Differentiating instruction for at-risk students
Subtitle: what to do and how to do it
By: Rita Dunn and Andrea Honigsfeld.
Contributors: Honigsfeld, Andrea, 1965-
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Education
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9781578869824; 9781578869831; 9781578869848
Subjects: Effective teaching -- United States; Teacher-student relationships -- United States; Special education -- United States; Children with disabilities -- Education -- United States; Children with social disabilities -- Education -- United States; Learning disabled children -- Education -- United States
Description: Synopsis: When the activities described herein are introduced to students whose learning styles they match, most will demonstrate strong abilities to learn and remember new and difficult content within the first four months of beginning if not earlier. This book is written to prevent more children from becoming at risk and to help those who already have fallen behind their classmates and do not enjoy school.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Who are students at risk of academic failure and how should we teach them?; title: What is learning style?; title: Teaching global students globally; title: Redesigning classrooms for increased comfort and concentration; title: Teaching tactual students tactually; title: Teaching kinesthetic students kinesthetically; title: Teaching peer-motivated students with small-group techniques; title: Teaching at-risk students with contract activity packages; title: Teaching visual/tactual students who need structure with programmed learning sequences; title: Teaching unmotivated students with multi-sensory instructional packages; title: Experimenting with learning-style instructional strategies in practitioner-oriented steps; title: Research on the Dunn and Dunn Learning-Styles Model : how do we know it works?