WHAT ARE THE BEST METHODS OF LEARNING FOR MENTALLY CHALLANGE STUDENT?

I had an adult student that could not read at all. I do not know how he could have graduated high school. I raised my concern with the owner of the school and I was told to work with him on my breaks, which I did. There was not any improvement. We set him up with a tutor off school time. He reenrolled and still no progress.The school dimissed him. How or when do you determin that a student is taking too much time away from the rest of the class because of a learning disability? It was hard to see the frustration with the other students.

Diverse Learning Groups brings different life experiences that make learning more interactive and fun

Doing a recap on the days previous lesson is a good way to get the students in a learning mode, to begin the days lesson. Also for the sake of repetition

What strategies have you used to accommodate different learning styles in your classroom?

For my students I like to give them a varitey of their testing skills, within their tests and or qizzes I give them some of each type of testing materials, such as multiple choice, matching, and true 7 false, then I have them do a short answer homework assignments which is actually in a essay type of worksheet.

I beleive that students should know where they stand in their learning comprehensive, because when they know where they stand in there assignments shows them not only what they are learning but also it improves there selfestem.

Has anyone noticed a shift in students learning styles over the years?

This type of student can be a challenge but yet so fullfilling, this class has enhanced my desire to continue working this type of student

lesson plans are very important and objectives to your teaching for student learning has to be cleared. course content must be cleared and extent of student learner must be given and avilable in different ways.

with my past experienced having started new classes helped me by preparing my objective for the class for example: my time table how long per chapter, break time, quiz, question and answer or any lab groups. with this class i have learned more technique to use in the future.

it has been a great practice for me teaching when i plan my teaching and prepare ahead of my teaching so i can present my teaching organize

as a new instructor i have learned that everyday we teach we learn new things to teach and continue to enhance our teaching more.

Having served as an adjunct instructor for both online and campus-based classrooms for the past two years, it has been quite interesting to compare and contrast various methods of teaching. During this course module it was very enlightening to review the specifics regarding low and high risk activities for active learning. In the future I will be much better prepared regarding how to effectively integrate both type of activities into the classroom setting. I came across an excellent quote that is very applicable to this course. “Student engagement is the product of motivation and active learning. It is a product rather than a sum because it will not occur if either element is missing.” ― Elizabeth F. Barkley

While this course claims that the average attention span is 15 to 18 minutes, I have some different information to offer. In another life, I was an executive at Presentation Technologies in Sunnyvale, Calif. We manufactured film recorders (in the days before LCD and DLP projectors) and participated actively in the corporate presentation world. Our research, developed from our own research and input from Psychologists and Anthropologists indicated the average adult attention span per topic in a lecture situation was in the 8 to 15 second range. POINT: make your point quick. The human mind is full of a considerable amount of other things, boy and girl friends, problems at home, problems at work, financial problems, etc etc.

In today's modern world, too many students want it all NOW, and do not understand the consequences of lack of performance. While I would agree it is important for a student to feel comfortable in their understanding of what was going to be required of them in a particular class or course of study, it think it pertinent they also understand the effort required and the consequences if the effort is not forth coming. This "effort", needless to say, varies depending on the subject matter and class - but needs to be shared with many younger college students. I have found it does help some of them take things a little more seriously. I would call this part of the motivation process.

The unexpected, and often unexpected responses and questions from students is often what makes teaching interesting - the idea that teaching should be strictly by the numbers does not provide for a flexible and interesting environment in my opinion.

As I completed module one, it is obvious to me that a large majority of this is common sense .. having stated that, it occurs to me that in the heat of battle we tend to forget some of that we already know. However, college professors are not required to have a "degree in (insert subject of your choice) education", and have missed the opportunity to be exposed to teaching courses and methodologies that others may have had.

Ok... how many of us can recite this: "This little piggy went to market..." We all know the story even though we have not uttered these words for years. When we learned these words we were engauged and having fun. A very powerful and elemental part of being an instructor is generating the students feelings of wanting to be there and upset when they have to miss due to unforseen circumstances. The Pygmyillon effect is a broad spectrum tool that is easily forgotten. As an instructor adopt the philosophy of "build it and they will come" attitude to making class engauging and challenging.

Technologies in some ways complicates our lives yet enhances the learning outcomes for our students. As witnessed in the adult learner classrooms, any attempt to incorporate technologies into the learning process is met with great excitement on behalf of the student. Gone are the days of litographs and overhead projectors; to get a students attention today and FACILITATE THEIR LEARNING, smart phones, Ipads/pods/phones have become the new medium of learning. You can run an experiment simply by providing directions on a sheet of paper for one half of the class and send the others the exact same information via email or text... guess who remembers the subject or proceedure... As instructors we need to stay abreast of new technologies and find the life-long learning process ourselves. :)