Teaching+strategies+for+diverse+learning+needs

This resource is a document developed for use by a group of colleagues that has been uploaded to the internet. The document is called “Teaching Strategies for Children with Additional Needs” and found from this link []

On page 7, which is the introduction, there is a simple mnemonic, INCLUDE, this is a series of steps an educator can take to begin to understand the adaptations that may be necessary to meet the diverse needs in a classroom. Teachers can use this as a first step in __how__ they are going to cope with an individual.

Page V begins the tips that teachers can utilise to make the most of their classrooms. These are just general tips, for example, linking the learning to personal experience. The page then continues to numerous lists of adaptations which can be made by a teacher depending on the difficulty a student is facing. There are adaptation options for students facing difficulties in reading, writing, speaking, attending, hearing seeing, following rules, understanding new concepts, retaining and retrieving information, representing new learning in assessment, motor skills/mobility/posture maintenance/manipulation of material/organising and working with high ability learners on page IX. This part of the document has several dot points for each of the above potential additional needs. It provides a great stepping stone to either give an educator ideas to try and to also give them that first base to then build on ideas provided in the document.

There is a lot more information in the document that is well worth looking through for ideas.