifically for instilling basic conceptual skills in learners with special needs. The activities are submitted by teachers from different parts of the country, and include study skills, current events, geography, math, and reading lessons for learners in different grades (Starr). The 'Math Game' activity, for instance, helps students with learning disabilities to improve their problem-solving skills through sportsmanship and teamwork. There also are activities geared at improving the mathematical skills of the whole class; the Basic Practice Model, for instance, teaches mathematics...
Its 'Special Education' section leads to a linked 'Math Instruction and Intervention' segment, which provides information on, among other things, how to design and deliver intensive interventions in mathematics for K-12 grades, and how to incorporate these interventions into the teaching module so that students learn from each other and make the most out of their theoretical mathematical capabilities.
iv) The Access Center: www.k8accesscenter.org
This site identifies effective resource programs that provide the technical grip needed to build effective action out of reliable evidence. The 'Special Education' section presents information in the form of research studies on programs that could help instructors individualize behavioral, mathematics, and reading programs for students with learning disabilities; and methods of implementing the said programs to ensure persistent learning.
v) LD Online: www.ldonline.org
This site focuses on the instruction of students with ADHD and learning disabilities. It includes an 'Especially for Educators' section, and therein a 'Teaching Mathematics' segment that provides a number of articles with information on the components of effective mathematics instruction; software for mathematics instructions; technology-supported math instruction for learners with disabilities; and a 'Number Sense' activity for assisting an integrated class realize its full…
Works Cited
Oldham County Schools. "Instructional Resources for Math." Oldham County Schools, n.d. Web. 17 August 2014 http://www.oldham.k12.ky.us/files/intervention_resources/Math/Instructional_Resources_for_Math.pdf
Starr, Linda. "Teaching Special Kids: Online Resources for Teachers." Education World, 2010. Web. 17 August 2014 from http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr139.shtml
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