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A Guide to Learning Styles

A Guide to Learning Styles

untitled If you have a strong preference for Kinesthetic learning you should use some or all of the following: all your senses - sight, touch, taste, smell, hearing ... laboratories field trips field tours examples of principles teachers, coaches and trainers who give real-life examples applications hands-on approaches (like in computing) trial and error collections of things - rock types, plants, shells, grasses, case studies... exhibits, samples, photographs... recipes - solutions to problems, previous exam or test papers. SWOT - Study without tears Reduce your notes into a package that you can learn by reducing them (every three pages down to one page). Your notes to help your learning may be poor because the topics were not 'concrete' or 'relevant'. You will remember the "real" things that happened. Put plenty of examples into your summary. Write practice answers, paragraphs...

Addressing Student Problem Behavior By: Mary Magee Quinn, Robert A. Gable, Robert B. Rutherford, and C. Michael Nelson An IEP team's introduction to functional behavioral assessment and behavior intervention plans The object of the IDEA is not to arbitrarily mandate change, but to provide an environment conducive to the education of all students, including those with disabilities. Educators have long understood that behavior difficulties can keep students from functioning productively in class. The requirements specified in the 1997 Amendments to the IDEA that pertain to functional behavioral assessments and positive behavioral intervention plans and supports as they relate to the responsibilities of the IEP team and to the IEP itself are the subject of this paper. For readers who are unfamiliar with these procedures, there is a sampling of resources available for further study. This initial discussion is not intended to provide a complete course of training, but to offer an overview of some of the techniques involved.

Lifehacker The Differentiator Try Respondo! → ← Back to Byrdseed.com The Differentiator The Differentiator is based on Bloom's Taxonomy, Kaplan and Gould's Depth and Complexity, and David Chung's product menu. Try It In: French Dutch • Tweet It • Like Byrdseed • Pin It Students will judge the ethics of the [click to edit] using a textbook and create an essay in groups of three. Revised Bloom's Taxonomy adapted from "A Taxonomy for Learning,Teaching, and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives" by Anderson and Krathwohl Depth and Complexity adapted from The Flip Book by Sandra N. Depth Big Idea Unanswered Questions Ethics Patterns Rules Language of the Discipline Essential Details Trends Complexity Multiple Points Of View Change Over Time Across the Disciplines Imperatives Origin Convergence Parallels Paradox Contribution Key Words Consequences Motivations Implications Significance Adapted from David Chung and The Flip Book, Too by Sandra N. Group Size One Two Three Four

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