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Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to present my program, "Please Help Me With My Homework," to a group of parents and students in Chester, NH. The Chester Academy Parent Support group invited me to talk to parents and students about simple strategies for memorizing facts, keeping homework fun [...]
There are pros and cons to co-teaching and it is important to understand both before deciding whether it will work for you and your classroom.
In Ms. Crissy Amerson's sixth grade Language Arts classroom, she and her paraprofessional, Linda Maldanado, chunked the lesson plan integrating visuals, video and group process to maintain student engagement and focus. She applied several strategies that we had discussed the previous day to enhance and differentiate her language arts lesson on adjectives.
As a teacher, learn how to adapt your approaches, and to differentiate for your students, in ways that benefit them at whatever level of development they happen to be. Implementing successful RTI at the secondary level is a challenge that yields rich rewards.