Special Needs, Different Abilities

The Interactive Method for Teaching and Learning

By: Marjorie S. Schiering

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eText | 24 July 2019 | Edition Number 1

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This book describes the Interactive Method (IM) for teaching different abilities, special needs, and all learners. It involves hand’s-on techniques for retention of curriculum and the teaching of thinking; from the elementary through college years. Types of comprehension are defined along with how memory works. Chapters address types of special needs and defines the term and different abilities, in conjunction with creating lessons that result in memory acquisition and transference to personal success on tests or exams, as well as daily situations regarding experiential learning. Also offered are entry level means of instruction for developing a sense of self-confidence, efficacy, reliance and skills necessary for future learning challenges. In conjunction with this is the Reciprocal Thinking Skills Cognition to Metacognition Chart for identification and application of what one is thinking when engaged in the aforementioned IM. A few examples of this are provided through a listing and explanation of the values of this method, lesson objectives and application of these. Personal narratives are provided by teachers and/or parents of children with different abilities before the author’s closing comments respective of one’s being enough and practice of providing lift-up statements to encourage student learners in the academic and social cognition environments.

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This activity-based workbook is an asset to everyone that reads it, as it states, “We are all teachers of something.” It is invaluable, in that it includes activities that can be used in multiple ways, whether that is to interactively teach, learn, or provide general information. Readers of this work will benefit, as they observe how students can be engaged in activity-based learning, and come to be aware of what thinking skills apply to each activity. Also, at the end of the workbook, there are personal stories from former special needs students, teachers or their parents. Most important about this writing is that of celebrating student differences. If one life lesson can be taken from this book, it is to realize that we are all enough, just as we are, and that we are capable of anything to which we set our minds. Teaching those ideas are two of the strengths of this book on differentiation of instruction.