How to adapt your teaching strategies to student needs

1. Changing lives, opening minds
Theoretical Outlines
Workshop
16.02.2015
Prof. Arleta Tascau
New Compenteces, For a European School
2014-1-RO01-KA101-001375

2. While we are all in the same room,
we are not in the same place...

4. Changing lives, opening minds
“There is no one best way to educate all
children. Indeed, the biggest mistake of
past centuries has been to treat all
children as if they were variants of the
same individual and thus to feel justified in
teaching them the same subjects in the
same ways.”
(Howard Gardner)
New Compenteces, For a European School
2014-1-RO01-KA101-001375

5. Changing lives, opening minds
New Compenteces, For a European School
2014-1-RO01-KA101-001375
How to adapt your
teaching strategies to
student needs

6. Changing lives, opening minds
Not “another thing to do...”
...but rather “a different way of doing”!
New Compenteces, For a European School
2014-1-RO01-KA101-001375

7. What Is Involved
in Adapting the
Curriculum
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Changing lives,opening minds

8. Changing lives, opening minds
Golden Rule: Be a Good Organiser!
New Compenteces, For a European School
2014-1-RO01-KA101-001375

9. Changing lives, opening minds
1.Instructional Strategies
2.Instructional Materials
3.Curricular Content
4.Assessment Practices

10. Changing lives, opening minds
1.Adapting Instructional Strategies
A change in the way a teacher teaches

11. •Incorporating the use of demonstrations or role play
•Utilizing teacher presentation cues
(gestural, visual or verbal) to emphasize key concepts
•Scaffolding key concepts to be learnt
•Getting learners more involved in the learning process
through the implementation of every pupil response
techniques (response cards, thumbs up/thumbs down)
•The incorporation of manipulatives for learners’ use
•Diversifying the selection of groupings so as not to rely
solely on large groups/whole class instruction and
independent seatwork arrangements
•Varying instructional design, to include a variety of small
group and cooperative learning activities
•Providing a learner(s) with curriculum content through
means other than traditional written text

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2. Adapting Instructional Materials
1. Adjusting the readability level of written material
2. Enhancing critical features of the content within the
materials themselves
3. Designing materials with features that appeal to sensory
modalities other than visual/auditory
4. Selecting alternate instructional materials for their
durability or safety features

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A must!

14. Adapting curricular content involves
varying what is taught – that is, the
complexity and nature of content
presented during the course of a unit
of study.This type of curriculum
adaptation results in an adjustment of
the cognitive demand
of a learning task for
a particular learner(s).
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2014-1-RO01-KA101-001375

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16. Adapting Assessment Practices
 Refers to alterations in the way in
which a teacher gets information from
a learner(s) in the class. These involve
a change in the learner’s instructional
output.
 Offers learners the opportunity to
respond in a nontraditional manner, in
some way(s) other than through typical
oral recitation or written expression.
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2014-1-RO01-KA101-001375
Changing lives, opening minds

17. Alternative learner responses:
 Collage
 Sculpture/Handicrafts
 Pantomime
 Dramatic portrayal
 Musical composition
 Motoric demonstration
 Photographic presentation
 Graphic display

19. Changing lives, opening minds
Thank you!
 And now...
 Some workshops!
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New Competences, For a European School
2014-1-RO01-KA101-001375

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Workshop
16.02.2015
Prof. Arleta Tascau
New Competences, For a European School
2014-1-RO01-KA101-001375