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Nancy NicholsLicensed Specialist in School PsychologyEducational DiagnosticianFirelight Books800-975-0054 [email protected]
SEE IT, HEAR IT, FEEL IT!
ACCOMMODATING
THROUGH MULTISENSORY
TEACHING
Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
John Dewey
Anxiety impairs performance. Attention and learning increases when there is relaxed awareness.
Use anxiety-reduction techniques or "anxiety zappers" to increase awareness.
Anxiety zappers use positive emotions to enhance learning and motivation.
Other ways to use positive emotions to enhance learning and motivation include:
•something fun,•exciting,•happy,•loving, or •even a bit frightening!
GOAL increase student learningHow? improve attention relaxed awareness increase motivation multisensory teaching
Positive results include fewer discipline problems higher test scores more high school graduates young adults with more skills happier, healthier teachers with fewer gray hairs
What Are Learning Styles?Learning styles are the way we perceive, process, and retain information.
There is no right or wrong learning style. Learning styles have nothing to do with intelligence.Most people have one or two main learning styles.
SIX MAIN LEARNING STYLES VISUAL/LINGUISTIC use of written language.
THE BOOKWORM!
VISUAL/SPATIAL able to perceive the visual. THE DREAMER!
VERBAL/LINGUISTIC use of written and spoken language. THE CHATTERBOX!
AURAL understands auditory stimuli. THE MUSICIAN!
TACTILE learns through touch. THE HUGGER!
KINESTHETIC learns through large, whole-body movements. THE ATHLETE!
What is your
learning style?
Common Phrases . . . Visual, Aural, Verbal/Linguistic, or
Tactile/kinesthetic?
It’s coming through loud and clear. Let’s look at it differently. I have good feelings about this. Let me spell it out for you. That sounds about right. Tell me word for word… That’s music to my ears. I can’t get a grip on this… I see what you are talking about That rings a bell. In other words… That feels right to me. Stay in touch. I can’t quite picture it. My gut is telling me…
Experienced, effective teachers know this: Different students learn differently.
Each student is an individual, a real person with his or her own strengths and stressors.
Research indicates that "all students [have] significantly better achievements with multisensory approaches" (Martini, 1986).
Maximize the learning experience by incorporating sight, sound, touch, and movement into daily lessons.
Memory training and executive functioning opportunities are easy ways to offer differentiated instruction.
Why?• Students are more attentive
and lessons are more meaningful.
• Students have a more positive attitude towards learning.
• Behavior improves and student achievement increases.
• Students learn more!
Effective teachers use a
multisensory teaching approach.
What does a multisensory classroom feel like?
It feels good!
It is a safe place. Anxiety is minimized by letting students know what to expect. Daily schedules and classroom rules are posted. Students are respected as individuals. They have choices. Eliminate fears. Immediate feedback fosters feelings of security and trust. It also allows students to immediately correct mistakes. As in sports, mistakes are a natural part of practice.
A nurturing environment allows students’ brains to work better.
Make your classroom a comfort zone!
Busting the MythBusting the Myth
What are teachers required to What are teachers required to teach?teach?
The standards.The standards.
The materials and the methods The materials and the methods that a teacher uses to teach the that a teacher uses to teach the
standards is a professional standards is a professional decision.decision.
What else?What else?
Differentiated instruction!Differentiated instruction!Accommodations!Accommodations!
Intervention!Intervention!Multisensory Integration!Multisensory Integration!Response to Intervention!Response to Intervention!
All teachers are required to All teachers are required to meet the student at his or meet the student at his or
her level and teach the her level and teach the standards.standards.
Response To InterventionResponse To Intervention prevents academic prevents academic failure through failure through 1. early intervention1. early intervention
2. frequent progress measurement2. frequent progress measurement3. intensive research-based instructional 3. intensive research-based instructional
interventions interventions
Students who do not show a response to effective Students who do not show a response to effective interventions are likely to have learning disabilities interventions are likely to have learning disabilities and to be in need of special education. and to be in need of special education.
THE MULTISENSORY LESSON The more styles you address, the
easier the instruction will be received by the learners.
Be enthusiastic! Model respect. Be consistent. Praise often!
Employing pictorial objects and trademarked TouchPoints, TouchMath teaches children to associate numerals with real values (number quantities). BRIDGING QUANTITIES WITH SYMBOLS By third grade and beyond, children having difficulty with math usually have the same two basic problems: 1.They are not connecting number quantities with abstract symbols. They can count five apples, and they usually identify numerals such as 5. But they have not grasped the connections between the two concepts. The numeral 5 is just a squiggly line on paper. 2.Many have memorized facts, but they do not yet understand how they get the answers. Thus, they forget time and time again and, they guess at answers.
TouchMath
CHISENBOP is a ancient method of doing basic arithmetic using your fingers.Soooo easy!
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Busting the MythBusting the Myth
Most teachers think that Most teachers think that they must teach the they must teach the textbook.textbook.
Let’s think about teaching Let’s think about teaching about flowers.about flowers.
High school biology High school biology standards typically include standards typically include a standard requiring a standard requiring students to learn about students to learn about the parts of a flower.the parts of a flower.
How can we How can we accommodataccommodat
e and still e and still use this text?use this text?
What about previewing vocabulary before reading?
What about paired reading?
What about providing an outline?
What about What about your seriously your seriously at-risk, high at-risk, high
school students school students who really can’t who really can’t read the regular read the regular
curriculum?curriculum?
““The Parts of Flowers”The Parts of Flowers” “Structure of a flower”“Structure of a flower”Both texts address the standard.Both texts address the standard.
What do you see?What do you see?
““Flowers” “The Parts of Flowers” “Structure of a Flowers” “The Parts of Flowers” “Structure of a flower”flower”
Each address the standard.Each address the standard.
What do you see?What do you see?
Use pictures and words that catch their attention.
Phrases: dead things “kissing” plant The Game
Repeat main ideas.
Employing pictorial objects and trademarked TouchPoints, TouchMath teaches children to associate numerals with real values (number quantities). BRIDGING QUANTITIES WITH SYMBOLS By third grade and beyond, children having difficulty with math usually have the same two basic problems: 1.They are not connecting number quantities with abstract symbols. They can count five apples, and they usually identify numerals such as 5. But they have not grasped the connections between the two concepts. The numeral 5 is just a squiggly line on paper. 2.Many have memorized facts, but they do not yet understand how they get the answers. Thus, they forget time and time again and, they guess at answers.
TouchMath
CHISENBOP is a ancient method of doing basic arithmetic using your fingers.Soooo easy!
0 1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 9© Andy Harris Indiana University / Purdue University, Indianapolis