Strategies in Teaching Students with Special Needs

2. A Method of Teaching that relies heavily
upon showing the learner a model
performance that he/she should match
or pass after he/she has seen a
presentation that is live, filmed or
electronically operated

3. A Traditional Classroom Strategy.
“doing” method
Demonstrate the procedures step-by-
step in a job task, using the exact
physical procedures if possible.

4. Matches EXPLANATION to
MANIPULATION

6. TEACHER
INSTRUCTOR
LEARNER
STUDENT
LEARNER
PARTICIPANT

7. To achieve Psychomotor and
Cognitive Objectives

8. Introduction
Objectives of the lesson are stated
The teacher may be called a
demonstrator
He/shedemonstrates the activity
before the student that is to be
developed

9. Development
Students try to initiate the
demonstrated activity.
If there is any query, the teacher
tries to satisfy them by further
demonstration and illustrations

10. Integration
The teacher integrates all the
activities and then these activities
are rehearsed, revised and
evaluated.

11. Learning by doing maxim is
followed

12. Skills can be developed by
imitation

13. The perception helps in
imitation
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14. applied mainly in technical/training
institutes. In teacher education program, it
is used to develop skills in the student
teacher. At school level, a teacher applies it
in teaching science, biology, nature study
arts and crafts.

15. Plan. Plan. Plan
Use training aids
“hands on” practice

17. It helps in involving various sense to
make learning permanent.
Though, teacher behavior is autocratic,
he invites thecooperation of pupils in
teaching learning process

18. It develops interest in the
learners and motivates them for their
active participation.
It helps in achieving psychomotor
objectives

19. Any simple or complex skill becomes
easy to understand
There is an immediate application of
learning
The teacher gets to instantly see and
correctthe mistakes of students

21. It can be used only for the skills subject
Only the attention of the learners is
invited towards the activity
demonstrated, they are not free to
discuss about it.

22. Due to poor economic conditions of
the government schools, there is a
scarcityof audio-visual aids and
equipments, and the teachers are not
so creative to produce handmand
models for the demonstration.

23. There is a general lack of sincerity and
diligence among teachers who wish to
complete the syllabus/syllabi at the
earliest without puttingsincere efforts.

24. Time consuming
Communication barriers
becomes a failure when there is a great
number of students